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Just thought I’d follow up. I have been very impressed with this smart vent system. Took a little while to get it rolling but I love having it. I want to order the vents for the rest of the house now and not just the bedrooms.
good to hear.
I've been looking at these now that summer is here and I find myself going room to room trying to readjust the vents to even out the cooling.
 
good to hear.
I've been looking at these now that summer is here and I find myself going room to room trying to readjust the vents to even out the cooling.
My Dallas house has insulated hard metal ducts installed (since 2007) in the crawl-space under the floor. There is a central manifold where the percentage of air can be controlled from one central place. That sounds great, but I have not seen that central manifold because the crawl space is tight, and the metal ducts make it difficult to move around on the dirt. A small shovel is a good idea in order to trench under the ducts.

Having duct airflow control at a central place, and with remote control would be great.
 
My Dallas house has insulated hard metal ducts installed (since 2007) in the crawl-space under the floor. There is a central manifold where the percentage of air can be controlled from one central place. That sounds great, but I have not seen that central manifold because the crawl space is tight, and the metal ducts make it difficult to move around on the dirt. A small shovel is a good idea in order to trench under the ducts.

Having duct airflow control at a central place, and with remote control would be great.
I have slab foundation, all my ducts are in the attic
 
Any electricians out there? Pros & cons against these new clips inside an outlet box vs wire nuts? They sure are handy

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I am not an electrician, but I have found the WAGO 221s to be extremely useful. Plenty of electricians with YouTube channels use and promote them.

The most useful features are to be able to implement design changes without ripping everything apart, the ability to inspect the work, a built in test port, and the ease/ability to mix wire types in the connection.

It you might expand in the future, you just use a larger WAGO so there is a spare position or two.
 
I have used them on some soffit lighting upgrades, no troubles, they are convenient. I've also seen posts from electricians not liking them, can't remember why.
 
Any electricians out there? Pros & cons against these new clips inside an outlet box vs wire nuts? They sure are handy

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recently had a bunch of electrical work/update done, the electrician used those in all the light switch boxes and wire nuts inside the connector boxes in the attic and the outlet boxes.

I asked him why he did that and best I can explain in terms I understand, the switches are like relays, the load placed on them is not going to be larger than the light it controls.

Whereas the outlets will have multiple items of different loads placed on them and he likes the more solid connection of wire to wire with the twist nut, in the metal connector boxes in the attic, same thing but also it saves money.
 
recently had a bunch of electrical work/update done, the electrician used those in all the light switch boxes and wire nuts inside the connector boxes in the attic and the outlet boxes.

I asked him why he did that and best I can explain in terms I understand, the switches are like relays, the load placed on them is not going to be larger than the light it controls.

Whereas the outlets will have multiple items of different loads placed on them and he likes the more solid connection of wire to wire with the twist nut, in the metal connector boxes in the attic, same thing but also it saves money.

That’s kinda what I observed when we had our kitchen done last year. Nuts in the boxes and those connectors in the fixture boxes
 
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