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I've just finished installing the last little bit of a an interesting water
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system here that I thought you might like to see. This is probably the most
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compact water arrangement you can get. That tank there is a small tank just
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about as small as a pressure tank as you can get. This red valve here is called a
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cycle stop and I've made videos about that before. This particular situation
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has the water line coming in from the floor and this cabin is raised on
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pillars. So here's the water line here and it goes down into a four inch ABS
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pipe. This is actually a toilet flange here and the water pipe goes down so
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it's the outside of that ABS pipe is completely exposed and then it goes
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underground under the soil such as it is which is about maybe 18 inches deep
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or so all the way to the well. Now that's not enough of an arrangement to keep
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this water line from freezing. So what we did when we installed the water line is
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we ran two of these heating cables. We really only need one at a time
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but you're not going to know if it's broken until it's February sometime and
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your water line freezes up. So we installed two at once but actually
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the heating cable doesn't have to run nearly as often as you think and that's
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what this device here is for. It's made by a company called Inkbird. Those
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numbers are pulsating just because of the video camera they don't actually pulsate but this unit plugs into a power supply here and it has another plug
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connection here so the heating cable plugs into the the plug outlet that
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comes from the Inkbird unit and the Inkbird unit does two things. First of
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all it measures the current temperature so that's the temperature you see here
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8.3 degrees Celsius. That's the temperature at a probe which which goes
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down here. I've attached the probe to this length of pipe here just so I could
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push it down to the optimum level. It's just a little probe on the end of a wire
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and this temperature here is the temperature at which the Inkbird will
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turn the power on. Now I've adjusted it ahead of time so that it's going to heat
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two and a half degrees higher than the set temperature so it should kick off at
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seven and a half degrees Celsius and then it won't kick on again until that
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sensor detects a temperature that that drops below five degrees Celsius. I could
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have probably adjusted it closer to the freezing point of zero but we'll just
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see how it works. It's working fine now the power is not on and I don't want it
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to be on but we'll monitor that temperature and see how it works and I
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think it's gonna save a lot of power. It's gonna stop things from overheating
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unnecessarily down there and I'll let you know if it works
