Posted by JDEM on December 14, 2017 at 06:18:21 from (174.230.15.247):
Sometimes I worry I am getting senile. This last goof takes the cake. We shut down one of our houses for the winter a month ago. Northern Michigan. I just put in a new propane furnace and a non-vented wall propane heater. I keep the thermostat for the main furnace set at 45 degrees F. This is the first year we did not drain the plumbing and are trying to keep the house just above freezing instead. Thus the 30K BTU non-vented heater as backup when the power goes out (it goes out a lot).
We drive over there once a month to check on things and get a meter-reading to report to the power company (they do not read meters in the winter).
So, one month with near all electric devices turned off - and we have 1100 KWHs of usage. What the heck? Note I just installed the high-efficiency gas furnace but hard to believe it hardly uses any power. So I go around checking all the buildings.
I have three barns full for cars, trucks, tractors. Many batteries on battery-maintainers. Near 20 of them. I had first suspect somehow one went nuts on a bad battery?
Well - here is the answer. I cannot believe I did this! My IH B275 is parked with a hard-wired battery maintainer from Harbor Freight. I got it 10 years ago and it has been plugged in for all those 10 years with no issues. Last month I brush-hogged some corn stalks and then put the tractor away with a snow-blower on the back.
Guess I was in a hurry. There are two AC power cords attached to the tractor. One for the Harbor Freight battery maintainer. The other for a Katz 1500 watt circulating block heater. I plugged in the wrong cord! So for a full month that 1500 watt block heater ran. It was 5 degrees F yesterday and I assume it never shuts off. I am amazed it was still running and did not burn out.
We stopped at had lunch at "beach" of Lake Huron on the way home. Looks cold.
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