This is a picture of our poor and ancient heat pump. We have no idea how long it has been working outside and fulfilling the house's heating and cooling needs. For all we know it might be original to the house and that was built back in 1978.
Most of the info on the side plate that has model number and other information has been worn off with time. We still do have the brand name on it.
You can see she has been through a lot. Not sure if any of the blue is the original coloring, or if it was a base under the green finish.
When we last got it fixed we noticed that this had happened to the diagram at the top. While I have never seen the inside of a new heat-pump system, I'm fairly sure they don't come with one of these any more.
Here is most of what makes it tick. There are also the other parts that make the air cold and what-have-you, but this is the brain of her. Very simple and straight forward. I like her because she feels like she would be easy to fix.
I went to go look and see if I could find anything more about the color and found this awesome 1977 ad. The circuit board looks different from mine, but the shape of the model looks the same.
We are going to be looking to quotes for a new one, but right now she isn't going anywhere.
Back on the knitting front, there is more hat. The one problem I have with hats is that I'm never sure how long to make the body of the hat and when to start the decreasing. I have a chart that tells me about how tall it should be be once done, but unless I've worked a pattern before then I don't know how tall the crown will be once done.
I've usually gone with something that feels longer because you can always roll the brim up as many times as they need to. A hat isn't as useful when it is too short and doesn't keep your ears warm.
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