Letter: Boiler Plate Blues: Fall 2018
A version of this article appears in the Fall 2018 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
We do subscribe to Home Energy down here at the bottom of the world.
Browsing through your Spring 2018 issue I spotted this example of a US furnace nameplate. (See “Static Pressure Testing 101, HE Spring, ’18, p. 22. See Figure 1.)
I couldn’t help but chuckle – what a mess! Btu, Horse Power, and Watts all on one nameplate.
Figure 1
HR? WC? Does this really mean inches of water column? CFM… altogether nicely mixed with SI units.
Can I ask you—does this not drive you crazy over there in the United States?
Best wishes for moving forward with this eventually.
Stephan Rupp
Building Physicist
Porirua, New Zealand
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