I have a room that the wife is using as an office. It's the longest run of the ductwork, and it faces west with two large windows, and it gets warm and stuffy in the afternoons. It's a Lennox system, and doesn't have any zone capabilities, and I also can't use any Zwave thermostats due to the proprietary digital communications between the thermostat and the units. I had a HVAC guy who poo-pood on putting a booster fan on this run. Of course his suggestion was to install inline dampers on the 10 runs and do a flow survey with an airflow meter and 'balance' the system. That sounds like a few thousand dollars.
I like my idea of installing an inline Fan and controlling it with Homeseer to be on when the room is occupied, and operating independent of the HVAC, and scavenging air from the other cooler rooms when the HVAC is off. His main complaint was that the fans are noisy. Well, maybe it shouldn't be running full tilt. So has anybody on here installed an inline Fan? What would be needed to install a variable speed Fan that could be controlled by Homeseer?
I like my idea of installing an inline Fan and controlling it with Homeseer to be on when the room is occupied, and operating independent of the HVAC, and scavenging air from the other cooler rooms when the HVAC is off. His main complaint was that the fans are noisy. Well, maybe it shouldn't be running full tilt. So has anybody on here installed an inline Fan? What would be needed to install a variable speed Fan that could be controlled by Homeseer?
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