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### Open Tuesday
Opening time of the ground floor of K22 which contains the free shop, the foodsharing Fairteiler and (sometimes) the repair café / maker space. Default time is 3pm to 5pm.
### free shop/Verschenkeladen
### Free shop/Verschenkeladen
Room full of things to give away. Located in K22-0-3.
### Fairteiler
foodsharing term for a publicly accessible shelf or fridge in which food can be shared between strangers.
foodsharing term for a publicly accessible shelf or fridge in which food can be shared between strangers. There is one in Wenceslaigasse in Wurzen.
### Workaway
[Website](https://workaway.info) for people to find volunteer work all over the world. Kanthaus has a host profile on there.
### Projektverteiler
A mailing list for house projects and other alternative living concepts in Leipzig.
A mailing list for house projects and other alternative living concepts in and around Leipzig.
### HWR
[HWR](https://www.hwr-leipzig.org/) is short for 'Haus- und Wagenrat e.V.'. An association that offers guidance to house projects and trailer sites. They helped us aquire the houses in Kantstraße.
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[The LADEN](https://schweizerhaus-puechau.jimdo.com/der-laden-wurzen/) is an open art space run by the association [Schweizerhaus Püchau](https://schweizerhaus-puechau.jimdo.com/) that has been doing art empowerment workshops in the region since 2010.
### Villa Klug
Something between house project and flat share with tons of space. Slightly south of Wurzen, right on the bank of the Mulde river.
Something between house project and flat share with tons of space and nice people. Slightly south of Wurzen, right on the bank of the Mulde river.
### RE/S-Bahn
The two kinds of trains that go to Leipzig. RE is the fast one (~20 minutes) and S-Bahn the slow one (~40 minutes). More info on [travel](practicalities/travel.md).
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The red ebike. Usually lives in the communal bike shed.
### Lightning
The silver ebike. Usually attached to the kids trailer in the private bike shed.
The silver ebike. Usually lives in the communal bike shed.
### Daria
Bike trailer custom made for the base length of two green boxes. Usually stored on the wall of the communal bike shed.
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### KüfA
Short for 'Küche für Alle' or 'kitchen for all', an event where food is handed out for free or donation-based.
### KoLa
A [huge Solawi](https://kolalleipzig.de) in Sehlis, from which we sometimes save food.
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- doocracy
- doocracy https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Do-ocracy
- dragon dreaming
- scrum
- jitsi

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# :volcano: Heating system
Since beginning of winter 2021, Kanthaus is powered by an air heatpump heating system which is partly installed in the garden next to K20 garden door (actual heater), in K20 "water storage room" (some connections, valves, filters, meters) and the rest of the house (pipes, radiators).
Since beginning of Winter 2021, Kanthaus is powered by an air heatpump heating system. It is installed in the garden next to K20 garden door (actual heater), in K20-B water room (some connections, valves, filters, meters) and the rest of the house (pipes, radiators).
## User guidelines
What is special about a heatpump heating system is that to be efficient, the heating system's water temperature has to be as cold as possible, while still keeping the house warm. That means:
* You can not heat up a room quickly - turn on the radiator at least 4 hours before you want to notice some warmth, expect a room to becomme "warm" only 2 days after turning on the radiator
* The maximum reachable temperature in a room is given by the settings of the central heating systems, normally should be around 19.5 °C in Kanthaus
* To keep the efficiency of the system high, we actively decided that "badly heatable rooms" (e.g. with too small radiators for the specific room) stay colder. An incomplete list (generally notice badly heatable rooms by looking at the 6 surfaces of the room: The more cold rooms are on the other sides, the worse heating works)
* <div style="color:red;">You can not heat up a room quickly</div> - expect a room to become really warm only 2 days after turning on the radiator
* Much of the temperature control is set centrally. Thus, turning the knobs on the radiators doesn't do much more than switching on or off.
* <div style="color:red;">The maximum reachable temperature is usually around 19.5 °C in Kanthaus.</div>
* To keep the efficiency of the system high, we actively decided that "badly heatable rooms" (e.g. with too small radiators for the specific room) stay colder. Here's an incomplete list of those rooms:
* The Private (~13 degrees)
* Freeshop Lounge (~13 degrees)
* Cloud room (~14 degrees)
* Hipster room (~13 degrees)
* Sleep kitchen
* Dragon Room
* Ex Food Storage
Additionally, a heatpump works very differently from a gas heating system and likes to run continously, as well as needs a minimum water flow through the radiators to work at all. This means at least 6 radiators need to be turned on all the time.
Generally notice badly heatable rooms by looking at the 6 surfaces of the room: The more cold rooms are on the other sides, the worse the heating works.
Additionally, a heatpump works very differently from a gas heating system:
* it likes to run continously
* it needs a minimum water flow through the radiators to work at all
This means at least 6 radiators need to be turned on all the time.
The heating system is normally running all day, heating power is slightly reduced during nighttime. It is normal and wanted that the heatpump outside is working all the time.
When it is warm outside (> 5 degrees), we might turn off the heatpump during nighttime.
### Hot water
The heatpump is also responsible for hot water being available in the Main Bathroom, the Main Kitchen and the Snack Kitchen. We have a hot water tank in K20-B water room for that purpose. When full and freshly heated, it holds 200 liters of 50°C water.
<div style="color:red;">Heating water for showering and water for radiators is not possible simultaneously!</div>
Usually the heatpump switches to water mode once a day at some point when it's sunny. If the hot water tank in K20-B water room is empty, however, it immediately starts heating it up again.
## Troubleshooting
* A radiator is not getting warm, although the heating system should be running?
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[Service Manual](/assets/aquarea-service-manual.pdf)
[Planungs- und Installationsanleitung](/assets/aquarea-installation-manual.pdf)
In the K20 basement water storage room, there is two filters that should be cleaned regularly (e.g. at least once per heating season in the future, currently I do it weekly to get old dirt out of our system):
In the K20 basement water storage room, there is two filters that should be cleaned regularly (e.g. at least once per heating season):
* Spirotap MB3 (The "big" thing in the return line on the bottom)
* Turn off the heatpump, so the pump is not running
* Take off black magnetic cap to the bottom
* Get a bucket, put it underneath the exhaust in the bottom and turn the knob using the cap fully on for a second
* **Careful** water comes out with high pressure!
* **Careful:** water comes out with high pressure!
* Put black magnetic cap back on, turn heatpump back on
* Superfilter (The ball valve with the black handle on the bottem)
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The data is recorded in InfluxDB and can be watched at https://grafana.yunity.org/.
## Heishamon interface
[Heishamon](https://github.com/Egyras/HeishaMon) is a small piece of open-source software and hardware to monitor and control the heatpump. It is located in the K20-B water room and connected to WiFi.
### Heishamon interface
[Heishamon](https://github.com/Egyras/HeishaMon) is a small piece of open-source software and hardware to monitor and control the heatpump. It is located in the K20-B water room and is connected to WiFi.
It also emulates the `Optional PCB` thus is able to set the SG ready signals and demand control.
Heishamon is used to adjust the water target temperatures, with the aim to keep room temperatures consistent and use more of our own solar power.
## Heating controller program
### Heating controller program
A heating controller program is running on `kanthaus-server`. It maintains comfortable temperatures in the house while minimizing energy usage. It does this by reading room temperature sensor data from InfluxDB and adjusting the heating water target temperature via Heishamon. Also, it can switch the heating on or off based on temperature thresholds.