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Sleep is overrated
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Reged: 05/09/05
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Posts: 3989
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Loc: Waltham, MA
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Re: You've got 3 degrees I'm missing.
01/04/14 06:18 AM
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> Right there with you...
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> Furnace dead last night. House got to 45F by morning.
> Got the furnace running this morning fiddling with the thermostat, went to work.
> Wife calls me around 3PM...house is 87F.
> Buy a thermostat after work. Install it. New thermostat dead. Too late to return it.
> Twisting red and white wires together every 30 minutes...seems to do the job.
Thermostats are such garbage these days, unless you spring for the $400 "home automation" BS. I just replaced one where the batteries were impossible to get out, and I ended up bending the contacts all out of shape. It would seem to be fine, then you close a door or walk by too heavily, and it would die. I woke up a couple of mornings on the verge of being able to see my breath. The new one is better, but not much. Makes me want to go back to the kind that is basically just a sealed vial of mercury. You don't get any fancy programming, but at least the damned thing works.
Here it's currently 0 F and still falling, BTW.
Edited by DMala (01/04/14 06:19 AM)
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