On a website were I posted it, they saved it in a favourites folder, generally indicating liking, but they put it a sub-folder titled "sorry". I don't know what that means.
Recovering from accident, been away from here, so coming back it would be appropriate to visit my favorite haunt. A coyote can outrun a roadrunner, but roadrunners can, and do, fly to evade them. Mentioning a certain song by the Ramones about an inappropriate form of corporal punishment got me banned from That Social Media Site that shall not be named for 30 days. About 28 to go, and I'm starting to wonder if I even want to go back.
Judging from the TV and internet ads I see, I'm apparently no longer in anybody's target demographic.
Might sound like a stupid question, but how exactly do central heating thermostats work? I put my heating back on about three weeks ago, and set it at my usual comfort zone of 15 degrees. It was perhaps a few degrees too high, as the heating would sometimes kick in before I would like, and make the room uncomfortably warm. Regardless, I leave it at 15 degrees, but after I returned home from work today, I’m sat there and start to feel cold. I can feel the chill on the back of my neck and tops of my ears, and the heating still hasn’t kicked into action. In the end I had to get up and turn it up to around 17-18 degrees to trigger it. Why? Why would it sometimes switch on when the room still feels warm, and then not when the room is uncomfortably cold? It’s not faulty AFAiA.
Your heat is based on the ambient temperature at the thermostat. If the area around the thermostat is at your 15°c, the rest of the place could be 13°c, and the furnace wouldn’t know. I keep my thermostat set at 70°f, but we have ceiling fans to move the air and heat throughout the house to keep things even. All but one of the fans is new, with digital motors and LED lights, so we’ll see what that does for our heat and electric bills this winter. One of the fans is supposed to be so efficient the expected energy cost sticker claims it should cost on average $1.08 for the year to operate.
How do you not melt?? Oh, thanks for the explanation. Not sure it explains the inconsistency, but it’s something to go on.
70° is considered a pleasant spring-like temperature over here, but we also don’t see baked beans as a potential breakfast food.
Newer thermostats put an electrical current through a semiconductor whose resistance is temperature dependant. The voltage difference is translated to temperature and controlled accordingly. In older thermostats they used a coil that is laminated from two pieces of metal that have different rates of expansion due to temperature. This causes a glass tube containing a drop of mercury to rock back and forth. At one end are to wires to a relay that turns the furnace on and off. As the temperature drops, the glass tube rocks so that the mercury flows toward the end with the wires and makes contact. Not necessarily useless facts, but more than you needed to know.
Think of your thermostat like that guy guiding an HGV truck into a loading dock. That guy can only see what’s within view of where he’s standing, and he can only communicate to the driver what he sees. Your thermostat can only pick up on the temperature of the room it’s in, and it can only communicate to the furnace what it’s reading in that room. It won’t pick up on temperatures elsewhere in the home. I don’t know if you rent or own, flat or house, but if you can, move the thermostat to a typically cooler part of the home. Your problem may be as simple as poor placement. Ie; being too close to the heat source and getting up to temperature sooner than the rest of the home.
Yep. That. That's why it's good to have as many zones as possible. The thermostat in my house is right near enough to my library fireplace that when I'm reading in there the house thinks it's 75 but the bedrooms upstairs are in the 50s. Then i have to crank the thermostat to 80 to warm up any other room. Pain in the balls.
I am so tempted to make a naughty remark about the color of your painful balls, but that surely would be in bad taste.
@OurJud Regarding thermostats there's usually a bit of a dead zone or maintenance band.. Like if you have the thermostat set to 15, it might kick on at 15 and off at 16. If it had one temperature for on and off, when it reached that temp it could rapidly turn on and off and damage your equipment. It might be that your thermostat is old or a cheap design and doesn't consistently operate like it should, or just has a really wide dead zone.
It’s on the wall, approximately 8 inches from one of the vertical radiators Hold on, the thermostat is the little dial you turn to adjust the temperature, yes?
Headline of the Day, from HuffPo: Reagan Shooter John Hinckley Jr. Shares Original Country Songs On Spotify
Going through catalogues of new releases for November. Came across the "fast spreading virus" plot but the author made sure to say the book was written Pre-COVID. I cant remember who said it was coming or on which thread but (to quote that creepy kid from Poltergeist....) "They're here"
Boston Corbett, the Army Sergeant who killed John Wilkes Booth, cut off his own testicles with a pair of scissors after experiencing a moment of lust.
Congratulations on one of the most apt posts to this thread. It was narrowly beaten by ‘Caffeine is a stimulant’
