Good morning, This is directed primarily to those of you with the VIP talking thermostat.
About three weeks ago this unit just quit talking one day. My wife noticed it got down to something like 15C with another thermometer we have here. It seems that the temperature control was working as she pressed the "up" button and after a time the temperature climbed way up there, mostly she didn't know the setting because while pushing the button there was no feedback and no way to know where starting from, actually no way to know it was even responding. >From work I told her to just switch the system off with the sliding switches. >When I got home I removed the batteries and tested them. they were reading in >the range 1.42 to 1.47V which I thought should be acceptable. When I replaced >the batteries though the VIP came back to life registering a time something >just beyond midnight but it seemed to have remembered the day and the >programmed settings. This morning when we got up the VIP wasn't talking again and it had stuck on the night time setting of 16C so far as I can tell, up stairs where we sleep with a window open it was reading 14.9 on the thermometer up there and 59F on the little one down here on the kitchen counter. VIP was silent and I could not get him talking until I again removed the batteries. Being only three weeks old I didn't change them just replaced them and VIP again began talking. Seems to have remembered all the settings but the time which it assumed to be about 9 hours ago. VIP spoke to me last thing on my way up stairs last night at around the time it reported when I put the batteries back in this morning but I don't remember for sure reporting that it was 21C and that the setting was the night time one of 16C. Has anyone else experienced this sort of behavior? I have had this installed and running since the end of October or the first of November of 2005 and to this point this seems to be the first trouble but it is significant and worrying, I would be a very unhappy camper if my pipes were to freeze on an overnight trip. I could of course and now probably will instal a parallel back-up thermostat to override this one in the case of a failure nevertheless it is disappointing. I have not yet contacted the manufacturer, I thought I would first see if anyone else is having similar experiences. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/hOt0.A/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/86xolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
