I took a quick look at it yesterday. What we have right now is a pretty old-school mercury thermostat. It's dead simple to change the wires around (screws not solder).
This week I'll pick up one of these: http://www.intermatic.com/Products/Timers/InWallTimers/Springwound_Auto-Off_Timers/FFCommercialSeries/FF6H.aspx and wire it up in series with the thermostat. It looks like I should be able to do it without so much as cutting or soldering existing wires. It won't cost more that $25 and will keep us from running the AC longer then we mean to. On May 30, 2014 12:46 PM, "Michael K" <[email protected]> wrote: > NO JUSTIN, that’s not what hacker excellence is about! > > Although I do have one I’m not using. I prefer my analogue mercury switch. > > *From:* Justin Lacko <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, May 30, 2014 9:38 AM > *To:* Discuss, SkullSpace <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [SkullSpace-Discuss] What jack ass > > Does anyone have a spare electronic thermostat kicking around? It > shouldn't be too much work to switch out the old analogue one with a > digital one with timer function. > > > On 30 May 2014 15:49, Benjamin Bergman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As for automating turning it off, I assume that the temperature is set >> with a little lever. If so, we could mount a servo under it that >> knocks it to a higher temp setting at around 9:30 or so, then get sout >> of the way again. If the a/c is already off, nothing happens. No need >> to automatically turn it on as the servo would be out of the way in >> the morning for the next person to use the thermostat. >> >> This would be a fun little into to electronics project someone could >> tackle at the next circuit night. >> >> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Theo Baschak <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > I was gonna ask if we could use our combined nerd powers for good (or >> awesome) and determine the draw/cost per hour of running the AC? Throw up a >> sign like "an evening of AC costs x"? >> > >> > Theo, BOFH >> > BOFH excuse ## >> > No funny random autoquotes on blackberry >> > >> > Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Nathan Wild <[email protected]> >> > Sender: [email protected]: Fri, 30 May 2014 >> 07:41:21 >> > To: SkullSpace<[email protected]> >> > Reply-To: [email protected] >> > Subject: Re: [SkullSpace-Discuss] What jack ass >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >> > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >> > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >> > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >> > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >> _______________________________________________ >> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >> > > > ------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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