A digital thermostat does not draw power from the A/C unit. It runs on
batteries.
Darrin
Darrin Porter
Senior Technical Engineer
United Ocean Services, L.L.C.
601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230
Tampa, Florida 33602
(813) 209-4247 (office)
(813) 744-0011 (cellular phone)
(813)
I use the Energizer e2 Lithium batteries in everything now. These are not
Lithium ion batteries and are not rechargeable, but they last for ever.
It is truly impressive how long they last. I can't even remember the last
time I put batteries in my thermostat.
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Blue skies.
Dan Rossi
Scott,
Thank you so very much for your original post describing your ceiling fan
project. I will be sending it off to my wife to show her that I am not
alone in project issues.
Your description matches my experiences word for word. Starting a project
thinking it can't be that difficult.
Scott,
My long drill bit (6-ft.) drills a ¾-in. hole. I have used it to drill through
three wall studs. That was a pain, but I managed to get it done without
punching out of the wall. It has a very sharp pilot point on the tip which I
can stab into each stud in turn. It will not slip
David Ferrin
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VIP Conduit Tech Support
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You bet, always glad to share experiences. After all, my wife for as
much as I love the woman, sometimes just doesn't see the end result
when compared against the effort to get there and assumes there
shouldn't be a lot of cleanup or potential painting to be done once
I've made the mess.
Well if I had the sense to think this through, I would have saved some
holez. THanks for the tip for my next project. The only problem is I
would have needed to make one hole close to the area where the switch
was. I had no idea how to fish the wire up the wall, into the hole,
and than
hi David i hear that last message from you was written in invisible jaws ink
Jim
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Sorry folks, that message got away from me. I was rejecting an
in-appropriate post.
David Ferrin
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To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009
Can't say that I do other than a well-trained mouse!
I've never lived / worked in a two-story house and never thought about some of
the potential challenges until your post. I did live in a garage apartment
once, but it was one that I built myself and I made sure that I could access
the area
I'm not sure what thermostats you are talking about that operate off a battery.
There are some that require a battery to hold a schedule or it can't be used.
Most thermostats operate on the power supplied by the fan-coil or furnace. The
same power is sent to the AC unit to operate all
Bob,
I am now on my third digital thermostat and I can assure you that they have all
run off of AA batteries. The first two were not programmable, but my current
one (the VIP) is. I wish it was not the case. When the batteries fail, about
once every 18 months or so, the display goes blank
What for make and model do you have and what is it operating? I would almost
have to think that maybe something isn't quite right unless it operates a
non-electric gas furnace that doesn't use a fan to circulate the heat or a
fireplace type unit.
.bob
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Darrin, I have had the same digital thermostat for over 15 years now at least,
it does not require batteries to run or maintain memory of how it is
programmed. It operates from the low voltage (24) supplied from my air
handler. It will shut down when brown-out voltage conditions exist and
Bob,
At least on the talking thermostats, I believe the batteries run all the
stuff that make them a talking thermostat, plus keep the programming. I
seriously doubt you need four double a batteries just to keep memory.
--
Blue skies.
Dan Rossi
Carnegie Mellon University.
E-Mail:
Bob,
I am running a 3.5 ton R-410A A/C unit with heat pump. I live in Florida, so
don't have much use for a furnace or serious heating system. Up until I bought
my house in 2005, I always had a mercury-switch type thermostat that required
no batteries. As a matter of fact, I didn't know
Dan, I suspect on the VIP and other speech therms the batteries are all for the
speech operated portion and the rest would be standard hardware and interfaces.
.bob
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Darrin, when you stated that this is your third one and that the display went
blank when the battery went dead it all sounded kind of strange to me. I can
understand maybe the speech part not working with dead batteries, not the
thermostat. I never used a speech VIP therm so you could be
keep the dust from migrating in the air. Most minimal clean room
application.
This is why the drop cloth for a blind painter is a real pain. Just step
in that which the drop cloth is meant to do, and then keep walking and
you've *blown it!
Grumble grumble.
But even a drop cloth before a doorway
I'm planning to build a house in a few months. This question will likely
invite some debate, which I think is good. If you wanted to build a house as
energy efficient as possible, without breaking the bank, how would you do
it? To make things simpler (or perhaps more difficult), there is a
Build an earth home. But, you might need a hill side for that.
earlier, Shane Hecker, wrote:
I'm planning to build a house in a few months. This question will likely
invite some debate, which I think is good. If you wanted to build a house as
energy efficient as possible, without breaking the
I'm in south texas. There are no hills to speak of. I heard of someone building
an adobe house in this area, but have no idea how well it would stand to a
category 5 hurricane.
Shane
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i heard some one refer to flower paper is thair sutch a thing or was he
probabley thinking of wet and dry?
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If my brother Lee was still on this list. He would tell you those dome homes
and thinking that would cover what you are worried about
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will you be doing the work yourself?
Most of it. I'd be willing to let someone else do the exterior, but I want to
do the interior stuff.
Shane
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From: Peter Mikochik
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] building a house
the budget is not relevant without knowing the size or sophistication of the
fixtures and fittings. Beyond that there are a huge number of things to
consider.
In south Texas it is cooling which will be the big cost. you want to start with
orientation of the building to things like the sun. You
I thought about building the exterior wals with a combination of nail base and
concrete, but this may be overkill. For those that don't know what I'm talking
about, nail base is a structural insulated panel that does not have a skin on
one side. Rather, it has the skin, then foam. You could
First you must decide what properties you want the exterior to have then find
the materials which provide those properties.
It sounds to me like you are allowing your imagination to be captured by some
or other idea or material and then adjusting your thinking to the method or
material.
who said I was off the list? ha. ha. and if I found the perfect
piece of property and if I was to rebuilt it would be a dome home as I
have a very good friend who is tickled pink with her place which sees
many climate changes similar to what we have in the northeast..
another place I
Scott,
Occasionally I've been able to fish wires through from opposite directions,
with hooks on the end and hook them together and pull one all the way
through.
But in your application, I think I'd make a hole in the ceiling above the
switch and do a patch job later.
But if the remote control
Aransas Pass is where I'm building.
Shane
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From: Dale Leavens
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] building a house
First you must decide what properties you want the exterior to have
The wiring that comes to those little round Honeywell thermostats only has
one side of the transformer. When I replaced mine with a home made
electronic thermostat I had to connect up the other side. Fortunately there
was an unused wire in the cable so there was no problem. A wire nut was
Use 2 by 6 studs and put in R19 insulation in the walls. R40 in the attic.
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Sub standard. R30 at least in the walls but equally important is a contiguous
sealed air barrier.
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From: Max Robinson
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 11:10 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] building a house
Use 2 by 6
Things do keep advancing, don't they.
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Well, you are only about 15 feet above sea level so the water table may be very
close to the surface. Geothermal is probably a good choice for heating and
cooling. I imagine most construction there would be on slab so insulating under
it and making a good air tight seal with the walls would be
Well, insulation is relatively cheap particularly if it is designed for in new
construction. I don't suppose building codes require it yet and a lot depends
on weather you design for the heating and cooling plant or the other way
around. There are other significant considerations too, size and
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