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Default Wireless thermostat
On 9 Mar 2006 21:08:20 -0800, wrote:

Hi,

I work 30 min away from home and have to stay at work unpredictably
long.

Is there such a thing as a wireless thermostat - in the sense that I
can login to it and turn the heat on as I'm leaving work. (There are
wireless cameras, why not a wireless thermostat?)

Yes, but the words you want to search on are remote controlled, or
something like that, not wireless. They have them that work with the
internet and those that work with the telephone.


If you have to leave the computer on all day long, it might cost as
much as keepign the heat on low, with a setback thermostat to turn it
up.

How does one figure that. 200 Watt power supply (now theyt're bigger)
times 10 hours equals 2 KwH = 25cents, going up to 44cents in June
here.

400 watt power supply =88 cents a day. not so much but for 250 work
days that's about 220 dollars a year, plus wear on the harddrive.

Many thanks in advance!

Aaron Fude

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