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Joseph Meehan
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Wireless thermostat
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Joseph Meehan wrote:
mm wrote:
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
That 400W power supply tops out at supplying 400W. It would
consume more than that while providing 400W. Of course in real life
few average anything close to 400W.
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Joseph Meehan
Dia duit
Plus, where is the PC power going? It's going into heating the house.
All PC's built for quite some time have the ability to power down the
disk, put the monitor on stdby, etc as well, so the real power can be
an order of magnitude less than the max rating of the power supply.
No way that can come close to the savings of lowering the furnace
substantially in cold weather.
Very true, but I did not want to add that as during the summer it will
increase cooling cost. :-)
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Joseph Meehan
Dia duit
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