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Default replacing a thermost without ability to turn off electricity

According to mm :
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:48:45 GMT, Bennett Price
wrote:

What sort of heating do you have? If its electrical baseboard there may
be 120V at the thermostat.


I should have thought about that. Do they make programmable
thermostats for such systems?


Many of those are battery-powered devices that fit _over_ the T-stat and
mechanically move the knob with a small motor. Particularly common for
round-type T-stats.
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