On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:19:24 -0600, Puddin' Man
wrote:

Jeeez! I musta posted to the wrong forum.

Is this here forum "alt.home.repair"? As in R-E-P-A-I-R???

Mostly, y'all just show that ya don't know the t-stat.

I bought top-of-line Honeywell in '84. It went totally bonkers and
kissed the trash can in 3 years or less.

I then bought the White-Rodgers 1F90-51. Digital, programmable,
entirely adequate, and very reliable. There's a zillion of them
around here yet: in friends houses, restaurants, etc.

Y'all can pitch, buy-new all ya want. 'Tis my intent to repair! :-)

P

On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:40:01 -0800 (PST), wrote:

New ones that offer the same or better features and are srop in
replacements that wire in the same way are relatively inexpensive.
And for a little more, you can get ones with more features.

"Take Yo' Hand Out My Pocket (I Ain't Got Nothing What Belongs To You)!"
- Rice Miller, who probably never even _heard_ of GW Bush, Paulson, etc

Pull the stat off the wall. Punch a hole behind it large enough to
take a 4 -AA battery holder. Solder the leads to the correct points on
the circuit board, drop the battery case into the wall and screw the
stat back on.