On Oct 25, 8:48*am, "
wrote:
On Oct 25, 2:02*am, harry wrote:









On Oct 24, 10:26*pm, RicodJour wrote:

On Oct 24, 11:16*am, harry wrote:

On Oct 24, 2:46*pm, RicodJour wrote:
On Oct 24, 1:26*am, "Robert Green" wrote:

We're in a nasty state with control shifting back and forth between
elections, Supreme Court decisions of 5-4 inviting future (and now it seems
inevitable) reversal. *We're acting like a poorly designed thermostat that
rapidly switches on and off when the set temperature is reached instead
The technical term is hysteresis.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteresis#Control_systems

A factor in all control systems. Mechanical, electrical, electronic
and even political. Though hysteria might be nearer themark for the
latter.

You should know, you being the resident expert on hysteria.

There is no single correct place for a thermostat in a domestic house.

No, but there are a whole bunch of wrong ones.

And therein is your major malfunction. *You're looking for perfect,
I'm looking for rational compromise and the least-bad solution.

Also, do try harder with your quoting. *You gave me an attribution,
cut everything I wrote, and yet still responded to it. *Such lax
habits are less than ideal.


My newsreader does a lot of cutting on it's own. (Google)

I use Google, too, ya maroon. It cuts nothing out on its own - the
error is between your ears.

I mean that each room needs a thermostat to work properly. Even then
it needs to be carefully sited. *A single thermostat per house *will
never be much good.

Where are you that each room's heat is on an entirely separate loop,
and when that room's thermostat calls for heat, heat is not delivered
to other rooms? If you do have such a system, and each radiator calls
for heat on its own, then your burner will be short cycling endlessly.

Systems have to be balanced, which does not equate to throwing more
thermostats on the walls.

You know about as much about houses as you do politics
and economics. *I have lived in many houses where one thermostat
worked perfectly fine. *I'll bet lots of others here have had
similar experiences. *In fact, the standard here for the
majority of homes is one thermostat per heating SYSTEM.
That's what's done in most new construction as well.

The Old Dead Guys spent a lot of time designing and balancing a steam
system, and they worked just fine with one thermostat. When they
don't work well it's because the plumbers that came afterwards didn't
understand the system as well and renovations threw the balance out of
whack.

R