On 12/20/2004 2:40 PM US(ET), Jeff Wisnia took fingers to keys, and=20
typed the following:

wrote:

Thanks to Jeff for the detailed explanation...I will look to a
prgrammable thermo -

Scott, my system is inefficient because one of my big radiators is not=

getting too hot. I think its a valve issue, so to get the house
confortable, It has to go to 72.

48 degrees !!

I have a 18 year old cat in the house - don't want a catcicle when I
get home.



We drop it to 45 and our cat Darwin hasn't said he minds it at all.=20
I'm hoping it'll help burn some of the fat off of him.

He's gotten so rotund that he can't run as fast as the mice anymore,=20
so he's mechanized the process:

http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/jeff/mousetrap1.jpg

We're in the Boston area BTW. Wuz 14 F outside when I left this morning=
=2E

Was 6=BA F (-14 C) here in NY this morning.