Re: Wireless thermostat

["Joseph Meehan" <sligojoe_Spamno@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

trader4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Joseph Meehan wrote:
>> mm wrote:
>> > On 9 Mar 2006 21:08:20 -0800, aaronfude@xxxxxxxxx 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.
>>
>> --
>> 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