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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Want info on smart house thermostats
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Date: Sat, 2-Feb-85 23:25:39 EST
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I wonder how much your type of furnace affects the savings from
these smart thermostats?  We have a heat pump, and our manual
says that the most efficient thing to do is to leave the setting
in one place; that the cost to heat the house back up will be
more than the cost to maintain it at one temperature.  I'm
willing to bet that electric heat strips will be helped by a
smart thermostat, perhaps also gas.  But heat pumps like equilibrium.