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From: mike@amdcad.UUCP (Mike Parker)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Want info on smart house thermostats
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Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 16:22:06 EST
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Mark Horton writes:

> 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.

I do not understand. I'll not flame and call you names for saying
this but I can not understand why it should be so. Do you believe
it only because the manual says it is true? Or, can you explain it
to one so ignorant as me?

Mike @ AMDCAD