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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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31 October 2002 - 1:22 pm
The thermostat here in apartment 12 has two temperature-dependent operating modes. In the first mode, which operates when ever the thermostat is set below 70°, the thermostat acts exactly as you would expect it to, holding the temperature in the apartment to within a few degrees of the desired temperature. However, the second mode, which comes into play whenever the thermostat is nudged beyond the 70° mark, reminds me of the fires of hell. The furnace will run and run, never shutting off, as our apartment grows hotter and hotter. I've let it run in mode two until the temperature got to 80° before, and the furnace showed no sign of shutting off before I shoved the indicator back down into the frigid 60s. What this means is that there is a range of temperatures from 70° to at least 80° (a range that includes normal room temperature) that our apartment can never achieve.
I would call maintenance about this, but I've weighed being slightly cold vs. having maintenance guys showing up at the apartment at 8am (as they've done on many occasions) and I've decided that I prefer cold. I mean, at least we're saving some money.
Posted by on 31 October 2002 at 1:22 PM
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Charlie's apartment acts that way too. It's awfully annoying.
My apartment in Millbrook only emits heat now (WashU must turn off the A/C in the winter), so if it's set to anything less than the current temperature, it heats to infinity or something, so we leave it off most of the time.
Posted by Amy on 31 October 2002 - 5:48 PM