[bars] daylight saving time ..... hopefully this is an appropriate place for my comments W1LPG

[Welch, Brendan]

When I updated our clocks last Saturday night, I thought I had done everything
correctly.  (I even did the XYL's wristwatch).
Eventually I remembered the clock in the car.   What did I forget???

the battery-operated thermostats for keeping the house warm at the right time!

But that brings me to a suggestion:  If you are installing (or even after installing)
such a device, instead of simply replacing the old analog thermostat, you should
just wire up the new one IN PARALLEL with the old.

The reasons are to simplify some situations, so you do not have to do a complicated
re-programming of the new one.


  1.
If you are going away for a week in winter, and do not want the heat coming on
unnecessarily, just turn off the electronic one, and set the old manual one
to a low temperature, just enough  to keep pipes from freezing.  I always leave the
old one set around 55 - 60
  2.
If  you are going to be out of the house some winter day, but already had
programmed it to be on in the afternoon, do the same as above.
  3.
You might want the temperature to be on at a higher temperature than usual for
a while, or  for a longer time, or at a different time  (e.g., visitors,  e.g., the
weather forecast is so disastrous that you want the heat to stay on all night, in
case you lose power) .
  4.
One part of our house has unprotected pipes going to heat a room above, and

            we have had  trouble  during a few serious cold snaps.  I put a thermostat in parallel,
            and placed it close to a pipe, but set at a very low temperature (some
           experimentation was needed).   This has proved worthwhile, because only on
            a few very cold days, the heat in the room above stayed above what was'
            normally needed.

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