• Klimax (unregistered)

    That's funny. I was solving similar problem in one of the houses recently. Temperature sensor or its controller si malfunctioning and is sending wildly bad data (while outside temp is about -5°C, it would report in span of seconds 24, 4, and 7)

    Solution was fristly similar. Switch off temp sensor until service can fix it. Local termo regulators can still be used to regulate.

  • COBOL Dilettante (unregistered)

    That setup reminds me of an office where I once worked where the intake for the air-con was right next to the exhaust pipe from the backup diesel generator - thus ensuring that if ever the mains power went down, everyone could enjoy a roomful of diesel fumes

  • (nodebb)

    As an European I was wondering what it is doing in an wooden shack and then I remembered, pretty much everything they call houses over there is made out just wood and paper. And now I have totally forgotten what the actual WTF build on papier-mâché was actually about...

  • my name (unregistered)

    I once wanted an ppointment with my bank adviser, unfortunately the AI to make such appointments was terrible, i got slightly ennerved and shouted which immediately resulted in connecting me to a real person, perhaps that could have worked as well

  • (nodebb)

    Heat pump should have no problem whatsoever operating below 40F/4C. Most can provide heat down to 0F/-18C, some can go even colder. A good thermostat will supplement the heat pump with aux heat so both run only as much as they need to. That is a common mistake installers and factory defaults make, even Ecobee defaults to locking it out at 35F. I set the lockout to 0F and it still stages everything properly.

    This sounds like the reversing valve was never connected properly, meaning the heat pump was stuck in cooling mode. That happened to me when I got my system replaced, additionally, they did not connect the aux heat. Cooling worked but I had no heat at all come winter. Easy enough to fix myself, but really guys? You are literally matching wire colors and terminal names. W gets the white wire, O/B gets the orange or blue wire, Y gets the yellow wire, G gets the green wire, R gets the red wire...

  • (nodebb) in reply to COBOL Dilettante

    That's a feature not a bug. Olfactory alert you are on generator power.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Coyote

    That's a feature not a bug. Olfactory alert you are on generator power.

    I guess we won't mention the potential for doses of diesel fumes (unburnt and half-burnt hydrocarbons and/or combustion products, notably NOx, CO2 and, probably worst of all, CO). Don't forget that the diesel plant itself probably gets run up fairly infrequently, and might or might not get sufficient test runs and maintenance.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Coyote

    W gets the white wire, O/B gets the orange or blue wire, Y gets the yellow wire, G gets the green wire, R gets the red wire...

    Whoa whoa whoa slow down there, you're going a mile a minute.

  • (nodebb) in reply to my name

    I have also noticed that the bank AI immediately gives up if you call it stupid. I once had to deal with it, and it kept coming back with the same question, which I had already answered. Then I called it stupid, and got a person right away. I couldn't shout, it was a prompt.

  • (nodebb)

    This physicist/engineer nerd recently got a similar hybrid system put in. The first thing i did was watch the installer set up the thermostat, so I knew the 'secret' access to deep settings. The next thing I did was RTFM front to back. Then I clicked on every menu and submenu to see what was there and whaat the settings were. To my knowledge, all hybrid systems have a "Gas furnace only" setting.

  • Dev tool guy (unregistered)

    If you are adventurous enough, you can get most heaters to run by just hard wiring the correct low voltage control terminals together and then manually unhooking that when things get warm enough. I wouldn't suggest that as a good idea under most any situation, but if the alternative is thing getting cold enough to do permanent damage to something that costs more than the heater, then it might be a less bad idea. (And that's not likely to happen any time soon if the outside air temperature is above freezing.)

    I had to do something like that to get the fan to run continuously (for reasons) without heat a few months ago.

  • A Human (unregistered)

    Technology connections mentioned!

    (I loved that video)

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