I wonder if Honeywell's similar product has similar issues?
tnx
Mike / W5JR
> On Dec 3, 2013, at 3:22 PM, David Cole <dave@nk7z.net> wrote:
>
> Well... That crosses off a Nest Thermostat from my list of cool geeky
> things to own... I had actually been thinking about one...
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>
>
>
>> On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 15:15 -0500, Larry Bryan wrote:
>> Problem is they refuse to send another base and without it, the stat
>> won't work.
>>
>> 73
>> Larry - W8LIG
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 2:29 PM, David Cole <dave@nk7z.net> wrote:
>> If it were mine, I would bypass it for RF. A call to Nest
>> letting them
>> know it is living in a high RF environment might be in
>> order...
>>
>> Also, you might want to run some exposure calculations as
>> well... :)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks and 73's,
>> For equipment, and software setups and reviews see:
>> www.nk7z.net
>> for MixW support see;
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mixw/info
>> for Dopplergram information see:
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dopplergram/info
>> for MM-SSTV see:
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/MM-SSTV/info
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 13:09 -0500, Larry Bryan wrote:
>>> I bought a NEST programmable thermostat in 2012 so I could
>> monitor the
>>> house while in Florida. It's worked very well until last
>> month. I was
>>> working 40m and after I was done, the wife wanted to know
>> why the HVAC was
>>> running and cold air coming out of the floor vents. I
>> investigated and
>>> found that both the AC and Heat was running and the
>> thermostat was showing
>>> the wrong temperature.
>>>
>>> Calling NEST the next day, I was informed that the base of
>> the thermostat
>>> has fusing and the fuse was blown. NEST sent a replacement
>> base and after
>>> installation, it was working again.
>>>
>>> Again last night while working a DXpedition on CW, I shut
>> down and walked
>>> into the family room to find the same thing had happened. My
>> SteppIR is on
>>> a tower directly adjacent to the house and it was raised to
>> about 35 feet.
>>>
>>> So I'm looking for suggestions on how I can reduce the RF
>> getting into the
>>> thermostat. Obviously going back to an analog thermostat is
>> a solution but
>>> would like to make that the final solution if possible.
>>> 73
>>> Larry - W8LIG
>>
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