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... :)
>
>
>
>
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>
>
>
> 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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