Had a Nest (Ver 2) at my old QTH and never had an issue with RF even when
running full power. Tower was about 50' away and I also had a windom
running over the house.
73,
Jim N9WW
James Chaggaris
President
PowerOne Corp./PowerOne Environmental
2325 Dean St. Suite 200
St. Charles, IL 60175
Phn: 630.443.6500
Cell: 630.669.2241
Fax: 630.44366505
Website: www.pwrone.com <http://www.pwrone.com/>
On 12/3/13 2:22 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...
>--
>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 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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