[RFI] Nest Thermostat

[Larry Bryan]

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 at 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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