Clocks, clocks, and endlessly more clocks

I never wore a watch while out of the house. Everyone else had one or a phone or other device with a built in clock.

I was never without a watch for 50 years or so. One day a few years ago the battery died and I put the watch down and never picked it up again. Years ago, it was very hand, but now, you can barely glance in any direction and not see the time on some device. Cable box, GPS, phone, microwave, computer . . .

Stormy,

All done except the water softener, it's under the house. I find that alkaline batteries last about 3 yrs in the house smoke alarm, and that they give plenty of warning when it's replacement time. Thermostat batteries last years too. Never understood why you should replace them every year. Suspect that this is nonsense.

Dave M.

Battery - operated stuff does require more maintenance. My thermostat uses furnace power. Could yours be wired for that?

Both my programmable thermostats use battery power for at least the clock. Seems to be very common.

Most digital thermostats have battery to back-up time & settings when electric goes out.

Hi, My 'stat is wired to run off 24V AC control voltage, battery is back up when power fails. Lithium batteries I put when first installed are still there with full charge.

Ah, thermstat. Not got that one yet. It may be that I'm using out of date batteries, or it may be the clocks. But I get less than a year from the cells I use. Most likely out of date batteries. I replace the ones in my clocks and at church, each year twice at time change.

I do try to get the smoke detector every clock change, figure what's a dollar battery versus my life lost in fire.

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Probably yes. I don't know. I havn't checked.

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Just checked my Honeywell thermostat and it updated by itself ... wow, what a concept! But, the el-cheapo Harbor Freight indoor/outdoor thermometer didn't. It was supposed to have a radio for atomic time, however, I think that's why they were sooooo cheap. I've seen 3 of them, and the atomic clock didn't work on any of them. Maybe I'm too far east, however, other atomic clocks seem to work. But I am in the mountains of NC and radio/TV/cell signals are iffy at best.

Yeah, the Honeywell programmable in my house had batteries for backup. I put a Honeywell in my motorhome because the original that came with it had severe cycle-itis. It was difficult to get the Honeywell to work as the motorhome is all on +12 DC, has and AC air conditioner/heat pump plus a 12 volt controlled propane furnace. So the 'tat runs on the batteries. I remove them when not traveling.

We have Dect 6 Panasonic phones...and I don't remember having to adjust them in 3 yrs? This last time I had to adjust it...hmmmm. (The stored information comes from the base station)