Need a new thermostat

micky · 2020-04-23T15:29:27+00:00

Another problem with getting a heat pump is that the wirign to thethermostat is inadequate. no easy way to run a new wire to the samelocation**. 1) I know they make wireless thermostats and wifi thermostats, but Iwonder if they made ones that are wired but can get by on only 4 wires,maybe by modulating the signal or something, and demodulating it at thefurnace end. 2) Also, a much harder question: For years I've been looking for this,a setback thermostat that had a Next button. So if you come home early,leave early, go to bed or get up early, instead of having to use the upor down button and count how mnay degrees you set the temp up or down,you push one button once, to go to the next time period/temparature. This seems so obvious I don't know why there aren't many versions of it.I think I saw one of these 40 years ago, but not since then. 3) **I could move the thermostat to a different wall, but it would becloser to the kitchen, by the doorway just on the other side of thewall. There is some heat from the refrigerator, and I use the oven foran hour every 2 or 3 days, and that warms the kitchen and I supposewould turn the heat down, while I was in the kitchen and for a littlewhile afterwards. Of course when I'm in the kitchen, I don't care howwarm it is is in the kitchen. It would also turn the AC up when theoven is on, and that would be a waste when for the rest of the house,but otoh, it's only 3 hours a week, and if it were really a lot, I couldturn the AC off. The next owners may not like this, but they can buytheir own wireless thermostat if that will make them happy.

Apr 23, 2020 Last reply: 6 years ago 49 Replies

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gfretwell 6 years ago

I had a ST238 on my First Day Ship 5150 PC1 (the first IBM PC) but I did swap the system board ;-)

I never did it but there was a 5 slot "AT" board that fit in the 5150 case. It was for the luggable version of the AT. (5162). That was a 286 board with the same form factor as the original PC. in the 5155 case There was also a suite of short height cards for it. By then I was running a wooden AT with a 339 board in it so I never fooled with it.

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Shortly after that I made a PS/2-M70 woodie. with a 5" bay

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Clare Snyder 6 years ago

ATs. Were you running the 238 on MFM or RLL? We "upped" a lot of MFM drives to RLL. We put XT and AT as well as 386 and even some 486 boards into the lunchbox portables - green, amber,and white mono, cga, ega mono and color and even a few VGA screens. Sold a lot of the orange Plasma screens too. ESDI drives were popular for a short time before I left. We sold a lot of SCSI stuff too - including a lot of CD drives. We had CD servers with 2 and 3 controllers - 7 drives per controller.

When I went out on my own I didn't bother building systems except for myself - and even then it was more "rebuilding" stuff that I took in on exchanges - I never had a requirement for anything "cutting edge"

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