Title. We keep ours at 75F, parents do 77F, and in laws 68F. It made me curious what everyone else keeps theirs at?
I’m in Denver Summer: 80° in the day, 70° at night Winter: 73° in the day, 63° at night
Not American. What’s a thermostat?
The electronic thing on the wall that controls the temperature of your heater or air conditioner.
older ones are often electrical, but not really electronic. they use a bimetal strip that bends due to changing temperatures, to complete a circuit at the point you set the slider. it’s actually a really fascinatingly simple bit of tech.
Mine growing up used a bit of mercury in a sealed vial mounted to that bimetallic strip.
any idea what the mercury was for? something about getting the heat in and out of the strip faster maybe?
Yeah, sorry. It was the switch! Two wires on one side. When the capsule tilts from the strip/coil it makes the electrical connection.
that is fascinating, thank you and @metheos@feddit.de for the elaboration. quite clever.
The Mercury is in a glass tube with two wires and the tube is attached to the bimetallic strip in such a way that the motion of the Mercury due to gravity as the strip moves will close the circuit between the two wires. The Mercury is just being used a liquid conductor.
Google search would have answered that.
It’s what controls the furnace or air conditioner in your house. That way you can control how hot or cold your house is.
That depends. For example in a lot of Europe there aren’t any air conditioners in houses, so it only controls heating.
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Thermostat isn’t an American term.
It controls your furnace and air conditioner in your house
77F normally
I let visitors change it at will, but I always keep it above the minimum temperature for water to evaporate as a temperature reference.
I keep it the same year round, about 71F during the day and 68F at night.
Same here!
If I had one and was unbothered by energy, probably around 18-21 C. As it stands, I’m planning on storing a couple of spray bottles full of water in the fridge and having a fan pointed at me at all times when summer comes around.
I do 26c, my partner likes 24c.
We don’t have a thermostat. We have storage heaters and criminally insufficient insulation. I’d like to keep the flat about 21C (69F), a little lower at night. I can only afford to keep the flat above 17C (62F). Cost of living crisis sucks.
Summer time - 75F during the day, 72F at night. Winter time - 68F during the day, 62F at night.
I live in the Midwest US
68F-72F in summer 66ish in the winter. In live in the South East United States and humidity is a bitch
No? Set termostat to a lower temp in the winter so the heater doesn’t stay on as long. Higher temp in the summer so the AC doesn’t stay on.
Another reason to keep it closer to the outdoor temp is clothing. I loathe places in the winter that have the heat cranked up, I dressed for the cold, I don’t want to melt because businesses crank the heat up to 80F for some reason. Same with the summer, I’m shivering cause I dressed for 90F but inside is in the high 60’s.
With ceiling fans on in every room
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In the summer? I have no AC at my house but it doesn’t usually go above 77 - 80 on it’s own. It’s in a unique part of the city where we’re surrounded by the woods and trees which provide a lot of shade and cool the air. Also the house is built into the side of a mountain and surrounded by massive retaining walls, so the first floor is basically a story underground. Our bedroom is also on the first floor, so I don’t really go upstairs except to do laundry.
In the winter, usually about 64 - 67. It goes down to 60 during the day on a schedule or whatever.
That sounds awesome!
https://www.relay.fm/cortex/145
In which CGPGrey discusses ordering parts to replace inside of hotel A/Cs so that he set the room temp to 16º. Quite chilly, btw, why do you need that??
you are the only one i can read, all the others keep using uncivilized measurements (fahrenheit… btw, so many americians here. ew. 🤢)
