{"id":3649,"date":"2015-07-24T15:24:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T21:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=3649"},"modified":"2016-11-03T22:33:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T20:33:49","slug":"programmable-thermostats-work-both-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/programmable-thermostats-work-both-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Programmable Thermostats Work Both Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, I <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/upgrading-from-an-analog-duo-therm-thermostat-to-a-programmable-digital-honeywell-thermostat\/\">upgraded to a programmable thermostat<\/a> so that I could better control the furnace in cold weather. What I liked about it is that I could set a temperature for different times of the day, so go to bed in a warm rig, let it cool down overnight, and then get up to comfy temps.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s taken me a bit of time to realise that I can use the thermostat the same way with the air conditioner. Now, I don&#8217;t run the AC tons and I don&#8217;t need my home to be icy cold when it&#8217;s 50 billion degrees outside, but I work in here and need to concentrate. I have the machine, so why not use it?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been having an odd summer where it is very cool in the morning and then it gets to infernal temps in the afternoon. It&#8217;s such a gradual change that by the time I realise that I&#8217;m boiling, it&#8217;s 95 in the RV!<\/p>\n<p>So I have my AC set to 85F, which is a good compromise for me between boiling and paying for tons of power. Most days, it never kicks on. But there are days like today where the AC kicks on and I realise that it really is getting warm. I get up, shut the door, windows, and roof hatches, and then let the AC do its thing.<\/p>\n<p>The thermostat upgrade was one that has really paid off over the years. You should consider it if you spend any length of time in your RV!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, I upgraded to a programmable thermostat so that I could better control the furnace in cold weather. What I liked about it is that I could set a temperature for different times of the day, so go to bed in a warm rig, let it cool down overnight, and then get up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,4,635,5,807,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-haven","category-north-america","category-rving","category-saskatchewan","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}