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Subject: Re: Why don't thermostats work? - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 07:03:48 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  9 07:03:48 1984
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fortune!rpw3    Feb  9 03:13:00 1984

In the good electric blankets there are TWO thermostats. One is
"distributed" through the blanket (in lumps, usually) and measures
how warm the blankets (~~you) are, and the other is in the control
housing and measures how cold the room is. Some have split (he/she)
controls (and therefore split blanket thermostats).

DON'T put the control under the blanket. You will freeze! But also don't
put it on the floor, near the central heat, next to a window, etc. Put it
somewhere that approximates the air environment around you. (My parents
used to pull out one of the drawers and lay it on the folded shirts.)

Even so, it only works well if the heat loss from the blanket to the
room approximates what the manufacturer thought is was going to be
(e.g., they thought you would use the electric blanket under a single
light spread, and you use it (a) on top, or (b) under a comforter!)

(I don't like them, myself, even under the best of conditions. Oh well...)

Rob Warnock

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