Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!fortune!rpw3 From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Why don't thermostats work? - (nf) Message-ID: <2493@fortune.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 07:03:48 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2493 Posted: Thu Feb 9 07:03:48 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 04:13:32 EST Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 27 #R:ihuxl:-87700:fortune:6700029:000:1129 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 UUCP: {sri-unix,amd70,hpda,harpo,ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!rpw3 DDD: (415)595-8444 USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphins Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065