One day last week, I was up late playing videos games. \u00a0Not that unusual, but I noticed that my furnace was still running. \u00a0It was late enough that it should have cycled down for the night and I went over to check it out. \u00a0The display on the programmable thermostat was dim and I could just barely see that the battery indicator was blinking. \u00a0The batteries were dead enough that it wasn’t keeping track anymore and the furnace would just run.<\/p>\n
I swore, then proceeded to dismantle the thermostat to get at the batteries. \u00a0The cover was a flimsy piece of plastic that I almost broke, but I finally got to them.<\/p>\n
AA<\/p>\n
Now, I don’t have a stockpile of batteries in my house and I had a total of zero AA batteries. \u00a0I started scrounging around for some and realized that if I didn’t find any, I would either need to leave the furnace on all night (making it too hot) or off all night (way too cold in the morning).<\/p>\n
I finally found a flashlight with the right size batteries and salvaged those. \u00a0I put the thermostat back together and set about programming it again. \u00a0Did a little more swearing and then got out the manual.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0configuration\u00a0menu is activated by holding the back-light button for three seconds. \u00a0I never would have found that without the manual. \u00a0And would it have killed anyone to add a “setup” button? \u00a0 Why is the trend for electronic devices to reduce the number of buttons to stupid levels? \u00a0I blame Apple for that.<\/p>\n
Except for remote controls. \u00a0I’ve got three remotes and each has at least 2 dozen buttons that I never use. \u00a0Really?<\/p>\n
The thermostat required pushing buttons or holding buttons in the correct sequence \u00a0– with a timer that would clear what I was doing if I wasn’t fast enough. \u00a0I finally got everything set up again and went to bed – knowing that I would have to replace the batteries again soon since they weren’t new.<\/p>\n
So, the temp in my house is back to normal for now.<\/p>\n
Hmmm… I wonder if I can transplant some buttons from my remote controls to the thermostat?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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