Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site heurikon.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!uwvax!heurikon!jeff From: jeff@heurikon.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc,net.physics Subject: Re: Why don't thermostats work? Message-ID: <244@heurikon.UUCP> Date: Sun, 26-Feb-84 02:11:24 EST Article-I.D.: heurikon.244 Posted: Sun Feb 26 02:11:24 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 29-Feb-84 14:01:59 EST References: <213@unisoft.UUCP> Organization: Heurikon Corp., Madison WI Lines: 20 > Electric blankest have their thermostats in the blanket, not in > the control box. Thus they do actually measure the temperature > under the blanket. > Ed Gould ucbvax!mtxinu!ed Ed: Then how come when I take my control box apart I find a bi-metal strip with a little heater coil wrapped around it? And how come my control box clicks on and off all night? And how come when the control box clicks "on" my blanket gets warmer and when it clicks "off" the blanket gets colder? And how come if I put the control box *under* the blanket things cool off? And how come the temperature control knob is on the control box? And how come... Ah, I know! You California types don't have what we call "electric blanket savvy". Either that or they aren't making blankets like they used to. -- /"""\ Jeffrey Mattox, Heurikon Corp, Madison, WI |O.O| {harpo, hao, philabs}!seismo!uwvax!heurikon!jeff (news & mail) \_=_/ ihnp4!heurikon!jeff (mail - fast)