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I would love to have one of these as "self adjusting/learning" gadgets are well in my "gotta have" bucket. However, my family is in the house almost all the ti
by michaelcampbell 15y ago
I would love to have one of these as "self adjusting/learning" gadgets are well in my "gotta have" bucket. However, my family is in the house almost all the time so we don't have the typical out-of-the-house-back-at-the-same-time behavior this thing seems geared towards. I'm not sure what it could really "learn".
Too, at $250, it's almost a 2 year payback period in close to the best of circumstances; that seems a bit on the high side for me.
But it's just nifty as all hell, and I think I'd really like the ability to adjust it from anywhere; in case we forget when we leave for vacation or something, but the payback there would be long after I'm dead.
- tsumnia 15y agoI mentioned in a little more detail in my other comment, but by learning/detecting your occupancy schedule, it can know when to turn the system on/off itself. Its as if someone was standing at your thermostat 24/7 micromanaging your temperature.
- michaelcampbell 15y ago> Its as if someone was standing at your thermostat 24/7 micromanaging your temperature. That'd be my wife and 11 year old, and almost never towards the "save money" end of the continuum. ;-)
- tsumnia 15y agoYou'd be surprised, constantly manually changing the thermostat can have adverse effects, but with PID-based management system, you attempt to heat/cool a little past the target temperature before occupancy. From there you occasionally cool/heat when it hits a deadband of, say, 2 degrees back to the target temperature. After analyzing bills and normalizing area weather, we've been able to show 8-15% savings.