I woke up at 6 and felt cold on my feet, I am most uncomfortable when my feet are cold. Not knowing about the heat, I went out to check it and thus saw it was off. Alicia was just heading back that direction from letting the dog in, saw me at the thermostat and relayed her previous findings. I turned it back on and it began warming up the house.
Come time to head off to work, I didn't want to take a chance that cold air would blow all day, so I turned the unit off.
Nine hours later ...
We arrived home from work, to a very big chill in the house. One of those kind of chills food gets when you put it in the refrigerator. 53° is what the thermostat was showing. I turned the system up to 74° and warmish air began to flow rapidly throughout the house.
Two hours later ...
I wanted to check on the progress of the house heating, I touched the light button on the bottom of the ritetemp thermostat, (the unit at bottom left) and received the shock of my life, (play on words for certain). I have received small static shocks on numerous occasions from that unit, but this would be my last. The back light did not turn on, the digital display now flashed between 12:00 and 69°. The adjustment setting was only on 69°. Poor delicate digital thermostat has received its limit of shocking touches and now no longer worked.
"Off to Lowes.", I tell my dear wife.
"Why?", she asked.
What I really said was, "To buy a new thermostat."
Condensing for you, the reader's sake ...
I installed a new Honeywell wi-fi thermostat, (middle right, with quick guide as background) and we both slept soundly all night long.
NOT!!!!!!
After only 20 minutes, the heat went out again. It's going to be a very cold night. I'm simply too tired and cold to try and figure this out further
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