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   Your Name to Stephen Harker   
   Re: Pearls Before Swine: Cell Phone Upda   
   24 Oct 25 20:39:38   
   
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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-10-24 05:32:26 +0000, Stephen Harker said:   
   > Titus G  writes:   
   >> On 24/10/25 10:35, Cryptoengineer wrote:   
   >>> On 10/23/2025 12:14 PM, Paul S Person wrote:   
   >> snip   
   >>>>   
   >>>> If it is true that the temps are intended to be "set once, leave   
   >>>> forever", I think the entire issue becomes ... moot.   
   >>   
   >> Friends who have underfloor heating as well as heat pumps, set both to   
   >> 20 degrees Centigrade when their house was built three years ago and   
   >> have left it at that temperature ever since.   
   >   
   > I set mine at 18 C for winter and 27 C for summer.   
      
   Those look like they're the wrong way around ... unless you like   
   freezing in winter and baking in sumer.  :-)   
      
      
      
      
   > I rarely turn it on in summer as it takes three days of high 30's or   
   > 40's (C) to warm up enough to require cooling in Melbourne.   
   >   
   > In winter I usually turn it off during the day when at work and   
   > manually turn it on in winter when it is cool enough to warrant it.  I   
   > could program it to come on in the afternoon to bank solar, but usually   
   > am back in time to do so.   
      
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