And I forgot to say, If this was implemented where ever possible, at $15 - it could even make a noticeable dent in the green gas emission in Victoria, given there would be a large number of houses where it could appy. .... possibly many "pinkbats" layers equivalent for a fraction of the cost!!! Someone else might do the sum for me! Daniel. PS: Unless proof to the contrary is provided, I hereby claim first rights to this idea, and releases it under a GPL 3.0 license!!
every 15 minutes. You can set the timing to suit your needs. Depending on the time, I sometimes set it to come on only 15 mins in a 1 hr period on a typical evening. Its mostly off during the day. You can set it to give a real temperature boost in that 15 mins that last the rest of the hour.
I can say that the first time I did this, my gas heating bill move from not a much below $400 to about $180, for the same period in the year, at the peak of winter!! No exaggeration!! When you think about it it makes sense. It gives me very fine control on the heating.
However it seems that this does not work well with all heater model. At a friends place, his heater did not like the frequent on-off cycles. And the pilot lamp tended to go off every few days. Not sure why.
Cheers, Daniel
I figured it would pay for itself in a couple of years of power bills savings. Those little Android dongles, like the RK808, sometimes styled "Google TV" are pretty cheap (around $50 these days) and would make that trade-off even more attractive -- though it depends on what your needs are. There are efforts going on to run say Debian natively on such devices (rather than in say a chroot). I use my Raspberry Pi often as a low-end desktop machine and it's mostly usable for simple things -- if a bit laggy at times. I wonder how much faster it would run off an external USB drive instead of the SD card. I suspect that swap is the main laggy factor.
-- Smiles, Les. _______________________________________________ luv-talk mailing list luv-talk@lists.luv.asn.au http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-talk
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