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What kind of thermometer am I looking for?


Zero Knievel

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At the office, the AC/Heat goes out easily. Any power flux can make the water pump or chiller shut down. If it happens over a weekend, the office can be freezing/sweltering depending on what it's like outside. The system needs a manual restart, and the only way we find out it's happened is when the first person arrives and can tell it's not working.

I'm looking for an inexpensive solution. I'm sure by now they make thermometers/thermostats that can send a text or e-mail alert when temperatures rise or fall below set levels, but my Google-fu is sucking here. I'm either getting expensive and elaborate systems that are well-beyond what we need or run-of-the-mill thermometers that don't even fit what I'm thinking of.

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So now you're going to respond to text alerts when the temp is too high/low in your office? Are you the new hvac guy?

Call someone. There are lots of guys in the south that do this for a living.

Even if it costs 2000 bucks to fix, the payback will be very quick on energy savings. It costs a ton to get an office frigid in the middle of the summer.

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Well, my idea is to get whomever is responsible to be the recipient of the text/e-mail alert so they can come in and reset the system rather than let it sit until Monday morning.

The thought occurred to me. If I can ID the product that would do the job affordable, I'd then push the office manager to suggest it to the owner.

The obvious fix of some kind of UPS/backup to prevent the problem fails because no affordable UPS option will keep the 240v side running for long, and the time lag for a backup to kick in would still necessitate a manual reset. If we had regular windows, we would have installed window AC/heat units by now.

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Well, my idea is to get whomever is responsible to be the recipient of the text/e-mail alert so they can come in and reset the system rather than let it sit until Monday morning.

That is the person that needs to corridinate the fixing of this.

Concentrate on your day job.

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Jesus Christ - is good you're alone. Not sure there is a human on the planet that could put up with your minute by minute drama.

Actually it seems that there is a whole forum that can and does. ;) So what does that say about us? I'm feeling bad about myself right now. :wacko:

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Jesus Christ - is good you're alone. Not sure there is a human on the planet that could put up with your minute by minute drama.

It's not drama, Dave. I'm curious as to if someone's seen a product like what I'm thinking of.

Tapping into the vast brainpower that is the .ORG.

You should count yourself privileged. :wub:

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Jesus Christ - is good you're alone. Not sure there is a human on the planet that could put up with your minute by minute drama.

It's not drama, Dave. I'm curious as to if someone's seen a product like what I'm thinking of.

Tapping into the vast brainpower that is the .ORG.

You should count yourself privileged. :wub:

Hey dopey - it's bullshit drama.

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Thermostat - dude.

You're not the only person thinking this way these days.

http://www.amazon.com/Honeywell-RTH9580WF-Wi-Fi-Smart-Thermostat/dp/B00FLZEQH2

Zero, you clearly didnt look too hard.

BTW, can get the cheaper one....

http://www.amazon.com/Honeywell-RTH6580WF-Wi-Fi-Programmable-Thermostat/dp/B00A97FIG0/

I have two of them, got for free after the $100 rebate from the utility program.

You can program email alerts for the temps.

You will need a "C" wire available at the t-stat, so just forget about using it to control the heat or a/c, maybe not th8ere, and besides, dont need you to screw up the system.

Just get a 24v power supply and wire it to the R & C terminals on the t-stat and just use it to monitor the temp. No need to control the hvac system with it.

http://www.amazon.com/Class-II-Transformer-Approved-MGT-2440/dp/B004VMVDTA/

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I think that would work good Mike. Plug it in near their t-stat and set the warnings maybe 2 degrees from the setpoint of the main t-stat.

If this is always an issue when you have a power outage event, maybe another option is a network connected backup power ups system.

Once setup for alerts, it can warn you when there has been an outage. The ones on all my my servers do that.

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