Captain Beeky formulated on Friday : > On 21 Jan 2010, at 22:39, Brian on Harnser wrote: > >> Don't you have a programmer so it comes on half an hour before you get >> up in the morning? > > Yes we do (7 days all singing & dancing) , but no we don't use it. > > Two reasons > > 1) there is no such thing as a regular "getting up time" in our family > and it's a faff to programme anyway. > > 2) although I may be single handedly destroying the ice caps I > subscribe to managing the temperature consistently rather than with > ups and downs on a time basis. It's complicated on the boat where > generally speaking the Squirrel provides plenty of heat when we are on > board. At home we leave the heating on 24 hours and manually adjust > the temperature 10/12 if we're going away, 14/16 at night or when we > pop out, 18/20 during the waking hours. With half decent insulation > this doesn't seem like an inefficient option. > > The point about the Mikuni is that there must be a way to put in a > control that says " right then - you asked me to fire so I won't stop > for an hour" and I'm surprised that it isn't commercially available > or, for the price of a chinese chiplet, a standard fit ! On a further > rake around the memory I'm wondering if it was Gibbo or perhaps JT, on > the UKRECW channel, who was chuntering about this topic in the dim and > distant. So why not set the timer to come on at say 8 pm and off at 9pm and then set the thermostat to 26C that should make it run for an hour. I chose those times to have the boat hottest at night when the weather is coldest and not to late to disturb people with the noise.
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