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W Celsius (europe.pub)
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An American using the inferior Fahrenheit system and a European using the superior Celsius system which is way easier
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[–] 7 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Having the more granular temperature seems more practical. I often find myself adjusting my thermostat by just a single degree F. Do heating/ac thermostats in Europe use half degrees as increments? Even then I don’t think it’s as granular. But just integer values would be super annoying.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    I have not seen any thermostats in Europe with decimal degrees. But I also don't think a thermostat is necessarily accurate to that level anyway.

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    lol you don’t think it’s accurate to a degree Fahrenheit? Why wouldn’t it be?

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Because it's mass produced consumer goods operating on a "below x temperature turn on heat/turn off AC" and "above y temperature turn off heat/turn on AC". Old ones are just bimetallic strips where you change the trigger position with a slider, and modern ones use commodity grade temperature sensors, and neither is guaranteed to be placed particularly far from the vent.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    The sensor is typically on the thermostat. Not at the vents. You would typically place the sensor in a central location in the house. A high quality multi speed motor AC is designed to keep a decently consistent temperature which is a bit more complex than just turn on / turn off. If you’re dropping $15k to $30k on central AC, they aren’t going to cheap out on a poor quality temp sensor.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    It's just not that fine tuned of an instrument. The furnace also runs on intervals so it's just going to naturally fluctuate a bit. Like with anything "it depends", but I doubt it's possible to keep the room within a tenth of a centigrade just with a consumer level thermostat. Maybe in a small room with resistive heating? I'd love to see actual measurements of this.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Thermostats are not exactly calibrated machines unless you spend for a high end model. Put a few next to each other and they might differ 1°C, 2°F. Worse if you take the really cheap stuff.

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