Thag Play With Wires
Jan. 29th, 2008 06:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feste_sylvainEasy installation, they said.
Thag take thermostat out of clamshell. Thag use knife and not cut himself.
Thermostat comes with CD-ROM instructions. Thag watch CD-ROM. First thing CD-ROM says is "Select Thermostat" and shows Thag five different thermostats. The Thermostat Thag-wife bought is not one of them. So Thag pick one which looks most like the one in hand.
Then CD-ROM say "All you need is a Phillips head screwdriver, two AA batteries, a hammer, a power drill, a level, and a pocket screwdriver". Thag have pocket screwdriver. Thag-child finds two AA batteries. Thag looks in tool-cranny for Phillips head screwdriver. It not there. Thag finds Phillips head screwdriver in battery drawer. Thag has no idea why.
Thag listens to CD-ROM say how to pull five wires out of wall and tie them in place on a pencil. Thag look at wall, and sees two wires.
Thag reads instructions. They say that there can be two-wires for heat, and more wires for air conditioning and fans which Thag does not have. Okay. Thag puts CD-ROM back in clamshell, where it was happy.
Thag cannot find little sticky labels for wires, but that is okay, because Thag has two wires, one red and one white. Thag was going to assume that red wire goes in red wire slot and white wire goes in white wire slot, but Thag has been nailed by that before. So Thag reads instructions. Red wire goes in red wire slot, and white wire goes in white wire slot.
Thag unscrews old stupid 1977 thermostat off of wall. Thag puts back-plate of new thermostat on wall. Thag marks wall where new holes are. Thag pounds Phillips head screwdriver thru wall. Thag puts plaster bracket in hole. Thag hammers plaster bracket with butt-end of screwdriver. Perfect! Thag does it again on the other side. Perfect! Thag screws screws into plaster brackets with offended Phillips head screwdriver. Perfect! Thag forgot to use screwdriver as a level, but back-plate is level anyway. Perfect! Stupid CD-ROM.
Thag gets pocket screwdriver out, removes heating/cooling jumper wire just like instructions for two-wire thermostat tell him to. Then Thag puts red wire in red wire slot and white wire in white wire slot.
Thag puts two AA batteries in thermostat. Thag screws thermostat onto back-plate. Then Thag sets desired temperature and clock. Desired temperature is 64F.
Thermometer on thermostat tells Thag it is 86F in room.
Furnace guy comes tomorrow. Because it is 86F in room. New thermostat not helping.
Thag take thermostat out of clamshell. Thag use knife and not cut himself.
Thermostat comes with CD-ROM instructions. Thag watch CD-ROM. First thing CD-ROM says is "Select Thermostat" and shows Thag five different thermostats. The Thermostat Thag-wife bought is not one of them. So Thag pick one which looks most like the one in hand.
Then CD-ROM say "All you need is a Phillips head screwdriver, two AA batteries, a hammer, a power drill, a level, and a pocket screwdriver". Thag have pocket screwdriver. Thag-child finds two AA batteries. Thag looks in tool-cranny for Phillips head screwdriver. It not there. Thag finds Phillips head screwdriver in battery drawer. Thag has no idea why.
Thag listens to CD-ROM say how to pull five wires out of wall and tie them in place on a pencil. Thag look at wall, and sees two wires.
Thag reads instructions. They say that there can be two-wires for heat, and more wires for air conditioning and fans which Thag does not have. Okay. Thag puts CD-ROM back in clamshell, where it was happy.
Thag cannot find little sticky labels for wires, but that is okay, because Thag has two wires, one red and one white. Thag was going to assume that red wire goes in red wire slot and white wire goes in white wire slot, but Thag has been nailed by that before. So Thag reads instructions. Red wire goes in red wire slot, and white wire goes in white wire slot.
Thag unscrews old stupid 1977 thermostat off of wall. Thag puts back-plate of new thermostat on wall. Thag marks wall where new holes are. Thag pounds Phillips head screwdriver thru wall. Thag puts plaster bracket in hole. Thag hammers plaster bracket with butt-end of screwdriver. Perfect! Thag does it again on the other side. Perfect! Thag screws screws into plaster brackets with offended Phillips head screwdriver. Perfect! Thag forgot to use screwdriver as a level, but back-plate is level anyway. Perfect! Stupid CD-ROM.
Thag gets pocket screwdriver out, removes heating/cooling jumper wire just like instructions for two-wire thermostat tell him to. Then Thag puts red wire in red wire slot and white wire in white wire slot.
Thag puts two AA batteries in thermostat. Thag screws thermostat onto back-plate. Then Thag sets desired temperature and clock. Desired temperature is 64F.
Thermometer on thermostat tells Thag it is 86F in room.
Furnace guy comes tomorrow. Because it is 86F in room. New thermostat not helping.
