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   The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 20:45:13 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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   @JeremiahFieldhaven Nice!

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     Jeremiah Fieldhaven (jeremiahfieldhaven@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 20:45:14 JST Jeremiah Fieldhaven

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     So, I take the cover off the thermostat and carefully bridge the wires with a piece of cable (gingerly because this is an older boiler with 240V going to the thermostat). Heating kicks on immediately!

     I can hear the switch contact clicking when I adjust the temp, so my suspicion now is that the switch contacts are gunked up by decades of arcing. 15 minutes later when I'd worked out how to get to the contacts, sure enough they're completely black. Bit of cleaning later, and its working again.

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     Jeremiah Fieldhaven (jeremiahfieldhaven@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 20:45:15 JST Jeremiah Fieldhaven

     Woke up this morning, and the house is really chilly. On the one hand, this would not be surprising: coldest night so far this side of the year, and it snowed overnight. On the other, it is much colder than it should be because we should have technology to address this.

     Check the thermostat, it's set right... but when it clicks on, the combi-boiler does not. Fuck.

     Hot water works, though. So it's either the controller, the cables, or the thermostat.