Title. We keep ours at 75F, parents do 77F, and in laws 68F. It made me curious what everyone else keeps theirs at?
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The electronic thing on the wall that controls the temperature of your heater or air conditioner.
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older ones are often electrical, but not really electronic. they use a bimetal strip that bends due to changing temperatures, to complete a circuit at the point you set the slider. it’s actually a really fascinatingly simple bit of tech.
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Mine growing up used a bit of mercury in a sealed vial mounted to that bimetallic strip.
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any idea what the mercury was for? something about getting the heat in and out of the strip faster maybe?
