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a tiny dictator on the wall everyone fights but no one is allowed to touch
means a device that automatically regulates temperature by switching heating or cooling on and off to hold a set point.
from Stitched together from Greek parts: thermos, 'hot' (the same root behind 'thermometer' and the vacuum flask), plus -stat, from histanai, 'to make stand' or 'to keep steady' — the same -stat that steadies a 'gyrostat.' So the word literally means 'heat-stander,' a thing that makes the temperature stand still. A 19th-century coinage from the age when inventors loved naming gadgets in tidy Greek.
- bimetal trick
- two bonded metals bend at different rates to flip the switch
- dummy units
- many office thermostats are placebos connected to nothing
- old age
- thermostatic control dates back to the 1600s
- degree wars
- couples burn relationships over a single degree
- learns you
- smart models predict your habits to preheat the house
nest learning thermostat — smart thermostat by google that learns user behavior, launched 2011, controls ~40% of smart home thermostats in us
honeywell home t9 — wifi thermostat with remote sensors, honeywell's leading smart model competing with nest since 2017
ecobee smartthermostat — voice-enabled thermostat with alexa built-in, launched 2017, popular alternative in canadian and us markets