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Your Thermostat Is Reading the Wall - Short #308
In this short podcast episode, Bryan talks about why your thermostat is reading the wall, not the actual air temperature.
A thermostat is an instrument designed to read temperature (and sometimes humidity); it displays those readings based on sensors and makes decisions. Most of these sensors are thermistors, which are resistors that change resistance with changes in temperature. Thermistors have low mass and respond to radiant, convective, and conductive heat.
Air coming through the wall (convective heat), the temperature of the things around the thermostat (radiant heat), AND the wall…
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