One of the things we’d noticed in the new condo was that the thermostats display in Fahrenheit, not Celsius. Personally, I have no concept of Fahrenheit temperature so that had to go. We tried playing around with the settings, fiddling with buttons, looking for switches, but to no avail. It stayed in Fahrenheit.
Tonight, going through some documents, Nellie found instructions on how to change it. It reads as follows:
- Bring the heat setting down to 52°F.
- Press the up and down arrows at the same time until the screen clears.
- Press the up arrow twice and then press the down arrow once. Then press the up arrow again until the setting changes to Celcius.
Well, my face is red. That’s so intuitive; how could I have not figured that out on my own?
[tags]thermostat, fahrenheit, celsius[/tags]
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Obviously, they didn’t want to use a key sequence that one might hit by accident. The digital controls on the oven in our flat are the same: you can’t set the alarm, change the time, or change the alarm type without the manual.
Would a toggle button to change from Celsius to Fahrenheit would be too much to ask for?
I’ll take Fahrenheit any day for temperature. When it says 82F you know its hot, 32C just doesn’t have the same impact on me.
Luddite.
I think this issue goes deeper than that. It stems from trips to Florida each winter where there was a great big sign that flashed the temp in F at our condo.
Condo in Florida?
Yuppie luddite. Yuppite.