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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Not American. What’s a thermostat?

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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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Only God knows

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It controls your furnace and air conditioner in your house

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Thermostat isn’t an American term.

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Google search would have answered that.

It’s what controls the furnace or air conditioner in your house. That way you can control how hot or cold your house is.

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That depends. For example in a lot of Europe there aren’t any air conditioners in houses, so it only controls heating.

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