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A Common Thermostat Error:

A nice, toasty 70 degree temperature is what you want, and you want it now.

What do you do?

a) Set the thermostat to 70 degrees.

Instead, it can be compared to dropping two bowling balls off of an 80-story building, where one ball falls all the way to the ground, and the other hits a ledge on the tenth floor.

Which ball fell faster?

The obvious answer is that they both fell at the same speed. At the moment the one ball hit the ledge, the other ball was moving at exactly the same speed next to it. The only difference is that from this point forward the second ball will fall another ten stories.

There’s nothing to be gained by trying to “trick” the thermostat.