Motion Sensor Thermostats

[rg35]

Hope these proliferate. Conservation is important. Leaving the A/C on all the time in a room is wasteful. Humanity survived for thousands of years without any air conditioning at all.

 

[PrincessArlena'sDad]

Hope these proliferate. Conservation is important. Leaving the A/C on all the time in a room is wasteful. Humanity survived for thousands of years without any air conditioning at all.

And for thousands of years, humanity didn't build hotel rooms in Florida with ac being the only ventilation, either.

 

[Disney & ME]

Weight does not have to do with whether or not someone is sensitive to temperature, there are many factors. Being from Maine I have acclimated to cold temperatures, without being "fluffy", and I actually asked to have the AC adjusted cooler when I last stayed at the Poly. Maintenance did that so we could drop below the set temp, but when we would come back from 100 degree days, at random times during the day, we found the air off and the room warm. It did take a lot to get it cool again and more energy to do that rather than keeping a constant temp.

There is another thread about the fans being removed from the Poly which I think is wrong. Those who don't want it as cool could keep just the fan on, and it also helps circulate the air. I guess I will be calling maintenance again the next time I go.

 

[cobright]

I think this is where hotels are getting into consumer fraud. If you just show me the real temperature at all times, fine, I can adjust to that. But it's maddening when it is reading one thing and the actual temp is another. I am going to bring a temperature gauge next time, that should be a fun experiment

It's technically not lying to you, it's just showing you the setpoint instead of the actual temp. But, yeah, it's a dirty trick. I've linked to the installation manual for the DDC2 and this 'feature' is called "Occupied Setbacks", a hidden limit to how much cooling you get even when the room is occupied. I tested this with a separate thermometer at CBR in 2014 and with temp set to 67F the AC ran for a while and then stopped (as if it had reached it's setpoint) but the air temp was still 72F. As soon as the air temp rose to 74F the AC kicked back on. This was back when the system was pretty new. From what I have read those setback temps seem to have been adjusted and this is less of an issue.

Hope these proliferate. Conservation is important. Leaving the A/C on all the time in a room is wasteful. Humanity survived for thousands of years without any air conditioning at all.

Generally speaking, AC has a very positive environmental effect. It allows us to live in areas where it is warmer, and it takes far less energy to cool an environment from 90F to 70F than it does to heat it from 0 to 70F

That's saying nothing about the toll heat takes on the body. An 8 day heat wave struck France in 2003 and killed 14,000 people (mostly elderly). 8 days of 100F temps is basically what Texas calls a week and a day in July.

 

[Scott MC]

the heavier a person is, the warmer they tend to feel.

This comment is hurtful and not true.

 

[Scott MC]

lol It is a generalization but really...my fluffier friends say things like "I'm never cold!" We live in Canada and they are the only friends who go outside in capris and a hoodie in -15C. I fight with people at work all the time because they want the buildings ac turned down yet 75% of us are already freezing. lol

Generalization is the truest word here. While apparently true for you, not true for the masses, and a hurtful stereotype!

 

[AnnaKat]

We had the opposite problem in Nov. 2016. The cash studio we had @ Jambo House was set @ 65. We checked in after 7, and headed out to Epcot.
We got back to the room after 10.

We set the thermostat to warm up the room. It never warmed up,
and I was too cold to fall asleep!
(The temp only went up a fraction of a degree after hours & hours).

My husband went down to the front desk to see about getting extra blankets. They did not care that only cold air ran no matter what temp was set!

The 65 degrees was so cold for me that I had to wear my husband's fleece jacket & my wool cap in order to sleep!

It still bothers me that you can pay all that $$$ for a room and the temp cannot be adjusted!
65 degrees was too cold @ night!

 

[ArwenMarie]

It's technically not lying to you, it's just showing you the setpoint instead of the actual temp. But, yeah, it's a dirty trick. I've linked to the installation manual for the DDC2 and this 'feature' is called "Occupied Setbacks", a hidden limit to how much cooling you get even when the room is occupied. I tested this with a separate thermometer at CBR in 2014 and with temp set to 67F the AC ran for a while and then stopped (as if it had reached it's setpoint) but the air temp was still 72F. As soon as the air temp rose to 74F the AC kicked back on. This was back when the system was pretty new. From what I have read those setback temps seem to have been adjusted and this is less of an issue.


Generally speaking, AC has a very positive environmental effect. It allows us to live in areas where it is warmer, and it takes far less energy to cool an environment from 90F to 70F than it does to heat it from 0 to 70F

That's saying nothing about the toll heat takes on the body. An 8 day heat wave struck France in 2003 and killed 14,000 people (mostly elderly). 8 days of 100F temps is basically what Texas calls a week and a day in July.

I'm confused...how is that not deceitful? It's showing you the number you entered, not the temp of the room. Maybe I am not getting it

 

[PrincessArlena'sDad]

I'm confused...how is that not deceitful? It's showing you the number you entered, not the temp of the room. Maybe I am not getting it

He did say it was a "dirty trick." I think he's agreeing with you that it's deceitful. He just said it's not "lying," meaning it is showing you the temperature you attempted to set it at. It's then programmed not to allow it to reach that temperature.

 

[Inkling]

I had no idea about the motion sensors. That would explain why we couldn't keep our room cool at POR last week and had to use the fan to help cool the room down faster Now I know, I guess.

 

[cph706]

Do the Beach Club Villas have this kind of thermostat?

 

[goofyintoronto]

This comment is hurtful and not true.

I agree Scott. @Shanti @HeatherLassell Thats a hurtful and terrible stereotype to assume all "fluffier" folks are always warm/hot/overheated. Just horrible.

Generalization is the truest word here. While apparently true for you, not true for the masses, and a hurtful stereotype!

exactly.

As for the motion sensor, I agree that its wasteful to have the a/c running while your at the parks all day. I believe I stayed in a room that had the motion sensor....cant remember which resort. As i've stayed at pretty much all of the values and mods. Not all of them have the sensor a/c. But I honestly didnt mind it much. The temp was fine. Then again maybe I move around a lot while I sleep.

 

[ton80]

Hope these proliferate. Conservation is important. Leaving the A/C on all the time in a room is wasteful. Humanity survived for thousands of years without any air conditioning at all.

Do you drive a Prius ?

 

[HeatherLassell]

I agree Scott. @Shanti @HeatherLassell Thats a hurtful and terrible stereotype to assume all "fluffier" folks are always warm/hot/overheated. Just horrible.

Nowhere in my reply did I say "ALL" anything. I simply said in MY experience MY fluffier friends are always on the hotter side while I'm always turning the A/C off in the car/work/home cause I'm freezing.

 

[HeatherLassell]

I'll apologize that anyone was offended by my comment and we can get the thread back on track.

 

[DLgal]

I think the bigger issue isn't these thermostats, per se, but the aging and often BROKEN/inefficient A/C units in the rooms. We stayed at GF last year for the first time. The room had a fancy new thermostat, but the room was HOT. Like, 85 degrees hot, with the A/C set to the lowest temp. The maintenance guy came and aimed his infared sensor at the vent and the air blowing out was 79 degrees. He spent like 2 hours working on the unit, and finally got it to blow cooler air, but basically said "this unit is 11 years old...it doesn't work too good anymore."

I'm sorry, that is inexcusable for their flagship resort. When he took the wall panel off and I saw the unit, it was disgusting. Rusted, smelly, dusty as all heck.

The ceiling fan saved us. The room never got cold, but we dealt with it because we had already switched rooms once due to getting one without a daybed originally and it took them over 30 minutes to find us a daybed room that was not occupied.

I had a similar experience at Coronado Springs in 2014. Just old, worn out AC.

A fancy new thermostat won't help when the unit needs to be replaced.

 

[Beer Me]

For some reason I'm fascinated by those of you who want the room temp below 68. What are you hanging meat?

 

[ErinsMommy]

For some reason I'm fascinated by those of you who want the room temp below 68. What are you hanging meat?

When you come inside from outside in extremely hot/humid weather where temps feel like 100+, below 65-66 isn't all that cold.

 

[Ariel Wanna-be]

When you come inside from outside in extremely hot/humid weather where temps feel like 100+, below 65-66 isn't all that cold.

Lol - this just shows how comfort levels are all over the spectrum. After being outside in high temperatures (which is pretty much a given here in Louisiana), a 75° room feels positively Arctic.

 

[ErinsMommy]

Lol - this just shows how comfort levels are all over the spectrum. After being outside in high temperatures (which is pretty much a given here in Louisiana), a 75° room feels positively Arctic.

And this is probably why DH still hasn't taken the fleece blanket off the bed yet. LOL.