Swap the thermostat's backup battery so an outage can't wipe its schedule, the volunteer fire department's day room thermostat, Kenedy, TX 78119 (Karnes County).

The volunteer fire department's day room thermostat has no working backup battery, so a brief power blip drops its stored schedule and reverts it to a blank factory-default program -- it runs whatever setpoint the factory shipped with until someone notices and reprograms it from scratch.

Where

the volunteer fire department's day room thermostat, Kenedy, TX 78119 (Karnes County); best-estimate location near the town center, exact address not confirmed · Open the map

Pay

$80 proposed

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Proof

before program record + battery-swap photo + post-swap program match + simulated-outage retention test + GPS

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

entry

Open until

2026-09-19

Posted by

0x034F…6c89

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How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. 1. Read and record the thermostat's current full schedule program before touching the battery.
2. 2. Open the thermostat's battery compartment and swap the backup battery for a fresh one of the manufacturer's specified type.
3. 3. Confirm the display still shows the same schedule program immediately after the swap.
4. 4. Simulate a power interruption at the breaker for the manufacturer's minimum test interval, then restore power and confirm the schedule program is still intact, not reverted to factory default.

What counts as done

• Full schedule program record taken before the battery swap
• Battery-swap photo showing the fresh battery of the manufacturer-specified type installed
• Photo of the schedule program immediately after the swap, matched against the before record
• Simulated power-interruption test result: program still intact afterward, not reverted to factory default

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Energy Efficiency Audit. Energy efficiency work begins with the walkthrough audit, the kind the ASHRAE standard describes: a trained eye moving through a building, reading the bills, the walls, the lights, and the equipment, and coming out with the short list of fixes worth doing first. Mastery looks like an auditor who can feel where a building is bleeding money within the hour, and prove it on paper. That instinct is trained by repetition on real buildings. This packet is one repetition: one system observed, one reading taken, one finding recorded the way the standard asks.