Hotel: lightswitch also turns off ac
Aug 23, 2018, 6:53 pm
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Hotel: lightswitch also turns off ac
I am in hotel H10 in Berlin, one of the
places with a keycard slot to control power on in the room.
At bedtime we located the switch for the entrance light, and turned it off - however, it now seems to have been a mains switch for the room, as the ac is now off.
Help - how can I get the ac back without the
light? Not currently able to experiment a
whole lot as my companion is asleep :-( But
for me - too hot.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
DanishFlyer
places with a keycard slot to control power on in the room.
At bedtime we located the switch for the entrance light, and turned it off - however, it now seems to have been a mains switch for the room, as the ac is now off.
Help - how can I get the ac back without the
light? Not currently able to experiment a
whole lot as my companion is asleep :-( But
for me - too hot.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
DanishFlyer
Last edited by DanishFlyer; Aug 23, 2018 at 6:58 pm Reason: Typo in title
Aug 23, 2018, 7:54 pm
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Trying not to wake my roomie, I eventually used the flashlight on my phone - turns out I could manually turn the ac back on.
Ah, bliss. Back to sleep, I hope!
Thanks for your suggestions.
- DanishFlyer
Ah, bliss. Back to sleep, I hope!
Thanks for your suggestions.
- DanishFlyer
Aug 24, 2018, 1:26 pm
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Reminds me of the place I stayed where the AC would turn itself on and off depending on what a motion sensor thought was going on in the room. I couldn't get it to come on at all once I got into bed; I had to get out of bed and walk around to make it run for even a short time.
Aug 27, 2018, 3:28 pm
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I discovered pretty quickly that I could get the lights working again by removing the card from the slot by the door and reinserting it, but that also turned most of them on.
I can appreciate the value of a master switch to turn everything off, but it would be nice to label it and make it visually distinct from all the other switches in the room.
Aug 27, 2018, 3:52 pm
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It apparently goes for Nordic hotels in general. In fact, I had a couple of exchanges with the front desk a few weeks ago about the defective relay I'd diagnosed in our Helsinki room's wiring which periodically turned off all the room lights. Two days later, I realized there was a very poorly-placed, unlabeled master switch on each side of the headboard which was doing exactly what it was designed to do. The outer switch of each of these pairs controlled the reading lamp, but the inner switch -- the one you were really likely to hit with the pillow if, like Mrs. Goes, you like to place the pillow in a convenient orientation for sitting up in bed -- was the master switch which reset the room lights to the default.
I discovered pretty quickly that I could get the lights working again by removing the card from the slot by the door and reinserting it, but that also turned most of them on.
I can appreciate the value of a master switch to turn everything off, but it would be nice to label it and make it visually distinct from all the other switches in the room.
I discovered pretty quickly that I could get the lights working again by removing the card from the slot by the door and reinserting it, but that also turned most of them on.
I can appreciate the value of a master switch to turn everything off, but it would be nice to label it and make it visually distinct from all the other switches in the room.
but yeah, labels are nice, though I’d usually prefer forgoing a master switch in the first place, instead preferring individual switches
Aug 27, 2018, 4:48 pm
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