Some may remember that I grew 100's of thousands of African Violets back in the days of the houseplant craze. A breeder I worked with in Knoxville TN hired a worker for her greenhouse. This young lady brought her radio and played what was called hard rock at that time. This breeder/grower was world famous for her plants and watched them as close as anyone might. She felt that her violets were adversely affected by the music so she had UT to setup a blind test. The Universities conclusions were that the violets turned away from "hard rock" and turned toward "soft rock" further they turned away from "hard classical" and turned toward "lighter classical".

Thank you! It has darkened some but mostly equalizing now. It darkens some with the Danish oil, and with the sunlight. Likely reaching a final color. But it is really a lovely shade. It has taken us a long time to get here so some pieces have literally been here for months prior to others. For awhile you could definitely tell the progression of cabinet build progress by what was darker. It is all pretty consistent now and not too dark. The bookcase has been the last piece of casework to be built and even it is pretty similar to the others now. Everything got another coat of oil today as the cabinet maker continues to make final adjustments. So cool they just glow!

Well in fact, we do have an "orangerie", which is generally another name for a conservatory, as I learned from the British firm that built ours. However, it is open on one side to our indoor pool. The indoor pool air is kept dry through the use of an enormous piece of eqp called a Dectron. It is the reason no one ever feels any humidity when they come into our house, despite the indoor pool. But, it makes it very hard to grow plants in orangerie/conservatory/greenhouse. We have a disco ball in there and hula hoops instead, LOL. It's a great place for the kids to play loud music that we can't hear!

thanks. especially because the temps are supposed to be a bit more sane this week, I think I can wait until, hopefully, a tech gets out here late in the week. It is able to do some cooling. If you mean to bypass the actual overload PTC on the compressor that is cutting out...no I think that would be insanity. It's there for a reason. Or do you mean another thermal switch? My understanding is code 72 relates only to the compressor itself. There are other messages for other sensors. The troubleshooting guide says: If the control senses the compressor voltage after start--up, and is then absent for 10 consecutive seconds while cooling demand exists, it will de--energize the compressor contactor, keep the outdoor fan operating for 15 minutes (if 230v power present) and display the appropriate fault code. (See table 3) Possible causes are compressor internal overload trip or loss of high voltage (230V) to compressor without loss of control voltage. Now the interesting thing is, before I replaced the contactor, I was getting a lot of "no 230V to compressor" messages, in addition to the thermal cutoff messages. Now I'm just getting the thermal cutout messages. The control board on the outside unit has two leads that attach across the common and the start coil of the compressor, to detect the voltage. So I think if you are just getting the thermal cutoff message, it somehow detects that 230V is still on the line (contactor working), but there's no current flow in the windings because the internal overload is engaged. BTW years ago when this unit first started having trouble, I did get 82 codes (back then, the guy said it was the capacitor but I'm not privy to how he tested it) 82 is what happens when you have 4 consecutive 72s. These days I shut it off at the first 72 code and let it cool down. Now that I think about...Occam's razor at work...that could be it all over again. Maybe even though the cap. tests ok, it isn't.