Used to be team no-calculators, but yeah this changed my mind completely.

Tbh I did the same thing with RG6 for like a year before someone finally pointed it out. Such a tiny move but it was wrecking every termination.

Has anyone else noticed how we always look for the quick fix first before checking if the bigger conditions changed underneath? That shoal story sounds exactly like trying to patch a leaky pipe when you haven't checked the water pressure yet.

Oh man, I had the exact same battle with a Honeywell at my last place. I finally gave up and just factory reset the whole thing, then set it up from scratch with my own schedule. It took like 10 minutes and saved me from waking up at 6am in a sauna every day.

And building off what you're saying with Bob's fix, the grip thing is huge and I think a lot of people don't realize how much tension they're carrying. In my experience, once I loosened my grip on the hammer, it also changed how I was standing at the anvil. My stance got more stable because I wasn't fighting the tool anymore, my whole body just kind of relaxed into the rhythm. That extra tension probably cost me months of bad work too, it's wild how one little thing like grip pressure can ripple through everything else you're doing.