willpope

I'm replacing an old mercury thermostat with a new ritetemp thermostat 8050C...there are a dozen connector terminals, and awful directions...I have a red, white a green wire coming out of the wall, and need to connect each (actually the green ground was never connected to anything. Anyone know where the red and white should go? (out of a choice of C, W2, RC, O, B, RH, W, Y, G, A?)

[?] I'M hoping someone can give me the definitive answer on this question...I use a pocket voltage detector going through my inspections..and on roughly half of the outlets and switches I inspect, I get a 'hot' read on the entire outlet or switch...and then the other half have no reading. I'm guessing this is a grounding (no ground) situation? or is this 'phantom' power, a leak of some kind? Why is that it literally occurs on about half of the outlets and switches in the houses in my neighborhood/area of bozeman, montana? I get the same read by touching an electrical lamp cord, etc. so I'm assuming this isn't evidence of a dangerous situation, but what's irritating about that is that you don't really know when something IS dangerous...it's all a little too amorphous for me. I have a design to solder a 15000 0hm resistor onto a lamp cord to ferret out phantom power. And I will. But I'm hoping some great soul will give me the lowdown on this so I can put my clients at ease when my voltage detector keeps going off like the fourth of july... Thanks in Advance, Will Pope Bozeman, Montana

I lived in Dallas and had Bois d'arc piers and joists. someone left an unused joist under there and I took it out and used it...but I went through two carbide saw blades, and it sent sparks the whole time, like metal on metal...