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Going back in time
On Tue, 10 May 2016 11:12:16 -0500, "Ryan P."
wrote: On 5/10/2016 11:04 AM, wrote: I just pulled out my solid state programmable thermostat and put in a good old Honeywell T-87. We never used the programming function, the display was hard to read and the thing ate batteries. Anyone want a SS thermostat? How old is your furnace? Anything less than 10-15 years and you should have a common wire to power your thermostat and the batteries should just be a backup. I hooked up the common wire but it still eats batteries I have a Hunter (discontinued) thermostat installed... Its a pain in the ass to read unless you are staring straight at it with the backlight on, but I haven't found another thermostat with a "refresh" option that cycles the fan for 15 minutes if the furnace/AC hasn't kicked in for over an hour. Not very useful in the winter, but its great in the summer to keep the electric bill down. If the A/C is on around here, it is seldom that it does not run in 15 minutes. That would usually indicate that the system was sized too big. Winter? I have not heard of this thing ;-) My heating season is a few days a year and usually my wife deals with it using the 1440w heater in the electric fireplace. She just knocks the chill off the living room in the morning. I have not used the toaster wire heat in the air handler since we bought it (2014). I assume it works but I didn't test it with the new thermostat. |
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