Thermostat help

RoosterBoy

hi can someone please tell me if honneywell or anyone makes a thermostat that will heat my house to 72
and not call for heat untill the temp reaches 68
insted of 71

thanks

Unknown

If you want to be creative

This will work for you. It isn't a thermostat in the classic sense, but it will do exactly what you want to do.

http://hbctechlit.honeywell.com/techlit/PDF/63-0000s/63-1151.pdf

Noel

Joel M

Why not set it at 70 and leave it alone?

Plumbob

He wants a large window between the 'on' temperature (68) and the 'off' temperature (72). Telling him to leave it at 70 is not helpful.

To the original poster: I know of no simple way of doing what you want to do, but in many Honeywells you can set the number of cycles per hour, and setting it to one cycle per hour (typically described as the steam setting) will help, although it still won't give you a 4 degree temperature swing. On some other brand thermostats you can set the temperature difference between off and on, which is what you want, but I don't think you can go as high as 4 degrees.

It might help if you said what the problem is that causes you to want this undesirable thermostat behavior. There may be other ways to solve the problem.

David Efflandt

Cheap electronic thermostats do that

You apparently want a cheap electronic thermostat like a Lux or RobertShaw that allows you to set the +- temperature spread instead of having automatic or adjustable anticipation.

For example, if set to +-2, you would set the thermostat to 70 and it would drop to 68 before turning on, and rise to 72 before shutting off. Or the original thermostat that came in my house (1-pipe steam) would overshoot a degree or two, so even a setting of +-1 gave a 3-4 degree F spread.

My Honeywell electronic thermostat that learns how to keep the temperature right on is much more comfortable, at a lower temperature setting. And no hot flashes (just overshoots a little if weather suddenly turns mild).