New Rite Temp Thermostat (8022C)

Weezbo

- 45 F outside and she decided to turn one of the two zones down before retiring last night:) my thought is, turn the t stat to where you feel comfortable and leave it alone...:) disregard anything it might be saying :))

Richard Herring

New Thermostat (Rite Temp) - Stays on Too long ?

All,

I have a house built in the 1930's with a one pipe steam, with a milli volt on the boiler. I recently replaced the thermostat with a digital programmable (http://www.ritetemp-thermostats.com/8022C.html) thermostat.

The system now fires up, taking about a 30-40 minutes for all the radiators to fully heat. Once the system was fully charged, I thought the boiler was supposed to go off ?

Now when the system is fully charged, the boiler cycles on and off until the Thermostat is satisfied. Is that normal ?

It seems very wasteful. Sorta defeats the purpose of dropping my heat at night and bringing it back up in the morning.

Do I need to get another thermostat ? Recommendations ?

Thanks,

Rich

John Van Hoesen_2

I have this same t-stat

And it works just fine... I have it set for:

7:30AM = 63 degrees
9:00AM = 60 degrees
5:00PM = 63 degrees
10:00PM = 56 degrees

When the boiler comes on warm, it takes about 8 minutes to get heat in the first couple of sections and about 20 minutes to warm the all sections. Usually runs about 25-30 minutes to satisfy the t-stat. Shuts off as soon as it hits the desired temp and doesn't cycle back on until the temp drops below desired temp.

Sounds like either a defective t-stat OR something with your boiler. Is it building pressure and then releasing between cycles?

cheers
J~

Richard Herring

Adjustable Anticipation

I am having the boiler cleaned today, hopefully that will fix the short cycling when the system is fully charged. If not I am going to try to get some more info, but it looks like I might have to buy a new t-stat with "adjustable anticipation".

From what I understand of the concept, the system runs, than is forced off after a period of time. Which is what used to happend with the old t-stat.

I am going to open a tech support e-mail with Rite Temp to see what they say.

63, 56 degrees. Yikes, that is cold. Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Rich

John Van Hoesen_2

Would love to see

The results from your tech support conversation. Hope you can share it!

cheers
J~