Yowza! Last night when I was going to bed, the house was a chilly 66F upstairs, due to the past couple days of unseasonably cold temperatures. I pushed the heat level up from #3 to #4 and put some fans around the downstairs to try to channel air upstairs. Should have checked the weather report before falling asleep....
I woke up this morning to discover a warm front had descended... outside AND inside! It was 77F upstairs this morning! I turned the stove down, opened the attic door, tried a few other things. But man, it was sweltering. Which got me thinking...
It's clearly time for me to investigate running off of a thermostat. But I'm a little leery about trying to run a thermostat line from the upstairs hallway down to the room where the stove is. Does anybody know of wireless thermostats available for Breckwell Big-E's?
Next question... I got to thinking about how the thermostat would work. It will be able to increase and decrease the auger rate and the fan speed, since these are controlled via electronics. But the damper is a little plunger rod, controlled mechnanically and wouldn't be part of the electronic control system and thus, can't be handled by the automatic system (unless there's a servo motor in there somewhere I haven't noticed). This implies that the damper need not be adjusted when you change settings manually either. Is that correct? Is it a matter of getting the damper set right for any one setting, and all subsequent settings have the airflow scaled appropriately by the fan speed and I should be leaving the damper alone?
I ask this, because I move the damper out every time I change the heat setting manually. About 2/3 out for #4, about 1/2 out for #3 and about 1/3 out for #2. Something tells me I should be leaving that damper alone, eh? Again, this is a Brecwell Big-E.
Thanks.
I woke up this morning to discover a warm front had descended... outside AND inside! It was 77F upstairs this morning! I turned the stove down, opened the attic door, tried a few other things. But man, it was sweltering. Which got me thinking...
It's clearly time for me to investigate running off of a thermostat. But I'm a little leery about trying to run a thermostat line from the upstairs hallway down to the room where the stove is. Does anybody know of wireless thermostats available for Breckwell Big-E's?
Next question... I got to thinking about how the thermostat would work. It will be able to increase and decrease the auger rate and the fan speed, since these are controlled via electronics. But the damper is a little plunger rod, controlled mechnanically and wouldn't be part of the electronic control system and thus, can't be handled by the automatic system (unless there's a servo motor in there somewhere I haven't noticed). This implies that the damper need not be adjusted when you change settings manually either. Is that correct? Is it a matter of getting the damper set right for any one setting, and all subsequent settings have the airflow scaled appropriately by the fan speed and I should be leaving the damper alone?
I ask this, because I move the damper out every time I change the heat setting manually. About 2/3 out for #4, about 1/2 out for #3 and about 1/3 out for #2. Something tells me I should be leaving that damper alone, eh? Again, this is a Brecwell Big-E.
Thanks.
