Just curious how many out there are using a programmable thermostat and having success with it running the program? I have one and love it.
I inherited the stove from previous homeowner and it had a manual stat attached just sitting on the mantle above. I used that and it worked just fine. Once we replaced everything in the house with programmable of course I had to try one on the stove.
About 2 years ago my findings were that there is a very important setting called 'SWING' that the thermostat must have. This setting means that the temperature set point is not a hard stop/start. For example if I set the thermostat to 70 degrees with swing set at 0 (or if there is no swing option), it will click on at 69.5 or lower calling for heat, and click off at 70.5. This is no good because as we all know the stoves take 10-20 minutes to shut down and equally as long to get up to temp and start heating the room. In the dead of winter with a cold room it takes nothing for the stove to heat the room to 70.5, the thermostat to stop calling for heat, the stove to begin its 20 minute shutdown process and within 5-10 minutes the room to drop to 69.5 and call for heat again, thus interrupting the shutdown process. You end up with a stove that never shuts down or starts and stops too frequently.
Enter the swing setting, I have mine set at 1.5 degrees. If I set thermostat to 70, it won't stop calling for heat until it hits 71.5. Likewise it won't call for heat again until room is 68.5. That cushion gives the stove plenty of time to rest.
When the stove is operating properly (no nuisance shutdowns, etc) it works very well. Comes on during night (at a lower temp than day) as needed, heats up the area in the morning before we wake up etc.
Important, I started with a honeywell thermostat and found they don't use "SWING" settings anymore, they had something else that simply did not work. I returned it for a Filtrete that specifically mentioned the setting and never looked back.
Seems most shops discourage the use of programmables, anyone else have experience good or bad with em?
I inherited the stove from previous homeowner and it had a manual stat attached just sitting on the mantle above. I used that and it worked just fine. Once we replaced everything in the house with programmable of course I had to try one on the stove.
About 2 years ago my findings were that there is a very important setting called 'SWING' that the thermostat must have. This setting means that the temperature set point is not a hard stop/start. For example if I set the thermostat to 70 degrees with swing set at 0 (or if there is no swing option), it will click on at 69.5 or lower calling for heat, and click off at 70.5. This is no good because as we all know the stoves take 10-20 minutes to shut down and equally as long to get up to temp and start heating the room. In the dead of winter with a cold room it takes nothing for the stove to heat the room to 70.5, the thermostat to stop calling for heat, the stove to begin its 20 minute shutdown process and within 5-10 minutes the room to drop to 69.5 and call for heat again, thus interrupting the shutdown process. You end up with a stove that never shuts down or starts and stops too frequently.
Enter the swing setting, I have mine set at 1.5 degrees. If I set thermostat to 70, it won't stop calling for heat until it hits 71.5. Likewise it won't call for heat again until room is 68.5. That cushion gives the stove plenty of time to rest.
When the stove is operating properly (no nuisance shutdowns, etc) it works very well. Comes on during night (at a lower temp than day) as needed, heats up the area in the morning before we wake up etc.
Important, I started with a honeywell thermostat and found they don't use "SWING" settings anymore, they had something else that simply did not work. I returned it for a Filtrete that specifically mentioned the setting and never looked back.
Seems most shops discourage the use of programmables, anyone else have experience good or bad with em?
