Skytech (3301p) wireless thermostat

[Cheeks]

Hi,
Last year I bought a Skytech 3301p wireless thermostat and used it all winter. It worked great to help regulate the temperature (we used hi/lo).

Anyhow, this summer we had our pellet stove cleaned which included unplugging it for a while. This fall we fired it up and the thermostat does not seem to be communicating with the stove. I know with initial installation you have to have the receiver "learn" from the thermostat, but is that necessary to repeat if the stove is unplugged?

The thermostat had batteries in all summer, and I put fresh batteries in recently. But last winter when I changed batteries I did not need to relearn anything.

The receiver is behind the stove so i'd have to pull it out or get the stove company back to do it. They recommended unplugging stove, turn thermo to OFF, turn on stove, turn on thermostat. This didn't work.

Thanks for any help.

 

[tjnamtiw]

Did you put fresh batteries in the receiver?

 

[Cheeks]

no... I didn't even think of that. good point...

 

[tjnamtiw]

4 AA's

 

[richkorn]

Receiver batteries usually the problem - change them before each season. You can tell when the stat batteries are dying because the LCD screen starts going dim. When I change batteries in the stat the programs are not affected but need to reset the date/time.

 

[Bill L]

The receiver will have an annoying intermittent beep when the batteries are dying. It lasts for at least several days. I put up with it for a few days this summer before I got sick of hearing it and pulled the surround off to remove the batteries. I am pretty sure you need to relearn the tstat when you Change the receiver batteries, I haven't tried to use mine yet this year

 

[Cheeks]

I'm not hearing any beeps, so the batteries might be fine. I probably just need to push the "learn" button on the receiver.

Either way, I need to pull this insert out and get to the receiver. The instructions don't really tell me how - does anyone know? I have the tracks but i need to get the surround off first.

 

[tjnamtiw]

The receiver will have an annoying intermittent beep when the batteries are dying. It lasts for at least several days. I put up with it for a few days this summer before I got sick of hearing it and pulled the surround off to remove the batteries. I am pretty sure you need to relearn the tstat when you Change the receiver batteries, I haven't tried to use mine yet this year

Never had to relearn it in 4 years. Maybe just lucky. I take my batteries out in the spring so there's no chance of corrosion and put new ones in that fall. THEN I hunt for the instructions to set the swing grrrrrrrr.
I had my receiver behind the surround but the range on the thermostat really went down so I keep it sitting outside of the surround.

 

[roadking88]

so there are no wires running to this thing?? i have a p43, where would i put the receiver??? can you be more than 20 feet away with the remote?? if more than 20 ft what happens then?? and last question can i run this in room temp mode on the stove?? thanks for your help..

 

[Cheeks]

My installer put the receiver behind my pellet insert, in the fireplace box. It's in a spot where it doesnt get too hot. So, I ended up getting them to come back, pull the stove out and replace batteries and relearn it. I'm not sure if the cause of the problem was dead batteries, needing to relearn it, or both.

The receiver could have been mounted on the outside of the pellet stove as well, but then you have to look at it.

What is room temp mode?

 

[roadking88]

room temp mode is a feature offered by harman that works just a boiler thermostat.. when it cools down in the house and calls for heat the stove starts, when it reaches your set temp the stove shuts down, just like a oil fired boiler...

 

[Cheeks]

Yes, my thermostat can be used that way. There is a switch on my stove: manual, off/on, and hi/lo. If I put that on off/on the thermostat will assess the room temperature and turn the stove on when heat is needed. I seldom use this since I've heard that it's not great for the stove to go on and off a lot. When I do use it, i raise the swing temperature so it goes on and off less often. For example, I might set it on 70 with a 3 degree swing, so it turns on at 67 and off at 73.

The way I use it 99% of the time is to set the stove on hi/lo and with a swing temperature of 1 or 2. When the room needs heat it fires up to whatever I have it set on (betweeen 1 and 5) and when the temperature is met it "idles" on setting 1 automatically.

 

[roadking88]

what i'm looking for mostly is to set it down when we all leave in the morning to 64 or so then bump it up before we get home so the home is warm when we arrive...also at night set it down when were sleeping...i have a lot of glass in the front of the house with sun beating in all day that also warms up the house..it looks like an easy install from reading the paperwork..

 

[Cheeks]

oh, yes mine is programmable. Up to four periods each day, 7 days.