Re: Re: Choosing an Advanced Thermostat for Home

[ian.bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

A while ago I bought an X10 thermostat and planned all sorts of
wonderful
things I would do with it. Anyway, our thermostat is in the downstairs
hall and on the North side of the house. Suffice to say it is always cold
there so we now operate the heating almost entirely manually. The
thermostat as in your picture below was replaced with a small mains relay
just to make and break the connection. This relay is in turn controlled by
the X10 thermostat but it could just as easily be HomeVision or similar.
The heating is on 24/7 but the relay is king when it comes to being active
or not.

Except for some scheduled morning heating we now turn it on and off using
a remote control and timer thanks to HomeVision. Even works when in bed so
has wifeys approval. Not exactly the control level I envisaged but for the
way we live it works very well.

Other than the nice LCD display I could have done without the thermostat
altogether and just controlled the relay from HV. HV in turn can read the
Dallas temp sensors etc. etc.

Ian





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Please excuse my ignorance of heating things!! These look very cool
and a perfect step into improving heating in my house, especially with
the webby side of things :)

I have a bog standard temperature thermostat similar to this one
http://www.discountedheating.co.uk/shop/acatalog/jgstat.gif

Nothing clever, i can have it either constant or timed at the boiler
side then the temperature limit on this thermostat.

If I understand correctly I should be able to replace with any
controller such as those shown in the article above,then I'd leave the
boiler on constantly and the controller just tells it to turn on and
off based on its own thermostat/timers etc etc

Is this correct?!

if thats right, what wires will be connecting the existing thermostat
to the boiler and will they be enough for the new ones?

Thanks
Noel


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Simon McCaughey" <simonmcc@...>
wrote:
>
> Since we automated the heating in our home the thermostat is basically
> redundant.
>
> I use detailed timed programs, for example 10 mins on, 10 minutes
off, to
> control the overall temperature. Using various patterns the heating
control
> of the house is very easy, and surprisingly very stable.
>
> The other problem with our thermostats is that they are in the hall
and
> landing, and have no bearing on the heat in the important rooms.
>
> Sometimes I think we over-complicate things, our heating requires
some human
> input - ie does it feel cold in the house - yes then heat on for 30
> minutes/hour, no then 15 minutes per hour - simple!



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