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Posted by Robert11 on January 25, 2007, 9:13 am
Hello:
Will be looking to buy a new heat-only thermostat for the house.
See these RiteTemp brands at Home Depot and elsewhere.
One of their styles seems to fit our needs a bit better than any of
Honeywells.
Do these RiteTemp have a good rep., or should I forget them and go, as
usual, with Honeywell ?
Any other brands that have a good reputation ?
The Honeywell these days seems to be made in Hungary, believe it or not.
All th others, China, of course.
Thanks,
Bob
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Posted by on January 25, 2007, 9:58 am
> Hello:
>
> Will be looking to buy a new heat-only thermostat for the house.
>
> See these RiteTemp brands at Home Depot and elsewhere.
>
> One of their styles seems to fit our needs a bit better than any of
> Honeywells.
>
> Do these RiteTemp have a good rep., or should I forget them and go, as
> usual, with Honeywell ?
>
> Any other brands that have a good reputation ?
>
> The Honeywell these days seems to be made in Hungary, believe it or not.
> All th others, China, of course.
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
Don;t know about the RiteTemp, but here's 2 features I really like:
Adaptive Recovery - You just set the time in the morning that you want
it to be back to temp X and the thermostat figures out how much earlier
to actually fire up the furnace based on recent experience.
Vacation Hold - You can set a temp for X days and have it resume normal
sched after that. Which means if you;re going to be away for 4 days,
you can have the house back to temp when you arrive.
The Honeywell VisionPro models have those features, which is why I went
with it.
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Posted by oklaman on January 25, 2007, 10:26 am
I have been using a Lux for about 5 years and I haven't had any problems
with it. I believe it was about $50 and I think I got it at HD.
Hello:
Will be looking to buy a new heat-only thermostat for the house.
See these RiteTemp brands at Home Depot and elsewhere.
One of their styles seems to fit our needs a bit better than any of
Honeywells.
Do these RiteTemp have a good rep., or should I forget them and go, as
usual, with Honeywell ?
Any other brands that have a good reputation ?
The Honeywell these days seems to be made in Hungary, believe it or not.
All th others, China, of course.
Thanks,
Bob
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Posted by Humble Tom on January 25, 2007, 2:46 pm
wrote:
>Hello:
>
>Will be looking to buy a new heat-only thermostat for the house.
>
>See these RiteTemp brands at Home Depot and elsewhere.
>
>One of their styles seems to fit our needs a bit better than any of
>Honeywells.
>
>Do these RiteTemp have a good rep., or should I forget them and go, as
>usual, with Honeywell ?
>
>Any other brands that have a good reputation ?
>
>The Honeywell these days seems to be made in Hungary, believe it or not.
>All th others, China, of course.
>
>Thanks,
>Bob
>
imho,
I have a honewell, 2stage heating programmible thermastat. It cost
bucks, I love it. Recently I upgraded a simple bimetalic 240v
baseboard to a ritetemp(one with a battery control). It cost very
little bucks, but the job it does is great, it functions as designed,
and for a cheap upgrade, it worked.
So if one low level product is any indication of the whole product
line, I think I will be leaning towards ritetemps in the future.
Just my observations.
tom @ www.FreeCreditCheckGuide.com
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Posted by Art Todesco on January 25, 2007, 3:46 pm
Humble Tom wrote:
> wrote:
>
>> Hello:
>>
>> Will be looking to buy a new heat-only thermostat for the house.
>>
>> See these RiteTemp brands at Home Depot and elsewhere.
>>
>> One of their styles seems to fit our needs a bit better than any of
>> Honeywells.
>>
>> Do these RiteTemp have a good rep., or should I forget them and go, as
>> usual, with Honeywell ?
>>
>> Any other brands that have a good reputation ?
>>
>> The Honeywell these days seems to be made in Hungary, believe it or not.
>> All th others, China, of course.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bob
>>
>
> imho,
>
> I have a honewell, 2stage heating programmible thermastat. It cost
> bucks, I love it. Recently I upgraded a simple bimetalic 240v
> baseboard to a ritetemp(one with a battery control). It cost very
> little bucks, but the job it does is great, it functions as designed,
> and for a cheap upgrade, it worked.
>
> So if one low level product is any indication of the whole product
> line, I think I will be leaning towards ritetemps in the future.
>
> Just my observations.
>
> tom @ www.FreeCreditCheckGuide.com
>
The one thing I like about the Honeywell
units is they use a, for lack of
a better term, software anticipator. It
tends to re-adjust from cold outside
temps to warmer outside temps. The old
heater anticipator was a kludge
at best, however, for its time, worked
ok. The Honeywell's system works
very well. I don't know if other brands
do this. I have had some experience
with early digital units that suffered
real bad from cycle-itis. I had one and
dumped it quickly.
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