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- From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
- Subject: Re: Calibrating old Honeywell "round" thermostats (for furnaces)
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 02:05:31 GMT
- Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers - Beltway Annex
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- Reply-To: wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher)
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-
- {what's them other things in a thermostat?}
-
- Plastics, son. Plastics.
-
- Oops - wrong advice....
-
- Hysteresis. Anticipatation.
-
- The room gets cold. The t-stat signals the furnace for heat. It starts.
- It works hard, getting its plenum (airbox) hot. When it is, a second
- t-stat, called the plenum t-stat {what a conincidence ;-!} starts the
- blower. The blower blows warm air into the room. Eventually the room
- t-stat senses it's warm enough, and shuts off the gas.
-
- But the blower keeps going, because the plenum is still warm. By the
- time it cools and the plenum t-stat shuts it off, the room is TOO
- warm.
-
- So the room t-stat has a little heater inside of it. When the gas valve
- is open, the heater makes the t-stat a little warmer, so it shuts off
- the gas a little sooner to make up for the overshoot. That's what the
- "Longer/Shorter" refers to.
-
- Two more points: The same thermal intertia also applies to other
- systems such as boilers. Only the names are changed... Ooops.
- And REAL electronic setback t-stats are often smarter. Some 'learn' how
- much overshoot happened last cycle, and act to prevent it. I like
- that.....
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