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- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 11:07:53 EST
- From: <F0O@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92328.110753F0O@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
- Subject: Re: How to cut back my heat bill?
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- I wanted to thank everyone for all the responses. This has certainly
- shown that the gas guy didn't know what he was talking about.
- On another note, I have an anticipator in my thermostat. I had heard
- from someone else that the correct range for it was .7, which is what mine
- was set at when I moved in. But the gas guy checked the current going
- through the furnace, and said the anticipator should be set to .4. After
- he left, the furnace was coming on more often then when it was set at .7.
- It would stay on for less periods of time, but come on more often. I
- didn't think the additional start-ups were good, so I set it back to .7.
- My question is, what does the anticipator actually do, and is there
- an optimum setting? And if there is, does this setting save you on your
- heat bill, compared to non-optimum settings?
-
- [Tim]
-