On a mech. heating and or cooling thermo, inside the stat the adjustment lever for type of system being used, what does it do and what does the scale mean?
I was thinking either it made the coil more or less sensitive based on the response time needed for a given system to come to temp., or less likely I was thinking it some how adjust the low voltage signal back to the units relay. So what is it, and what do the scale numbers 1.2 through 0.8 relate to?
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http://homerepair.about.com/od/heatingcoolingrepair/ss/adj_anticipator.htm
http://www.inspect-ny.com/heat/Thermostats6.htm
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071115130544AAU8Jt9
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Thank you very much. Between the 3 sites I learned quite a bit more about aspects I didn't even know I didn't know about. In fact even the term heat anticipator I'd never heard previous to this but makes perfect sense.
I'm wondering if the term it's self is beginning to see it's day with the advent of programmable/digital stats. All the older fellows would have seen this in every stat and just know it, I'm a young-er pup my self finding out by curiosity and wonder that if the really young pups will ever see one. Of course they still sell them but there being used less and less.
One thing I didn't see from those articles and may be attributed to incorrect wiring I'm looking at is; during a cooling season the resistive wire is/should or isn't/shouldn't be still taking on a load and heating up again fooling the bi-metal but incorrectly. In either case is short cycling/long cycling just not controlled by the stat for cooling like it is for heating?
Thank you very much.
no problem....
the term heat anticipator I'd never heard previous to this but makes perfect sense.
I didn't know it as anything else...
I'm wondering if the term it's self is beginning to see it's day with the advent of programmable/digital stats.
I believe so...
All the older fellows
waddya mean older???
I'm a young-er pup
isn't that whipper snapper???
One thing I didn't see from those articles and may be attributed to incorrect wiring I'm looking at is; during a cooling season the resistive wire is/should or isn't/shouldn't be still taking on a load and heating up again fooling the bi-metal but incorrectly. In either case is short cycling/long cycling just not controlled by the stat for cooling like it is for heating?
HUH???
which thermostat are you using and how many wire...
and what is the system doing in cooling mode???
is the system corectly sized for the structure???
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