Honeywell TH8110U1003 Vision Pro 8000 Digital Thermostat
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Honeywell TH8110U1003 Vision Pro 8000 Digital Thermostat
Customer Review: Great Product
Summary: 5 Stars
If you want a thermostat that is pretty easy to program this one is what you need. I'm a heating and air conditioning technician by trade and this thing is a good design. I have had to program a lot of thermostats in my trade of work and this is the best I've seen . Its easy to read also. Has a large screen that has a lot of light so you can read it well. You have to touch the screen to make it light up. Nice and bright. The temperature is real accurate also . It holds the temperature at 1 degree of your set point. The instructions are pretty easy to follow also. Its also pretty easy to install also. With a digital thermostat you don't have to fool with setting your heat anticipator on it. Just hook up your 4 wires and your done. It also has a 5 year warranty. When you buy a cheap $30.00 thermostat that the home supply stores sell,they dont last long. Honeywell in my opinion is the best on the market. Very good quality. My last Honeywell thermostat lasted 18 years. It will pay for itself by the energy you can save by programming your thermostat. Energy bills are not going to get cheaper in the future.Customer Review: Vision Pro
Summary: 5 Stars
I use these in commercial buildings as they have a very flexible programming and auto switch from heating to cooling. I have 6 in service now. I like that I can set a schedule and forget it. Also can lock the schedule and either allow just the temp setting to be adjusted till the next period or not allow any adjustments by the tenants or employees. (If someone turns on the heat in the conference room and forgets to turn it off, it will go back to the scheduled temp automatically when the next scheduled period starts instead of staying on all night or weekend.)
If adjustments are allowed you can limit how low the AC can be set and how high the heat can be set. We don't allow the AC to be set below 76 or the heat to be set above 72.
Once the initial setup is done, the programming of the schedule is easy and intuitive. You can do multiple days at once or one day at a time. The schedule can be different every day if necessary. Would be just as good for residential applications. Great stat.
Customer Review: Over-rated
Summary: 3 Stars
Seems to work OK, but clearly doesn't deserve a raving review. Things I did not like:
- Need manual to set up because codes are used rather than plain English. For example code 0170 is "System Type," code 0180 is "Fan Control," 0280 is "Backlight," 0330 is "Daylight Savings," etc. There are more than 30 of these settings, some of which need to be changed periodically (e.g. furnace filter change reminder) so if you lose the manual you might as well get a new thermostat.
- Need to remove thermostat from wall to replace batteries - not so easy to do without risk of damage.
- Noisy switching
- The touch screen is not very responsive
- Honeywell advertises customer support; the manual even directs you to their web site if you have questions. But in reality they provide very little help.
Bottom line: It works as a thermostat. It has good points, but also bad points -
bad enough that I wish I'd bought a different thermostat.
Customer Review: The easiest programmable thermostat to program
Summary: 5 Stars
I've owned 3 programmable thermostats, and this one is by far the easiest to setup. When I got an upgraded HVAC system a couple years ago the contractor installed this thermostat as part of the upgrade. He told me I'd love it, and I do. Everything is programmed via the touch-screen, and there are no buttons or slide switches to wear out over time. Very intuitive.
My ONLY complaint, and it's a small one, is I'm used to thermostats having an adjustment or setting which defines how low the temperature must go below the set temperature before the heat comes on, and how far above the set temperature before it shuts off. Of course, reverse that for air conditioning. This minimizes on-off cycling. This unit has no such setting. It appears to try to maintain the temperature to within half a degree. Nice, but I'd like to minimize the wear and tear on my system by setting that threshold to 1 or even 2 degrees.
I WOULD buy this thermostat again though, even given the above.
Customer Review: Works great, easy to install and program
Summary: 5 Stars
I replaced a perfectly good 7 day programmable one with this model, because this one has a lighted screen, and vacation mode.
1) The lighted screen only works if you run a wire for continuous power from the furnace. Maybe you already have a spare conductor but I had to run a separate wire since all mine were in use.
2) The vacation mode is great, and easy to program. No more going away for a week and coming back to a cold house, or having to ask the neighbor to turn up the heat (we live in Minnesota). Now I just enter the number of days to be gone and what temp I want to hold at. After those days it reverts to normal program. This feature alone is worth upgrading if you do any traveling and live in a cold climate.
3) The text on the screen is a little small, but I can read it w/o my glasses.
Installation and programming are very simple.