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Honeywell TH8320U1008 7day 3/h 2/c Vision PRO 8000 Touchscreen Programmable Thermostat by Honeywell
Product DetailsManufacturer: Honeywell Model: TH8320U1008 PRO8000 Product features: - Type: Digital Touchscreen Programmable
- Style: 3 Heat, 2 Cool
- Maximum Temperature (°F): 90
- Minimum Temperature (°F): 40
Tools and Hardware Reviews of Honeywell TH8320U1008 7day 3/h 2/c Vision PRO 8000 Touchscreen Programmable ThermostatCustomer Review: Excellent upgrade, should have bought this a year ago Summary: 5 Stars
I have a habit of replacing thermostats in houses with high tech, programmable ones that try but never really make it "easier" to use. IE, the wife says, "how do I make it warmer in here?" and I reply "push the red button." What seems obvious to one person, it's necessarily so to another.
So we've had a junky old thermostat in this latest home of ours and we absolutely hated it. It was easy to set (move the little lever on top left or right) but doing so made a HUGE difference (+/-5 degrees) and it was impossible to ever get it set "just right." Even when set close to where we wanted, the temperature swung about 5 degrees before activation/deactivation so it was always either too warm or too cold.
I finally fixed it with this thermostat. This is easily the best thermostat I've ever owned. Installing it was much less problematic than others I have bought. I'm not a contractor but neither do I fear yanking the panel off my heat pump/furnace to see how it's wired, and wire up the thermostat accordingly. The manual walks you right through setting up the "one time" setup options and then voila, it works!
Programming is a cinch. My wife has made programming changes to it a few times so that makes two of us that think the interface is very user-friendly. We leave the backlight on low all the time, so it is easy to find and alter in the middle of the night, which we do very infrequently now that we've got it set "just right."
One gotcha: by default, temperature settings and times are "targets" and this thermostat will attempt to be at the target temperature at the set time. So if you have it set to warm up the house to 68° at 7AM, the furnace will kick on before then to make sure the house is warmed up to 68 at 7.
Bah! I'm still happily under the comforter at 6:30 and if the heat kicks on, I start roasting and wake up. Not good! But that is easy to change.
I also bought the outdoor temp sensor, which I'll get around to hooking up soon...
UPDATE: I did get that temp sensor hooked up last summer, and it works GREAT! We refer to it far more often than walking over to the window to look at the outdoor thermometer. The thermostat has continued to work flawlessly. So well, we nearly forget that the thermostat exists.
Description of Honeywell TH8320U1008 7day 3/h 2/c Vision PRO 8000 Touchscreen Programmable ThermostatThermostats Type: Digital Touchscreen Programmable Style: 3 Heat, 2 Cool Maximum Temperature (°F): 90 Minimum Temperature (°F): 40
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