I recently bought a Honeywell RTH2300 digital thermostat and everything seemed to be running OK. It lowers the temp at night and ups it in the AM as programmed. It do have one issue with it that maybe some of you ladies or gents have had.
If I set the temperature at say 76 deg. it will in fact shut down my Quad at 76 deg. , but my issue is that it restarts if my temperature drops to say 75 deg. As a result I am cycling on and off quite a bit, sometimes my stove hasn't even cooled off before another heat cycle begins >:-( .
The only options that I see that can affect this issue are:
2cph - 30 min (steam, gravity)
3cph - 20 min (hot water, 90%+ high eff. furnace)
4cph - 15 min (gas or oil)
5cph - 12 min (gas or oil)
6cph - 10 min (electric)
As I interpret that chart 2cph - 30 minutes must mean it will only call for heat twice an hour for a max of thirty minutes?
The thermostat came factory defaulted for 5cph. I tried 3cph and it acted the same, tonight I just changed to 2cph.
At this point my old el-cheapo supplied factory analog Quadrafire thermostat acted much better, but did not have the nighttime setback feature I wanted.
Honeywell has a help line that I will try in the AM, but I was hoping somebody might have the answer especially: because the small accompanying manual does not address hooking up the thermostat to a pellet stove.
P.S. I used the Red and White terminals.
If I set the temperature at say 76 deg. it will in fact shut down my Quad at 76 deg. , but my issue is that it restarts if my temperature drops to say 75 deg. As a result I am cycling on and off quite a bit, sometimes my stove hasn't even cooled off before another heat cycle begins >:-( .
The only options that I see that can affect this issue are:
2cph - 30 min (steam, gravity)
3cph - 20 min (hot water, 90%+ high eff. furnace)
4cph - 15 min (gas or oil)
5cph - 12 min (gas or oil)
6cph - 10 min (electric)
As I interpret that chart 2cph - 30 minutes must mean it will only call for heat twice an hour for a max of thirty minutes?
The thermostat came factory defaulted for 5cph. I tried 3cph and it acted the same, tonight I just changed to 2cph.
At this point my old el-cheapo supplied factory analog Quadrafire thermostat acted much better, but did not have the nighttime setback feature I wanted.
Honeywell has a help line that I will try in the AM, but I was hoping somebody might have the answer especially: because the small accompanying manual does not address hooking up the thermostat to a pellet stove.
P.S. I used the Red and White terminals.