wrote:

wrote:

If I want to set a thermostat for 40, I'd like some settings below
that, since errors tend to be much worse near the edges of a
thermostats range, and less near the middle.

Well you seem to be pretty much set in your ways, even after you were
given some very good advice. What the heck, use a 32 degree stat if
you can find one...

He might enjoy a $10 Thermocube:

http://www.countrysupply.com/products/sku-BEW19.html

Nick