Four wires on your current thermostat would indicate a 240 volt thermostat.
If you add up all the heater wattages connected to the thermostat and find
that it is less than 3840 watts, the 16 amp Honeywell is fine. If you can't
find wattages listed on the heaters, in general electric baseboard is 250
watts per foot



"Ben" wrote in message
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Hello!

We just moved into an apartment with electrical baseboard heating. We
currently have manual thermostats - I think they are Honeywell T4398B - it
says on it 120/208/240 VAC, and 20 or 22 amps (in different places). It
has 4 wires going into it. I am looking for a programmable thermostat
that
will work on our system. Honeywell tells me their T4700 thermostat won't
work, since that is rated at 16 amps. I don't know much about electrical
wiring. Does anyone know how to go about finding a programmable
thermostat
that will work?

Thanks,
- Ben