"Travis Jordan" wrote in message
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Walter R. wrote:
We hate this Honeywell T-stat: When it comes on in the morning, the
temperature at the t-stat rises much more quickly than the room
temperature. Because the thermostat is usually 4 degrees ahead of the
room temperature it shuts the furnace off too quickly. The actual
room temp may be 70 but the t-stat reads 74. Since the t-stat was set
to shut off at 74, the furnace stops, although the room temp is only
70. It then keeps cycling on/off and high/low until it reaches 74
degrees 2 hours later.

Either warm air is blowing on the thermostat or there is warmed air
leaking into it from behind the wall.

LOL. Reminds me of a call I went on one time:

Guy decides to move thermostat because he rearranged his living room
furniture and he has to lean over the couch to adjust it. So he moves it to
the end of the couch (he did a good job of rerouting the t'stat wire in the
attic). We get called out because it's not working right. It SAYS 72 degrees
but it's freezing (60 degrees) in the house. Round Honeywell. He has a
contract that covers t'stats. Our guy tells him that it's bad, so they put a
new one on. 3 different guys. 3 different times. 3 new thermostats. It's
OBVIOUSLY way off. "Must be a bad batch from the factory".

I got sent out. I took the took the t'stat off and notice a big hole behind
the sub-base. The guy tells me "I had a helluva time fishing that wire down
to the hole!" Then I noticed something metallic in the hole....

It was the damn DUCT!!! An inch away from the thermostat! Furnace would heat
up, fan come on, and the t'stat would jump 15 degrees!

DUH!!!

and I say DUH to the guys changing the t'stat, too! (2 of them are no longer
with us).