Meat Plow wrote:
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:56:38 -0700, SteveB wrote:

"Meat Plow" wrote in message
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On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:17:54 -0700, SteveB wrote:

"Meat Plow" wrote in message
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On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:31:07 -0800, Dick wrote:

I have a Triton Big Bear air filter on my heating system. I just
installed a new programable thermostat that monitors the number of
hours on the air filter. The most information I can find is to change
the filter at the beginning of each season. My question is. Can anyone
tell me what the recommended change is in hours so that I can make use
of this feature on the Thermostat?
Every three months or 2,160 hours. 24x30x3=2160
That doesn't make any sense. Change it when it is dirty.

The poster asked for the "recommended" time to program into his
thermostat.
Tell me how you program "change it when it's dirty" into a thermostat?
Looking at a filter is easier than programming a thermostat and looking at
it hundreds of times. What if the thermostat malfunctions. Does the OP
wait three years and exclaim, "The thermostat didn't SAY it was dirty."

Just look at the stupid filter.

That's all fine and dandy and pretty common knowledge. But to give the
poster an answer to his question what do YOU recommend in hours he should
program his thermostat for?


Why do you need a program for the thermostat to tell you when the filter
needs cleaned or changed? Just take yourself to the furnace, remove it
and look at it. If it's dirty, clean or change it. In most cases, once a
month is enough to check and probably clean or change the filter.
What's so difficult about that?