On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 7:26:23 PM UTC-5, wrote:
I just turned on the furnace in this trailer house I'm rebuilding. The

furnace did not start. Then, using a multimeter, I found there was no

power to the burner, because there is a switch on the furnace door that

gets pushed in when the door is shut. Great, I figured that out, but

how the **** is a guy supposed to work on the furnace while using one

hand to hold that damn switch button down. Another "idiot feature".

Needless to say, that got bypassed immediately.



The furnace then attempted to ignite, but stalled. I turned up the

programmable thermostat to 65deg., which was set to 40deg. The furnace

began to work, but soon stopped. I looked at that thermostat. Once

again, it had reset itself to 40deg. WTF?????



All day I've had to keep turning that damn thing back up everytime the

furnace stops. This is ****ing me off!



I'm about ready to go buy one of those old round honeywell thermostats

with the mercury switch. They always worked just fine, and dont need no

damn programming. For one thing, I'm elderly, and almost always at

home. And since this trailer house is my project I'm working on, I turn

up the heat when I'm working on it, and shut it off when I'm done. I

dont need to program anything. Manual control is what I want.



However, before I spend the money on another thermostat, I'm going to

ask on here if anyone can tell me how to make this thermostat work in a

manual manner. In other words, simply stay on the temperature I set it

to. They say us elders have problems with technology, and I'll admit,

I'm one of them.



What I have is this. It's a Honeywell brand. It has a couple switches

on the side. one is to turn on the fan manually, which does nothing.

The other is for AC or HEAT. It's set to HEAT. (there is no AC).

Then there is the digital readout that shows the indoor temp. And shows

the temp I'm setting when I use the up and down arrow buttons.

There are 3 more buttons, one says SET (for setting the clock, I guess).

One says HOLD (WTF is that for?).

The hold button on a prog thermostat tells it to hold the
current set temp indefinitely. It will hold the current
set temp and not change temps according to the programmed
times and temps. Sounds like that' what you want.

You should google for a manual if you don't have one.



I cant remember what the other one

says since I'm in my house now.



Can anyone tell me how to set this godamn thing so it stays at the temp

I want????



Thanks



PS. There are two wires that go to the furnace. Putting a jumper across

them makes the furnace run continuously.