"Dave Gallant" wrote in message
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Greetings:

I have a Hunter Digital Thermostat [Set and Save 110], and the relay
makes a "click" noise every time the unit calls for heat. Their help
department tells me that this is a normal function of this unit.

Problem #1..Hunter and Lux, Cheapest of the Cheap. Garbage. Total complete,
utter crap.

Yes, its normal for those to sound like a door being slammed shut.


Is this a standard operation of all digital thermostats?

Pretty much. Honeywell makes a few high end units that you cant just run out
and buy that are fairly silent, but all use relays now of some sort...at
least one on the board, and what you call distracting, most will not notice.


If not, I
will be making a change. I have an office setup within 15 feet of the
unit, and the sound can distracting. Suggestions on a good replacement
would be appreciated - heat only, for hot water baseboards.

You might look at a Honeywell T8195 B 1009. It has setback provisions, a
clock for allowing to setback the unit, and a fixed anticipator. It is also
a mercury switch unit and is totally silent.
It is very hard to locate outside of CA, but we use them all the time here
in NC. Perhaps, one of the best mercury units other than the old T87F
Honeywell, also known as The Round One.


Thanks,

Dave