I work for a company that has generic thermostats. We can't keep the
employees from turning the air down far below what it should be.
Rather then locking them up, someone told me there's a product that
you can install that prevents the a/c from running to below a certain
temperature no matter what. He compared it to a governor on a car.
I
cannot find this product anywhere. Does anyone out there know what
this product is called and/or where I can find it?

On Nov 15, 2:16 pm, robt wrote:
I work for a company that has generic thermostats. We can't keep the
employees from turning the air down far below what it should be.
Rather then locking them up, someone told me there's a product that
you can install that prevents the a/c from running to below a certain
temperature no matter what. He compared it to a governor on a car.
I
cannot find this product anywhere. Does anyone out there know what
this product is called and/or where I can find it?

Put a thermostat lock box over the thermostat.

ransley wrote:

On Nov 15, 2:16 pm, robt wrote:
I work for a company that has generic thermostats. We can't keep
the employees from turning the air down far below what it should be.
Rather then locking them up, someone told me there's a product that
you can install that prevents the a/c from running to below a
certain temperature no matter what. He compared it to a governor
on a car. I
cannot find this product anywhere. Does anyone out there know what
this product is called and/or where I can find it?

Put a thermostat lock box over the thermostat.

i would install a new thermostat in a hidden place, but leave the old
one there so the employes could play around with it.

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On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:16:52 -0800 (PST), robt
wrote:

I work for a company that has generic thermostats. We can't keep the
employees from turning the air down far below what it should be.
Rather then locking them up, someone told me there's a product that
you can install that prevents the a/c from running to below a certain
temperature no matter what. He compared it to a governor on a car.
I
cannot find this product anywhere. Does anyone out there know what
this product is called and/or where I can find it?

You could probably set something up with another thermostat (where
those employees can't get to it) that opens the circuit below some
minimum temperature. That is, no matter what the main thermostat is
set to, you couldn't get it below what you set on the other
thermostat. This would affect cooling only, although you could do this
for heating too if you wanted.
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:16:52 -0800 (PST), robt
wrote:

I work for a company that has generic thermostats. We can't keep the
employees from turning the air down far below what it should be.
Rather then locking them up, someone told me there's a product that
you can install that prevents the a/c from running to below a certain
temperature no matter what. He compared it to a governor on a car.
I
cannot find this product anywhere. Does anyone out there know what
this product is called and/or where I can find it?

You could probably set something up with another thermostat (where
those employees can't get to it) that opens the circuit below some
minimum temperature. That is, no matter what the main thermostat is
set to, you couldn't get it below what you set on the other
thermostat. This would affect cooling only, although you could do this
for heating too if you wanted.

One effective way to do this is with temperature sensors/switches
in the return air duct.