As a dad who has 50% custody of his two kids -- one week on, one week
off -- I find myself wishing someone made a programmable thermostat that
could preheat the house at 5:30 am during the weekday mornings I get up
early so I can drive the kids to school; yet was polite enough to
preheat an hour later on the weeks I don't have the kids. I get to sleep
in longer those weeks. Every thermostat I've looked at so far has a
7-day program. I asked the kid at Home Depot about it and he went to ask
the manager and I've not seen him since.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR

Greetings,

There is probably a programmable thermostat out there with a two week
setting. I don't know where to find it either. Otherwise check out
http://content.honeywell.com/yourhome/tam/tamfaq.asp "You can use any
touch-tone telephone to control the Honeywell Telephone Access Module." You
could simply set up your computer to automatically place a call to your
thermostat once per week. There might also be a computer-controlled system.
Try X-10.com and other home automation sites.

Hope this helps,
William





"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et wrote in message
...
As a dad who has 50% custody of his two kids -- one week on, one week
off -- I find myself wishing someone made a programmable thermostat that
could preheat the house at 5:30 am during the weekday mornings I get up
early so I can drive the kids to school; yet was polite enough to
preheat an hour later on the weeks I don't have the kids. I get to sleep
in longer those weeks. Every thermostat I've looked at so far has a
7-day program. I asked the kid at Home Depot about it and he went to ask
the manager and I've not seen him since.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR

I wonder if you might try using two thermostats wired with a toggle switch
to choose one or the other. In week 1 you would use Thermostat 1 and in week
2 you would switch to Thermostat 2.
ds

"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et wrote in message
...
As a dad who has 50% custody of his two kids -- one week on, one week
off -- I find myself wishing someone made a programmable thermostat that
could preheat the house at 5:30 am during the weekday mornings I get up
early so I can drive the kids to school; yet was polite enough to preheat
an hour later on the weeks I don't have the kids. I get to sleep in longer
those weeks. Every thermostat I've looked at so far has a 7-day program. I
asked the kid at Home Depot about it and he went to ask the manager and
I've not seen him since.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR

"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et wrote in message
...
As a dad who has 50% custody of his two kids -- one week on, one week off -- I
find myself wishing someone made a programmable thermostat that could preheat
the house at 5:30 am during the weekday mornings I get up early so I can drive
the kids to school; yet was polite enough to preheat an hour later on the
weeks I don't have the kids. I get to sleep in longer those weeks. Every
thermostat I've looked at so far has a 7-day program. I asked the kid at Home
Depot about it and he went to ask the manager and I've not seen him since.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR

This is Turtle.

I'm suppost to know this and it is late and I can't think too good here but i
think your missing something here on the 5-1-1 , 5-2 , and the 7 day
thermostats.

the 5-1-1 type will let you pick the temperatures of the week days as a hold to
set the temp. on and off at any time. Then you can pick the 2 says of the week
end and have different temps at different time.

The 5-2 the same story but you have to have the same temps for each of the 2
weekend days as set points.

The 7 day is suppose to let you pick what temp.s you want on and off any day in
the week or week end. you can turn it off on monday or set it different and on
friday set a different temp and times off and on. You can pick out any day and
do different things totally with each day. I can't think of anything you can't
do with a true 7 day thermostat.

Now Honeywell make a fair thermostat that can do just about everything you want
and more. It's a TH832U1006 Touch Screen Universal and is at this page
http://customer.honeywell.com/Honeywell/CatalogNavigator.aspx?Definition=Product&Catalog=H omes&Category=TH8321_32425&Product=TH8321U10068&Ch annelID={2EB2F178-20ED-44EO-97FB-CCFB4218DD64}#ProductSpecification

this one will do nicely for you can set the temp any where you want it or time
and also set the Humitity or % RH of your home.

Now let me tell you a little secret here. Home Depot Don't sell the good stuff
for the manufactor will not sell to them for the public to send it back for
warranty when the burn it up or just can't figure out how to install it. Your
going to have to buy it throught a hvac service company or maybe a friend who
works at a hvac supply house. Lows and Home Depot just don't sell the good
stuff. Also a true 7 day or a 5-1-1 or a 5-2 should do what you want if it is
the good stuff and not a over stock item the manufactor has on hand and can't
sell enougfh of them.

TURTLE

On 12/10/2004 11:58 PM TURTLE wrote:

"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et wrote in message
...

As a dad who has 50% custody of his two kids -- one week on, one week off -- I
find myself wishing someone made a programmable thermostat that could preheat
the house at 5:30 am during the weekday mornings I get up early so I can drive
the kids to school; yet was polite enough to preheat an hour later on the
weeks I don't have the kids. I get to sleep in longer those weeks. Every
thermostat I've looked at so far has a 7-day program. I asked the kid at Home
Depot about it and he went to ask the manager and I've not seen him since.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR


This is Turtle.

I'm suppost to know this and it is late and I can't think too good here but i
think your missing something here on the 5-1-1 , 5-2 , and the 7 day
thermostats.


Maybe I am missing something. Here's the goal:

WEEK 1 Program: M-F heat house by 6 am. Weekend, do nothing.
WEEK 2 Program: M-F heat house by 7:30 am. Weekend, do nothing.
Then alternate Week 1 and Week 2 programs.

I could take a 5/2 or 7-day thermo and change the programming every
weekend, I reckon, but was hoping for a 5/2/5/2 or 14-day programmable.

Thanks for the tip Lowe's/HD re finding the good thermostats. I've
always figured that neither of these big box retail giants sell the best
brands or models of anything.


--
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR

On 12/11/2004 12:41 PM US(ET), Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott took
fingers to keys, and typed the following:

On 12/10/2004 11:58 PM TURTLE wrote:

"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et wrote in
message ...

As a dad who has 50% custody of his two kids -- one week on, one
week off -- I find myself wishing someone made a programmable
thermostat that could preheat the house at 5:30 am during the
weekday mornings I get up early so I can drive the kids to school;
yet was polite enough to preheat an hour later on the weeks I don't
have the kids. I get to sleep in longer those weeks. Every
thermostat I've looked at so far has a 7-day program. I asked the
kid at Home Depot about it and he went to ask the manager and I've
not seen him since.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR



This is Turtle.

I'm suppost to know this and it is late and I can't think too good
here but i think your missing something here on the 5-1-1 , 5-2 , and
the 7 day thermostats.


Maybe I am missing something. Here's the goal:

WEEK 1 Program: M-F heat house by 6 am. Weekend, do nothing.
WEEK 2 Program: M-F heat house by 7:30 am. Weekend, do nothing.
Then alternate Week 1 and Week 2 programs.

I could take a 5/2 or 7-day thermo and change the programming every
weekend, I reckon, but was hoping for a 5/2/5/2 or 14-day programmable.

Thanks for the tip Lowe's/HD re finding the good thermostats. I've
always figured that neither of these big box retail giants sell the
best brands or models of anything.

They do sell the best brands of many things, it's just that the
'associates' are not familiar with the products.
Unless there is a thermostat that can handle both weeks, perhaps with a
memory chip that can be accessed to change from one weekly schedule to
another, your best bet would be as someone else suggested, two
thermostats side by side and connected to each other in parallel. One
for one week and the other for the next week. Just turn off the one you
don't want for that particular week.

"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et wrote in message
...


Maybe I am missing something. Here's the goal:

WEEK 1 Program: M-F heat house by 6 am. Weekend, do nothing.
WEEK 2 Program: M-F heat house by 7:30 am. Weekend, do nothing.
Then alternate Week 1 and Week 2 programs.


I don't see enough differance to bother with it. Just run your week 1
program all the time.
Greg

You might be able to look at 'commercial' thermostats and find one that can
program 30 days (calendar type). If you do find one, it'll be expensive.
I've seen calendar timers [electronic] that can program events, but they're
either on or off. Not temperature setback.

--
Zyp
"willshak" wrote in message
...
On 12/11/2004 12:41 PM US(ET), Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott took
fingers to keys, and typed the following:

On 12/10/2004 11:58 PM TURTLE wrote:

"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et wrote in
message ...

As a dad who has 50% custody of his two kids -- one week on, one
week off -- I find myself wishing someone made a programmable
thermostat that could preheat the house at 5:30 am during the
weekday mornings I get up early so I can drive the kids to school;
yet was polite enough to preheat an hour later on the weeks I don't
have the kids. I get to sleep in longer those weeks. Every
thermostat I've looked at so far has a 7-day program. I asked the
kid at Home Depot about it and he went to ask the manager and I've
not seen him since.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR



This is Turtle.

I'm suppost to know this and it is late and I can't think too good
here but i think your missing something here on the 5-1-1 , 5-2 , and
the 7 day thermostats.


Maybe I am missing something. Here's the goal:

WEEK 1 Program: M-F heat house by 6 am. Weekend, do nothing.
WEEK 2 Program: M-F heat house by 7:30 am. Weekend, do nothing.
Then alternate Week 1 and Week 2 programs.

I could take a 5/2 or 7-day thermo and change the programming every
weekend, I reckon, but was hoping for a 5/2/5/2 or 14-day programmable.

Thanks for the tip Lowe's/HD re finding the good thermostats. I've
always figured that neither of these big box retail giants sell the
best brands or models of anything.

They do sell the best brands of many things, it's just that the
'associates' are not familiar with the products.
Unless there is a thermostat that can handle both weeks, perhaps with a
memory chip that can be accessed to change from one weekly schedule to
another, your best bet would be as someone else suggested, two
thermostats side by side and connected to each other in parallel. One
for one week and the other for the next week. Just turn off the one you
don't want for that particular week.

On 12/11/2004 10:10 AM Greg O wrote:

"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et wrote in message
...

Maybe I am missing something. Here's the goal:

WEEK 1 Program: M-F heat house by 6 am. Weekend, do nothing.
WEEK 2 Program: M-F heat house by 7:30 am. Weekend, do nothing.
Then alternate Week 1 and Week 2 programs.



I don't see enough differance to bother with it. Just run your week 1
program all the time.
Greg


Heat the house for an hour and a half extra in the morning? Easy for
/you/ to say! I am a light sleeper and easily woken up in the morning --
something I wish didn't happen. I envy folks who can slumber on and on
in the morning, undisturbed by helicopters and cannon fire. Unlike me -
the sound of the furnace firing up wakes me, AND a house warm enough for
wandering around in, wearing pajamas is too warm (to me) for sleeping.


--
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR

"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et wrote in message
...
On 12/11/2004 10:10 AM Greg O wrote:

"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et wrote in message
...

Maybe I am missing something. Here's the goal:

WEEK 1 Program: M-F heat house by 6 am. Weekend, do nothing.
WEEK 2 Program: M-F heat house by 7:30 am. Weekend, do nothing.
Then alternate Week 1 and Week 2 programs.



I don't see enough differance to bother with it. Just run your week 1
program all the time.
Greg


Heat the house for an hour and a half extra in the morning? Easy for
/you/ to say! I am a light sleeper and easily woken up in the morning --
something I wish didn't happen. I envy folks who can slumber on and on
in the morning, undisturbed by helicopters and cannon fire. Unlike me -
the sound of the furnace firing up wakes me, AND a house warm enough for
wandering around in, wearing pajamas is too warm (to me) for sleeping.


--
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR


Ok! I did not see a problem as our family's schedule changes daily, but the
stat stays the same in regards to the program. Your best bet maybe to wire
in two thermostats, and enable/disable them with a switch.
Greg

Greg O wrote:
"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et wrote in message
...

On 12/11/2004 10:10 AM Greg O wrote:


"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
j.michael.elliottAT@REMOVETHEOBVIOUSadelphiaDO T.net wrote in message
...


Maybe I am missing something. Here's the goal:

WEEK 1 Program: M-F heat house by 6 am. Weekend, do nothing.
WEEK 2 Program: M-F heat house by 7:30 am. Weekend, do nothing.
Then alternate Week 1 and Week 2 programs.



I don't see enough differance to bother with it. Just run your week 1
program all the time.
Greg


Heat the house for an hour and a half extra in the morning? Easy for
/you/ to say! I am a light sleeper and easily woken up in the morning --
something I wish didn't happen. I envy folks who can slumber on and on
in the morning, undisturbed by helicopters and cannon fire. Unlike me -
the sound of the furnace firing up wakes me, AND a house warm enough for
wandering around in, wearing pajamas is too warm (to me) for sleeping.


--
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR



Ok! I did not see a problem as our family's schedule changes daily, but the
stat stays the same in regards to the program. Your best bet maybe to wire
in two thermostats, and enable/disable them with a switch.
Greg


You could also switch your thermostat into and out of daylight savings
time every week. The DST button shifts the whole schedule by an hour.
Of course, then it will show the wrong time half of the time, and you
will have to reset the clock rather than use the DST button when the DST
shift really comes. This still isn't automatic, but might get you
closer to what you want. Not a very good solution, but I think you'll
have a hard time finding a 2 week thermostat.

On 12/11/2004 2:51 PM Gary wrote:

Greg O wrote:

"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et wrote in message
...

On 12/11/2004 10:10 AM Greg O wrote:


"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et wrote in message
...


Maybe I am missing something. Here's the goal:

WEEK 1 Program: M-F heat house by 6 am. Weekend, do nothing.
WEEK 2 Program: M-F heat house by 7:30 am. Weekend, do nothing.
Then alternate Week 1 and Week 2 programs.



I don't see enough differance to bother with it. Just run your week 1
program all the time.
Greg


Heat the house for an hour and a half extra in the morning? Easy for
/you/ to say! I am a light sleeper and easily woken up in the morning --
something I wish didn't happen. I envy folks who can slumber on and on
in the morning, undisturbed by helicopters and cannon fire. Unlike me -
the sound of the furnace firing up wakes me, AND a house warm enough for
wandering around in, wearing pajamas is too warm (to me) for sleeping.


--
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR




Ok! I did not see a problem as our family's schedule changes daily,
but the
stat stays the same in regards to the program. Your best bet maybe to
wire
in two thermostats, and enable/disable them with a switch.
Greg


You could also switch your thermostat into and out of daylight savings
time every week. The DST button shifts the whole schedule by an hour.
Of course, then it will show the wrong time half of the time, and you
will have to reset the clock rather than use the DST button when the DST
shift really comes. This still isn't automatic, but might get you
closer to what you want. Not a very good solution, but I think you'll
have a hard time finding a 2 week thermostat.

I like the way you think. With my vision and your evil genius, we could
take over the world!

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR
------------------------------------
Today's Deep Thought:

Can I trade this job for what's behind door #2?
------------------------------------

In alt.home.repair on Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:41:52 -0800 "Mike Rocket J.
Squirrel Elliott"
et posted:

As a dad who has 50% custody of his two kids -- one week on, one week
off -- I find myself wishing someone made a programmable thermostat that
could preheat the house at 5:30 am during the weekday mornings I get up
early so I can drive the kids to school; yet was polite enough to
preheat an hour later on the weeks I don't have the kids. I get to sleep
in longer those weeks. Every thermostat I've looked at so far has a
7-day program. I asked the kid at Home Depot about it and he went to ask
the manager and I've not seen him since.

Buy a second thermostat and a double throw multi?-pole switch so you
can switch from one to the other easily.

Don't disconnect the positive or ground when you do the switching, so
that the clock will stay accurate (and it won't run down the back-up
battery, iiuc).

Maybe you only have to switch one or two wires, the one(s) that
actually tell the furnace and AC when to turn on and off.



I have a different but related question. Twenty years ago, when I
first looked for a setback thermostat, I think I found one with a NEXT
button. But now I can't find one. Does anyone know a make and model
like what I want:

That would solve everything for me. I'd set it for one good temp for
when I was sleeping or away, and one good temp for when I was home and
awake. If I came home earlier than normal, I'd push NEXT and it would
go to the "next" temperature in the cycle. It would go early, and it
would stay there until the end time of the next stage. (The end of
the current stage (when I got home) would have no effect because when
I pressed NEXT, I moved it to the Next stage. If I went to bed early
or got up early, I'd do the same thing. It wouldn't affect the timing
for the rest of the day, I wouldn't have to adjust temperatures one
degree at a time, and I wouldn't have to remember what to do when.



Meirman

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In alt.home.repair on Sat, 11 Dec 2004 13:59:30 -0800 "Mike Rocket J.
Squirrel Elliott"
et posted:

On 12/11/2004 10:10 AM Greg O wrote:

"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et wrote in message
...

Maybe I am missing something. Here's the goal:

WEEK 1 Program: M-F heat house by 6 am. Weekend, do nothing.
WEEK 2 Program: M-F heat house by 7:30 am. Weekend, do nothing.
Then alternate Week 1 and Week 2 programs.



I don't see enough differance to bother with it. Just run your week 1
program all the time.
Greg


Heat the house for an hour and a half extra in the morning? Easy for
/you/ to say! I am a light sleeper and easily woken up in the morning --

I agree with you. You wouldn't have asked the question in the first
place if you were satisfied with one set of times.

something I wish didn't happen. I envy folks who can slumber on and on
in the morning, undisturbed by helicopters and cannon fire. Unlike me -
the sound of the furnace firing up wakes me, AND a house warm enough for
wandering around in, wearing pajamas is too warm (to me) for sleeping.

But I still want to comment on this. One of the reasons we are the
mercy of OPEC and other oil producing countries is that most of us
these days are willing to heat the house to where it is comfortable
just wearing pajamas. Why in the movies from the 50's and before, and
maybe after, do the characters put their robe on as soon as they get
up. It's not just modesty, especially when they are the only one who
is living there. It's because it was normal to wear a robe to keep
warm.

It was normal, in the winter, for people, when they weren't wearing
pajamas and robes, to wear sweaters in their homes over their shirts.

That way the thermostat could easily be kept at 68, and even lower.

And it's not just the oil crisis and the way this dominates our
foreigh policy (in the USA). It's that so many people, not
necessarily you or anyone here, talk about how hard it is to make ends
meet these days when many of them are spending much more money on
things people lived without 50, 40, 30, and even 20 years ago.

There are more broadcast TV stations than ever but I met someone a
couple weeks ago who hasn't been able to pay all her bills but is
still paying 75 dollars a month for cable. That's 900 dollars a year.
And my friend tells me most people pay a lot more. Etc. Blah, blah,
blah.




--


Meirman

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In alt.home.repair on Sat, 11 Dec 2004 15:41:14 -0800 "Mike Rocket J.
Squirrel Elliott"
et posted:

On 12/11/2004 2:51 PM Gary wrote:




Ok! I did not see a problem as our family's schedule changes daily,
but the
stat stays the same in regards to the program. Your best bet maybe to
wire
in two thermostats, and enable/disable them with a switch.
Greg


You could also switch your thermostat into and out of daylight savings
time every week. The DST button shifts the whole schedule by an hour.
Of course, then it will show the wrong time half of the time, and you
will have to reset the clock rather than use the DST button when the DST
shift really comes. This still isn't automatic, but might get you
closer to what you want. Not a very good solution, but I think you'll
have a hard time finding a 2 week thermostat.

I like the way you think. With my vision and your evil genius, we could
take over the world!

You guys could get the whole world on dodecatuple daylight savings
time, and then they'd all be sleeping in the day time. We could just
walk into stores and take anything we need.

Meirman

If emailing, please let me know whether
or not you are posting the same letter.
Change domain to erols.com, if necessary.

"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et wrote in message
...
On 12/11/2004 2:51 PM Gary wrote:

Greg O wrote:

"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et wrote in message
...

On 12/11/2004 10:10 AM Greg O wrote:


"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et wrote in message
...


Maybe I am missing something. Here's the goal:

WEEK 1 Program: M-F heat house by 6 am. Weekend, do nothing.
WEEK 2 Program: M-F heat house by 7:30 am. Weekend, do nothing.
Then alternate Week 1 and Week 2 programs.



I don't see enough differance to bother with it. Just run your week 1
program all the time.
Greg


Heat the house for an hour and a half extra in the morning? Easy for
/you/ to say! I am a light sleeper and easily woken up in the morning --
something I wish didn't happen. I envy folks who can slumber on and on
in the morning, undisturbed by helicopters and cannon fire. Unlike me -
the sound of the furnace firing up wakes me, AND a house warm enough for
wandering around in, wearing pajamas is too warm (to me) for sleeping.


--
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR




Ok! I did not see a problem as our family's schedule changes daily, but the
stat stays the same in regards to the program. Your best bet maybe to wire
in two thermostats, and enable/disable them with a switch.
Greg


You could also switch your thermostat into and out of daylight savings time
every week. The DST button shifts the whole schedule by an hour. Of course,
then it will show the wrong time half of the time, and you will have to reset
the clock rather than use the DST button when the DST shift really comes.
This still isn't automatic, but might get you closer to what you want. Not a
very good solution, but I think you'll have a hard time finding a 2 week
thermostat.

I like the way you think. With my vision and your evil genius, we could take
over the world!

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR
------------------------------------
Today's Deep Thought:

Can I trade this job for what's behind door #2?
------------------------------------

This is Turtle.

After listening to Gary , Zepher, Grego, and others here about the two
thermostat set up. I used a Robert Shaw electronic 365 day clock timer that will
turn one thing off and turn on another one on. then vise versa. You can program
it for the whole year and even made changes during holiday time and then go back
to setting of the switching system. You could use this clock to switch between
the 2 programiable thermostats like the 5/2 or 7 day type and set each
thermostat for that weeks activity. Now your looking at about $300.00+ for the
clock and two thermostats. I think the clocks run about $150+ .

There is something wrong here for I'm thinking of the feed back through the
other dead thermostat when it tring to close connection for it to run with the
24 volt voltage also. The 24 volts will try to back up through the off themostat
unless he could turn it off when the other one was the master.

TURTLE

"meirman" wrote in message


It was normal, in the winter, for people, when they weren't wearing
pajamas and robes, to wear sweaters in their homes over their shirts.


Pajamas? Use to have some when I lived with my parents. Have not had a par
for the past 38 years.

I do keep the t-stat at 68 though and lower at night.

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 09:41:06 -0800, "Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et wrote:

snip

"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et wrote in message
...

As a dad who has 50% custody of his two kids -- one week on, one week off -- I
find myself wishing someone made a programmable thermostat that could preheat
the house at 5:30 am during the weekday mornings I get up early so I can drive
the kids to school; yet was polite enough to preheat an hour later on the
weeks I don't have the kids. I get to sleep in longer those weeks. Every
thermostat I've looked at so far has a 7-day program. I asked the kid at Home
Depot about it and he went to ask the manager and I've not seen him since.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR

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snip

Take a look at the home automation stuff, like X10 variants and the
like. I think the timing controllers are more flexible than the
typical 'stat, and I'll bet they make a control module that replaces
the 'stat. Might be too expensive for you, but worth a look.

One source is: http://www.smarthome.com/

HTH,

Paul

"TURTLE" wrote in message
...

There is something wrong here for I'm thinking of the feed back through
the
other dead thermostat when it tring to close connection for it to run with
the
24 volt voltage also. The 24 volts will try to back up through the off
themostat
unless he could turn it off when the other one was the master.

TURTLE



With using two stats, depending on the stat you may get by switching the red
only. If that fails a mutiple pole double pole switch would not be hard to
find. Typical home stat you would only need to switch the Y, G, and W wires.
Heat pump is probably out of the question!
Two stats would probably be the simple cheap way to go, depending on his
system.
If money is no object, well then that is another story! Endless options in
controls, at least untill the money runs out!
Greg

"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"

Heat the house for an hour and a half extra in the morning? Easy
for /you/ to say! I am a light sleeper and easily woken up in the
morning -- something I wish didn't happen. I envy folks who can
slumber on and on in the morning, undisturbed by helicopters and
cannon fire. Unlike me - the sound of the furnace firing up wakes
me, AND a house warm enough for wandering around in, wearing
pajamas is too warm (to me) for sleeping.

This refers to "2 week programmes", though I'm not sure what it means.
Might be worth a look, anyway:
http://www.aquatherm.co.nz/content/docs/Underfloor_Heating.pdf

--
Ray Heindl
(remove the Xs to reply to: )

If you do end up going the two thermostat route, try buying a model that has
a removable body. Program the two bodies differently and plug in the one for
the week you want.

For example, I have a Honeywell Chronotherm. I can detach the body "for ease
of programming" as it says in the manual.

"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et wrote in message
...
As a dad who has 50% custody of his two kids -- one week on, one week
off -- I find myself wishing someone made a programmable thermostat that
could preheat the house at 5:30 am during the weekday mornings I get up
early so I can drive the kids to school; yet was polite enough to preheat
an hour later on the weeks I don't have the kids. I get to sleep in longer
those weeks. Every thermostat I've looked at so far has a 7-day program. I
asked the kid at Home Depot about it and he went to ask the manager and
I've not seen him since.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR