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Posted by prestocat on November 29, 2007, 7:13 pm
Hello. I have 2 seperate furnaces, a wood burner and fuel oil, that are
controlled with 2 seperate thermostats. I was wondering if there are any
companies that sell a thermostat that can control both furnaces? I want to
be able to set the wood burner at 70 degrees, and the set the fuel oil at 67
degrees. That way if the wood burner runs out of wood or goes out, the fuel
oil will kick on and keep the house from getting too cold. If there aren't
any companies that sell this type of thermostat, does anyone know if and how
you can modify a regular digital thermostat? If anyone can please help, I
would greatly appreciate it! TIA!!!!!
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Posted by Bennett Price on November 29, 2007, 7:51 pm
Why not set the 2 stat's where you want them? Wood at 70, oil at 67.
prestocat wrote:
> Hello. I have 2 seperate furnaces, a wood burner and fuel oil, that are
> controlled with 2 seperate thermostats. I was wondering if there are any
> companies that sell a thermostat that can control both furnaces? I want to
> be able to set the wood burner at 70 degrees, and the set the fuel oil at 67
> degrees. That way if the wood burner runs out of wood or goes out, the fuel
> oil will kick on and keep the house from getting too cold. If there aren't
> any companies that sell this type of thermostat, does anyone know if and how
> you can modify a regular digital thermostat? If anyone can please help, I
> would greatly appreciate it! TIA!!!!!
>
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Posted by Doug Miller on November 29, 2007, 8:37 pm
>Hello. I have 2 seperate furnaces, a wood burner and fuel oil, that are
>controlled with 2 seperate thermostats. I was wondering if there are any
>companies that sell a thermostat that can control both furnaces? I want to
>be able to set the wood burner at 70 degrees, and the set the fuel oil at 67
>degrees.
So set them like that. What's the problem?
>That way if the wood burner runs out of wood or goes out, the fuel
>oil will kick on and keep the house from getting too cold.
So set the thermostat for the fuel oil furnace at 67, and the thermostat for
the wood burner at 70. As long as the wood burner is keeping the temperature
at 70 (or, in fact, anywhere above 67), the oil furnace will never come on.
>If there aren't
>any companies that sell this type of thermostat, does anyone know if and how
>you can modify a regular digital thermostat? If anyone can please help, I
>would greatly appreciate it! TIA!!!!!
Why do you want to make this more complicated and expensive than it needs to
be? What do you expect to gain from having a single thermostat, that you don't
already have with two?
--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.
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Posted by Edwin Pawlowski on November 29, 2007, 9:34 pm
>
> What do you expect to gain from having a single thermostat, that you
> don't
> already have with two?
The ability to have no heat at all if the single thermostat craps out on a
cold January night.
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Posted by Mark Lloyd on November 30, 2007, 9:37 am
>Hello. I have 2 seperate furnaces, a wood burner and fuel oil, that are
>controlled with 2 seperate thermostats. I was wondering if there are any
>companies that sell a thermostat that can control both furnaces? I want to
>be able to set the wood burner at 70 degrees, and the set the fuel oil at 67
>degrees. That way if the wood burner runs out of wood or goes out, the fuel
>oil will kick on and keep the house from getting too cold. If there aren't
>any companies that sell this type of thermostat, does anyone know if and how
>you can modify a regular digital thermostat? If anyone can please help, I
>would greatly appreciate it! TIA!!!!!
Would that be anything like a heap-pump thermostat, that can turn on
auxiliary hear it the temperature drops too much?
--
25 days until the winter solstice celebration
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com
"Never underestimate the power of stupid
people in large groups"
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