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Which Thermostat is Best?

Opinion Seeker

2005-10-23, 10:21 am

Hello,
In the living room i am going to install two, electric,
three-foot, baseboard heaters, while in the other rooms one
three-foot heater. The heaters are said to have better
circulation if you install them directly under a window. For
creature comfort i will be using other forms of heat.

The reason these baseboard heaters will be installed is to
keep the walls from buckling from having 0 heat in the
house, so a little bit is better than nothing, and i expect will
do the job while i am away, basking in the Florida sun during
the three, bitterest, Winter months.

The question is: if i use the thermostat that goes directly on
the unit, i feel it will keep the units from getting too hot (if i set it
correctly), while if i have the thermostat on the wall, it will read the
room air too good and send the little heaters
into a dangerous tizzy of hot hot hot.

It is beyond me how the thermostat installed directly on the
unit works at all, but i guess they have it all figured out
somehow. Sort of wish someone would explain this theory and
how it works.

Or what is the intelligent way of thinking along these lines?

These baseboard heaters are so well built, the parts have a
life-time guarantee so i am putting my house in their hands,
and hoping they donot burn it down in my months’ long
absences. Scary, yes, but what else is there to do?

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SQLit

2005-10-23, 12:21 pm

"Opinion Seeker" <7957418@127.0.0.1:7501> wrote in message
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>
> Hello,
> In the living room i am going to install two, electric,
> three-foot, baseboard heaters, while in the other rooms one
> three-foot heater. The heaters are said to have better
> circulation if you install them directly under a window. For
> creature comfort i will be using other forms of heat.
>
> The reason these baseboard heaters will be installed is to
> keep the walls from buckling from having 0 heat in the
> house, so a little bit is better than nothing, and i expect will
> do the job while i am away, basking in the Florida sun during
> the three, bitterest, Winter months.
>
> The question is: if i use the thermostat that goes directly on
> the unit, i feel it will keep the units from getting too hot (if i set it
> correctly), while if i have the thermostat on the wall, it will read the
> room air too good and send the little heaters
> into a dangerous tizzy of hot hot hot.
>
> It is beyond me how the thermostat installed directly on the
> unit works at all, but i guess they have it all figured out
> somehow. Sort of wish someone would explain this theory and
> how it works.

Thermostats that are installed on the units as part of the assembly (same
manufacture) are designed and calibrated for use at that level. You seem
only to be worried about freezing so I doubt your going to set these much
above 40 degress, F.

> Or what is the intelligent way of thinking along these lines?
>
> These baseboard heaters are so well built, the parts have a
> life-time guarantee so i am putting my house in their hands,
> and hoping they donot burn it down in my months' long
> absences. Scary, yes, but what else is there to do?
>
>
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Dave Nay

2005-10-23, 1:21 pm

Opinion Seeker wrote:
> The question is: if i use the thermostat that goes directly on
> the unit, i feel it will keep the units from getting too hot (if i set it
> correctly), while if i have the thermostat on the wall, it will read the
> room air too good and send the little heaters
> into a dangerous tizzy of hot hot hot.

I have used the thermostat that is mounted on the baseboard before, and
they are really no problem. What you _will_ need to do is spend a
couple days getting them set properly. Put a thermometer somewhere else
in the room, and then using SMALL adjustments on the knob, you can get
them to hold the room temperature quite nicely. It takes several hours
for the temp to stabilize between adjustments, but it it pretty easy to do.

P.S. when you make an adjustment, you DO NOT need to hear the unit kick
on or off, just move the knob and have faith.

Dave

nicksanspam@ece.villanova.edu

2005-10-23, 3:21 pm

Opinion Seeker <7957418@127.0.0.1:7501> wrote:

>In the living room i am going to install two, electric,
>three-foot, baseboard heaters, while in the other rooms one
>three-foot heater. The heaters are said to have better
>circulation if you install them directly under a window...
>
>...what is the intelligent way of thinking along these lines?

Put them away from your windows so the air near your windows is cooler
and the temp diff between indoors and outdoors is less and you can
keep your house from freezing with less heat power.

Nick

barry@sme-online.com

2005-10-24, 5:21 pm

If these heaters are wired with plugs, vice hard-wired, there is a
safety problem with long-term use (with various units I'm familiar
with.) Some draw sufficient current to heat the plug contacts, with
subsequent oxidation, increased heating, etc., etc.

I've seen it happen that fire marshall would not allow plug-in heaters
in office buildings because of this.

Especially since you intend to use these heaters during extended
absence, I'd be concerned, and check current draw of each (12a on 15a
circuit would be max.), and make sure plugs (replace them) and outlets
were high quality. Pennies more per each.

HTH,
J

John Gregory

2005-10-26, 10:21 am

I take it there is no central heating in the house that you can simply set
at low temperature? Each of those heaters ads risk of malfunction (and
fire). What brand and type are they?

<barry@sme-online.com> wrote in message
news:1130181973.045300.206650@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> If these heaters are wired with plugs, vice hard-wired, there is a
> safety problem with long-term use (with various units I'm familiar
> with.) Some draw sufficient current to heat the plug contacts, with
> subsequent oxidation, increased heating, etc., etc.
>
> I've seen it happen that fire marshall would not allow plug-in heaters
> in office buildings because of this.
>
> Especially since you intend to use these heaters during extended
> absence, I'd be concerned, and check current draw of each (12a on 15a
> circuit would be max.), and make sure plugs (replace them) and outlets
> were high quality. Pennies more per each.
>
> HTH,
> J
>

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