I’m having fun training my new thermostat!<\/p>\n
According to the manual, how it works is that you set a time at which you want to have reached a certain temperature and the thermostat will estimate how long it will take to reach that temperature. For example, if you want to get up at 8AM to a rig that is at 60F, then the thermostat might start as early as 6AM.<\/p>\n
For some reason, it takes me weeks to get used to the sound of the furnace cycling on and off at night and until then it wakes me up every time. So while we’re having these fairly mild nights where the electric heaters are enough to keep the temperature at 55F or higher keeping the furnace from cycling on unless absolutely necessary is a priority.<\/p>\n
This morning, I had the thermostat set to reach 70F by 8AM. At about 5:45, it kicked on. At about 6:00, I was boiling hot and badly needing to get a few more hours of sleep (I’ve been swamped with work and burning the midnight oil). So I got up to lower the temperature threshold and saw that it was about 63 in the rig. I reset the threshold for 60 and went back to bed.<\/p>\n
When I got up around 9:00, it was 60F in the rig and perfectly cozy for about a half hour and then my body temperature dropped. So I reset the daytime threshold for 65 and that ended up being too much. I finally settled on 63.<\/p>\n
What’s interesting in all of this is that I need the temperature a lot lower than I thought I did and that I don’t have to work in increments of 5 or 10 degrees anymore. I think this new thermostat will make my furnace run more efficiently and it will be interesting to see if I notice a difference in my propane consumption.<\/p>\n
Right now, the propane consumption has been negligible. I hadn’t had time to go to town to refill and was being super conservative with my bottles, thinking I was on dregs, but I had a full 10lbs left between the two of them when I finally got to town yesterday and I’ve been running on these so long I can barely remember the time before that that they were filled.<\/p>\n