HI Tom, I finally got in touch with the Honeywell thermostat support group. What a waste of time. After about 20 minutes trying to get him to understand what and why I wanted the two controls he placed me on hold for another 10 minutes. He finally told me to contact a heating contractor because the two thermostats might destroy the transformer on the furnace. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Fowle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 4:05 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] more about thermostats
I can forsee problems with hooking modern electronic thermostats in parallel. Back when they were simple mechanical contactors, it'd work fine but some of these electronic ones may not use actual contacts to close the circuit but electronic switches. It's hard to be sure what strange effects might occurr when paralleling different types of solid state switches. A call to the makers of electronic ones, if such can be found, might tell you whether it would work or be safe for the device. Probably if only one of the paralleled units were electronic it'd be O.k. but if more than one were solid state, I'd be a bit cautious. Tom Fowle ------------------------------------ Send any questions regarding list management to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To listen to the show archives go to link http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 Or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: http://www.jaws-users.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Groups Links __________ NOD32 3550 (20081023) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
