I bought the thermostat a few weeks ago at Home Depot. It's a Ritetemp
8035C programmable. The old one was a White-Rodgers
mercury-switch-on-spring thing.
It took them two weeks to get around to replacing it. (I live in an
apartment, so maintenance is supposed to do this sort of thing.) I told
the landladies that the old one was broken. I had it at the highest
setting possible, yet it was trying to pull the temperature down to 21,
causing me exorbitant electric bills. I came home last Tuesday and found
the thermostat on the wall displaying 33, the fan running constantly. I
switched wires, but only managed to get it to heat, at least proving
that the Y terminal does something. I took a shower and went to bed with
my hair wet.
The next day I came home and started fiddling with it again. I moved the
wire from B, where it was apparently doing nothing useful, to Y and got
it to work. My apartment spent the two hottest days so far, high 38
both, with no cooling, and I lost some oranges and potatoes.
The instructions, both English and Spanish, are entirely in Fahrenheit
except where they explain how to switch it. I'm going to write to the
manufacturer.
Next is the oven. It's a General Electric, but if there's any model
number it's hidden. The knob says "164D2730", which may be a knob part
number. There's no window, so if I'm going to get a thermometer and
adjust the knob, it has to be a remote one.
phma
- [USMA:33783] Thermostat down, oven to go Pierre Abbat
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