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by RPBrown
Mon Jun 29, 2020 2:54 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Thermostat with adjustable cycle rate
Replies: 29
Views: 10436

Re: Thermostat with adjustable cycle rate

A few years ago I gave my wife a 20x15 sunroom for her craft room. I ran 2-9" ducts int the room because of all of the glass. I replaced our system with a 2 speed with variable speed blower and up sized and additional ton to compensate for the sun room.
Now, keep in mind that I have been in the a/c business for 47 years. She has been with me almost the entire time and has heard me complain about people not changing filters, closing vents, and other things that they think helps.
Anyway, I come home and sit down to eat and the system comes on and it ramps up to gale force air before backing down slightly. I get concerned because it usually only does this when the filter is dirty. I knew i had just replaced the filter the week prior but went and checked it anyway. Clean. I blow it off, until it does it again. I start checking the static and its high. I immediately go to the attic just knowing she had put something up there and crushed a duct. But no, everything okay up there. I went and sat back down and decided to wait until the weekend to check it out. The wife comes home from whatever excursion she was on and it happened again. Then, all of a sudden it stopped. She comes out of her craft room and says "it got hot out there while I was gone so I opened the vents back up" :grumble . I asked her how much and why she closed them. She said it got cold out there so she closed bot vents almost all of the way off. After I :banghead: and I gave her the :rules: , she said she wondered why it started sounding like a jet when it started up :headscratch
by RPBrown
Mon Jun 29, 2020 7:44 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Thermostat with adjustable cycle rate
Replies: 29
Views: 10436

Re: Thermostat with adjustable cycle rate

03Lightningrocks wrote: Sun Jun 28, 2020 11:41 pm
strogg wrote: Sun Jun 28, 2020 10:50 pm As the title suggests, I'm looking for a thermostat with an adjustable cycle rate. The HVAC I have right now is definitely way too large for my place and is short cycling like crazy. Does anyone have any suggestion on reliable thermostats that'll fit the bill? I would prefer thermostats that can work as designed without wifi. I'm not a fan of the whole IOT movement.
If your system is short cycling due to being over sized, changing the thermostat is not going to help. How did you end up with an over sized system? Most homes are designed with the correct HVAC system size to begin with.
:iagree: Unless you have a 2 speed or variable speed condensing unit, you could be looking at some long term issues as well.

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