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My buddy owns an HVAC company. Did a big install at my house this past spring: new AC / heat pump - new AC coil - new pipe riser thru roof - new attic 120v fan ( suck out hot air in the summer ) new Honeywell 4" thick filter and housing - new 75gal hot water heater - new inside electronic Honeywell VisionPro TH8000 series Tstat
There are many similar models - I don't think mine has wifi so I am sure is closer to $100 if you shop around. They are one of the best / most reliable Tstats on the market according to my buddy ( and its what he does for a living - owns the HVAC company )
I'll take a mercury bulb thermostat any day over a digital or programmable one.
Agree. I have the old Honeywell mercury bulb. They last forever. This is one "home improvement" I want nothing to do with. Over engineering at its worst IMO.
You can't get the mercury ones any more, but Honeywell still sells a round manual thermostat (solid state) for you purists. The traces on the board are about 1/4" wide which should satisfy your need for old tech :-) CT87 series.
Get a Z-Wave or internet accessible thermostat so that you can monitor temperature of the house remotely, alert you when something is seriously wrong (house temp falls below 50 degree, etc) when you are not at home, and operate the thermostat from outside the house or from your phone/tablet/computer from the other rooms in your house.
so that you can monitor temperature of the house remotely,
alert you when something is seriously wrong
and operate the thermostat from outside the house
How did the world survive for so long without these capabilities?
Might not be a problem for you. For me it is. I travel for work all the time and have installed Z-Wave devices to automate my house from the road. The ability to start up the furnace from the airport have been priceless. Next on my list is to get a Z-Wave enabled main water shut off valve and tie it in with Z-Wave enabled water sensors and alarm system. E.g., shut off the valve when alarm is set to "away," open the valve when the alarm is disarmed.
I'll take a mercury bulb thermostat any day over a digital or programmable one.
100% correct in my experience!!!
Never had one fail... ever.
The contact is in a seal glass vial.
A few years ago, the city had a free energy program for low income residents and replaced all of the mercury thermostats with digital... what a headache... residents don't know how to operate them, batteries fail, components fail.
You can't get the mercury ones any more, but Honeywell still sells a round manual thermostat (solid state) for you purists. The traces on the board are about 1/4" wide which should satisfy your need for old tech :-) CT87 series.
Might not be a problem for you. For me it is. I travel for work all the time and have installed Z-Wave devices to automate my house from the road. The ability to start up the furnace from the airport have been priceless. Next on my list is to get a Z-Wave enabled main water shut off valve and tie it in with Z-Wave enabled water sensors and alarm system. E.g., shut off the valve when alarm is set to "away," open the valve when the alarm is disarmed.
Family vacation home is lucky to have dial up phone service... power outages occur often in winter... no chance of DSL or Comcast...
I maintain plenty of high tech equipment in my capacity of Hospital Engineer and when it works... it's great.
At my insistence, we kept a few of the old mechanical OR beds... they do everything, albeit not at the touch of a button... they will also last centuries and require no special tools to adjust.
On the other hand... 10 to 15 years seems to be the life span of their modern counterparts... and boy do they get expensive to repair and that is if parts can be sourced....
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