Cold house

[Bob]

Why does the temperature in my house drop to 68 degrees when the "Heat" setpoint on my programmable thermostat is set to 80 degrees?

[trader_4]

Doors and windows open? Forgot to pay the gas bill for 6 months? Electricity shut off? Busted furnace? Busted thermostat?

The possibilities are endless.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Didn't we do this a month ago?

Defective thermostat weak battery defective limit switch not programmed properly doaen oter potential issues

[Bob]

Doors and windows open? NO Forgot to pay the gas bill for 6 months? NO Electricity shut off? NO Busted furnace? The furnace eventually comes on after several hours Busted thermostat? ???

[Bob]

Defective thermostat - ??? weak battery - NO (new batteries) defective limit switch - ??? not programmed properly - NO - Programmed per owners manual

[hubops]

Your thermostat is located in a warm spot and you are taking the

68 degree reading in a cold spot. John T.

[Bob]

The "Current room temperature indicator" on the thermostat is 68 degrees.

[Bob]

The "Current room temperature indicator" on the thermostat was 68 degrees at 7 AM and it was 68 degrees at 10:23 AM.

The furnace finally came on at 10:25 AM

[Mark Storkamp]

Call someone to get it serviced.

[Bob]

At 7 AM, the "Current room temperature indicator" on the thermostat was 68 degrees.

At 10 AM, the "Current room temperature indicator" was still 68 degrees.

At 10:05 AM, the furnace (finally) turned on.

At 10:30 AM, the "Current room temperature indicator" is now 82 degrees.

Why did it take more than 4 hours for the furnace to come on?

[Retired]

1. you have it set to go to 80 at 10:00
2. the t-stat's clock is set to wrong time of day
3. the t-stat is defective

[Thomas]

Small switch on back (inside) of stat is set to "A". Slide to "B".

[Bob]

Retired: The thermostat's date and time are correct and the 'Heating' setpoint is 80 degrees for all times on all days.

Thomas: Looking inside the thermostat, I don't see a switch with "A" or "B" positions. Where is that switch?

[FrozenNorth]

Mine has a set of DIP switches on the back, settings for gas/oil/electric heat, Celsius/Fahrenheit etc. Set them once on the original install and forget them.

[Mark Storkamp]

He already said the thermostat was reporting an ambient temperature of

68, so that wont be the problem. If he doesn't know how to pull the thermostat off the wall and short the correct pair of wires to see if the furnace fires, then he needs to call for service. He's in over his head.

[Bob]

My Totaline Single Stage Programmable Thermostat (5-2 Day) (Model P474-1035) does not those DIP switches.

[hubops]

Turn your "Program Switch " off.

John T.

[Bob]

John T,

I've moved the "Program Switch" to the "OFF" position.

[hubops]

" Advanced Settings " on page 17 of the Owners Manual could also affect things - deadband and cycles per hour ...

John T.

[makolber]

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