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Business Stationary Mart - Honeywell YRTH6300B1007 5-2 Day ProgrammableThermostat
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List Price: $79.99
Our Price: $39.99
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Manufacturer: Honeywell
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Binding: Tools & Hardware
Brand: Honeywell
EAN: 0085267256964
Feature: Programmable thermostat
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Label: Honeywell
Manufacturer: Honeywell
Model: YRTH6300B1007
Publisher: Honeywell
Studio: Honeywell
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Features
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Programmable thermostat
For use with central gas, oil, or electric heating and cooling or single stage heat pumps
Energy Star rated
Soft-touch keys
2 by 8.2 by 9.2 inches ; 1.3 pounds
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great value, but documentation and support are awful
Comment: This thermostat is a vast improvement over the old-school mercury-switch thermostat it's replaced. But I am severely disappointed with Honeywell's installation guide, Web support site and telephone support.
This was the cheapest electronic thermostat I could find that was back-lit.
It's also very easy to program, and the setup steps couldn't be easier: Remove the mechanism from your old thermostat, label the wires (with the included labels) based on the wiring diagrams in the documentation; remove the old thermostat from the wall; install the labeled wires according to another diagram; mount the thermostat to the wall, plug in the face place, and follow the instructions to set up your system and program it.
If only it were that easy.
My home heating system is an older, oil-fired, hot-water baseboard with no bells or whistles. We have a few heating zones set up in the house, each controlled by an electrically actuated valve. Because of that, the documentation -- which expects you to have a far more elaborate system -- wasn't correct.
Specifically, the documentation contained an incorrect drawing that caused me significant trouble. The drawing, which showed how to label the wiring in my old thermostat, suggested one of the wires on my old thermostat would not be used by the new thermostat.
I knew this couldn't be correct; there is no way any switch can work if it doesn't have a positive and negative lead connected to it. Yet I chose to trust the documentation.
I knew my trust was misplaced when, a few drawings later, I was again shown how my old thermostat's wires should be labeled -- but the wires were now labeled differently than the first drawing!
Needless to say, when I followed the instructions and connected only one wire (and connected it to the wrong terminal, I would soon learn), I couldn't get the furnace to respond to the new thermostat.
So I called the Honeywell telephone support number provided in the documentation, followed the menu prompts, and was told there was an unusually high call volume and to try their Web site or my call later.
And then Honeywell HUNG UP.
I tried a couple more times. Same result: Call volume too high, so I was told to try again later and then disconnected.
I inserted the included CD-ROM in my computer; it was as wrong as the printed instructions, and mostly served as an advertisement for the product and other Honeywell controls.
So I tried their Web support site. But the only mention there of the RTH6300B is a PDF of the exact same installation guide included in the package. The site's troubleshooter doesn't mention this model, nor do any of their FAQ / support documents.
So I tried calling telephone support again, and at least that time I was placed on hold. After about 20 minutes, I was connected with an overseas phone operator who was, at times, difficult to understand. However, he understood my problem, agreed that I needed to use both wires, and, after running through his scripts and referring to some documents, explained this:
On a two-wire oil furnace system, you need to connect one wire to the R terminal and another to the W terminal. It doesn't matter which wire goes where, but both need to be connected.
Once I had that information, everything went smoothly. The other two thermostats took all of 10 minutes to install, set up and program.
So far, the furnace is kicking in far less often and the temperature in the house is considerably more consistent.
It's too soon to say if it's going to save us money, but we need only use 40 fewer gallons of heating oil this winter -- about 5 percent of our seasonal use -- for these thermostats to have paid for themselves.
So I am very pleased with the units, but wish Honeywell would have done a better job documenting the installation, or at least made more help for this unit more readily available.
Some more notes about the RTH6300B:
-- It operates on two AA batteries. If you're handy, you could easily hack this with a soldering iron, drill and a low-amperage 3V transformer to wall-power this unit.
According to the documentation, there is an audible low-battery alarm; I've owned my units one week, so I can't say how long the batteries last. But I can take issue with another reviewer's claim that the clock loses time; my units keep time just fine.
-- You can program this unit to set a given temperature when you wake up; then change the temperature when you go to work; then change the temperature again around the time you return from work; and change the temperature once more when you go to bed.
The 5-2 program means, one group of these time settings you can run from Monday through Friday; and a second set you can run on Saturday and Sunday.
You don't have to use all these cycles; you can set just a basic temp for the morning and use it all day. All the other time changes are optional. So, if you don't want the temperature to change much on weekends, you can just set the morning temp; if you actually work Wednesday through Sunday, you just lie to the unit and set it fast a couple of days.
You can override the temperature program at any time and adjust the temperature accordingly.
-- Because the unit is battery powered, the back light only works for a few seconds after pressing a button (that is, it's not always back-lit).
-- Although I am using these units to control a simple oil-fired hot water baseboard heating system, the unit can handle oil, gas, electric, central air and most heat pumps; it can control fans, vents and more so long as those are integrated into your HVAC system. However, it will not work with your system if your current thermostat / heat control has more than five wires.
-- You will need a flat-head jeweler's screwdriver for installation (the wires fit into a terminal block); most dollar stores sell jeweler's screwdrivers. Or, if you have an eyeglasses repair screwdriver, that should work just fine, too.
-- The unit itself comes with anchored mounting screws, so lack of studs isn't an issue. However, the thermostat is wider than a standard housing stud, so keep that in mind.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Works like a Charm!
Comment: Very easy to install. Very easy to use. Works exactly like it's supposed to.
2 things: 1) make sure you have a set of small screw drivers to tighten the wires. Pick up one of the sets that can do tiny screws. I had to use a 1.2 MM screw driver if that helps. 2)Eyeball the one your taking out. Seems my old one had a bigger form so I had to paint under before I changed over. Past that you are golden.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Easy to use
Comment: I had my thermostat installed by my friends husband (he does it for a living). Once he set it up for me, I played with it works well very easy to use. If I can use this product anyone can trust me. It took me longer to walk around Home Depot and then try to pick one out then it did to program it. Home improvement stores aren't my thing.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Honeywell Thermostat, accurate and good price
Comment: I am pleased with the product, easy to set up and use. I looked at feedback and it was recommended, so far very pleased.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Works Great!
Comment: I installed the Honeywell Electronic Focus Programmable Thermostat without a problem. Total installation time took about 15/20 minutes. The unit looks really good and the backlit display is great! I also like the fact that it displays both the current temperature inside the house as well as the set temperature. I only have two complaints with this unit. As others have said, when the thermostat needs to turn my central air on, I hear two clicks coming from the thermostat. I suppose I will get used to this over time, as it's not as noisy as my LUX thermostats for the individual heat zones. My second complaint is not really a major one, but I just wish there was a way to program the unit to disable heat. This thermostat in my home will only operate the central air, so when I click the button to turn the system on, it does go to the cool setting first. But when I want to turn the unit off, I have to press the system button twice because the second time you press it, it goes to heat, then the third time goes to off. The instructions include ways to disable the AC and a couple of other scenarios, but none of them allow you to just have the thermostat function for cooling only. So if you're only going to use this unit to operate heat and nothing else, you'll be ok as you can disable the cool setting. Another feature I do like that I forgot to mention before is that when you use the "hold" setting, it will remember the last temperature you had it set for even if you turn the system off. To sum this up, if the clicking sound won't be an issue for you, I would highly recommend this thermostat. I also should mention that I have had no issues at all with the unit keeping the time, as one other reviewer mentioned.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Installing a programmable thermostat can save you hundreds of dollars in heating costs each year. These devices allow you to tell your furnace exactly when you want it to turn on and off, and they help you strike a balance between comfort and economy. This model from Honeywell is fully programmable. It features four independent time zones per day, which means you can set it to heat to a certain temperature when you wake up, shut off when you leave for work, turn on again before you come home, then lower the temperature while you sleep. Each day is programmed separately, so you can change the settings for the weekend, for example. If the word "programmable" makes you nervous, don't worry-the menu-driven software is very easy and intuitive to use. Note that you will have to hardwire the device to your power supply and to your heating unit-this isn't hard to do, but make sure you read the instructions thoroughly before you start.--Josh Dettweiler
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