Learn how to set your thermostat and get tips on the "auto" setting, so it automatically turns on and off at a certain temperature to keep your room temperature regulated. Learn more thermostat tips in this free household electronics video.
Expert: Tony Ramirez
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My thermostat won't let me have it set for: COOL at 68. The lowest setting is COOL at 74.
Now it will let me set it for HEAT at 68 or even HEAT at 50.
What does that mean?
How can you have heat at 50?
Is it going to actually cool the house? Or is it going to heat the house?
ModeratorOWD 8 months ago
@brislo
I figured out the problem actually. The laundry room is not heated or cooled unless the door is open. The wall directly behind the laundry room is where the thermostat is. When you open the garage door and heat comes into the laundry room , it makes the wall heat up, thus the wrong thermostat reading. I have since been leaving the laundry room door opened and it corrected itself. It's now pretty close to my other indoor thermometer
mark40511 1 year ago
@mark40511 You need to replace the thermostat as it is defective. I had the same thermostat and it did the same thing.
brislo 1 year ago
I have this EXACT thermostat in my house. Lately, I've noticed that the "current temp" the thermostat displays is like 5 degrees warmer than what the current temp actually is. I have 2 thermometers that says it's 74.3 inside (feels cool in here) yet the A/C is still running and says the current temp is 79 on the thermostat and the A/C keeps running and running.
mark40511 1 year ago
hello, we CANT get the airconditioner to kick on. I set the inside temp on 15 c . I have the SNOWFLAKE setting on too.The outside temp in about 24. The fan seems to be on full time but the inside temp slowly climbs to match the outside temp. I have it set on auto as well. Can you help me to get this unit to kick into Airconditioner mode? Thanks D.ferguson Okanagan canada.
gladheateher4now 2 years ago
Jenko701 is correct. Fan set to on will not make your house warmer or colder on it's own. It will just keep the air circulating all the time. It will use more energy but much less than when the compressor unit is running on the heat pump in relative terms.
sschoeppey 3 years ago
Fan on just means the fan will will run all the time. AC / Heat will still go on and off as needed.
jenko701 3 years ago