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profdant139
Explorer II
May 30, 2022

Low budget furnace thermostat fix -- quick and dirty

Our old-school analog thermostat died. No furnace. Which is not a huge problem, since we only run it during the evening shower time, for about 10 minutes total. Of course, we will get a new therm...
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wa8yxm
Explorer III
May 31, 2022
Actually the 20 dollar mercury free mechanical analog T-Stat From ACE hardware (What I used) may well be better than the electronic ones for use with the Furnace... I only used it for the furnace. (Mine was the "heat only" model)

For A/C you may need an electronic stat (or not depending on the A/C but for the furnace that 20 buck job is perfect.

I did add a toggle switch in series with it so that I could HARD off the furnace.

But I liked it better than the factory T-Stat.

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