All,
The house we just moved into has a natural gas furnace and a Hardy Outside Wood Boiler (OWB, not currently connected). The thermostat in the house is a non programmable Honeywell Heat Pump T8411R. It has settings for A/C, Heat and Emergency Heat.
I believe the previous owners used the Emergency Heat setting when they were heating with the OWB. If I understand it correctly there would be no backup if the wood fire went out or otherwise could not keep up with demand.
I would like to install a programmable thermostat that has a setback mode so if the OWB goes cold for some reason or can't keep up, the LP gas would kick in and heat the house.
I researched a bunch of threads but it's a bit confusing if this is possible.
The two thermostats that seem to be recommend are Robertshaw 9820i2 or a Honeywell TH8320R1003.
Any advice would be appreciated, I maybe missing something regarding the function of the wood furnace since it's completely new to me.
I would rather not run two thermostats, which seems to be a common suggestion. We're in middle TN so I'm not expecting bitter cold. I'm not even sure I want to hook up the Hardy wood furnace, it's about ten years old, but look like it's in decent shape.
Thanks,
Lou
The house we just moved into has a natural gas furnace and a Hardy Outside Wood Boiler (OWB, not currently connected). The thermostat in the house is a non programmable Honeywell Heat Pump T8411R. It has settings for A/C, Heat and Emergency Heat.
I believe the previous owners used the Emergency Heat setting when they were heating with the OWB. If I understand it correctly there would be no backup if the wood fire went out or otherwise could not keep up with demand.
I would like to install a programmable thermostat that has a setback mode so if the OWB goes cold for some reason or can't keep up, the LP gas would kick in and heat the house.
I researched a bunch of threads but it's a bit confusing if this is possible.
The two thermostats that seem to be recommend are Robertshaw 9820i2 or a Honeywell TH8320R1003.
Any advice would be appreciated, I maybe missing something regarding the function of the wood furnace since it's completely new to me.
I would rather not run two thermostats, which seems to be a common suggestion. We're in middle TN so I'm not expecting bitter cold. I'm not even sure I want to hook up the Hardy wood furnace, it's about ten years old, but look like it's in decent shape.
Thanks,
Lou