Oh Snap moment, t-stat failure

[Prophet]

I decided today when i woke up, it was cool enough to turn on the heater for my apartment, (not the t-stat you were thinking of was it) i set it on the auto because it is a programmable t-stat that i installed 4 months ago (im an hvac tech so i know its not installed wrong) i come home and its reading 113 in my living room i run to my snake room and check the temps, 97 on the hot side(Atleast this t stat kicked in) and 95 is the ambient so i run around, take the t-stat off the wall, now im going to get a new one so this doesnt happen again.

[twistedtails]

I decided today when i woke up, it was cool enough to turn on the heater for my apartment, (not the t-stat you were thinking of was it) i set it on the auto because it is a programmable t-stat that i installed 4 months ago (im an hvac tech so i know its not installed wrong) i come home and its reading 113 in my living room i run to my snake room and check the temps, 97 on the hot side(Atleast this t stat kicked in) and 95 is the ambient so i run around, take the t-stat off the wall, now im going to get a new one so this doesnt happen again.

What kind of stat was it? Luxpro makes a decent one that comes set at a default of 80 degrees. If you forget to turn it off it will automatically go back to 80.

[Prophet]

What kind of stat was it? Luxpro makes a decent one that comes set at a default of 80 degrees. If you forget to turn it off it will automatically go back to 80.

It was a White-rogers
http://www.acsuperstore.com/store/WHITER01.html
I got it from work for free because an older lady couldnt figure it out.

[Denial]

I had a thermostat fail on me that was controlling a stack of animal plastic cages in summer 07 that killed him


I came home from work and went to water everyone and he was dead and I had two other snakes that were almost dead but they survived

[Lolo76]

Aw, that really sucks Denial - he was a pretty boy. But Prophet, I'm glad your snakes are okay! I often hear of people using back-up thermostats, so how exactly does that work? Are they plugged into each other, or what??

[Vypyrz]

Aw, that really sucks Denial - he was a pretty boy. But Prophet, I'm glad your snakes are okay! I often hear of people using back-up thermostats, so how exactly does that work? Are they plugged into each other, or what??

The t-stat that failed was his central heating/AC for the apt.

To answer you question though. To back up your t-stats...
-Plug UTH into t-stat A
-Plug T-stat A into T-stat B
-Place both probes on UTH
-Set T-stat A to 91deg, set T-stat B to like 96deg.

You can also use a dimmer to back-up your thermostat...
-Plug UTH to dimmer. Set dimmer so UTH maintains about 96deg.
-Plug dimmer into T-stat and set t-stat to 91deg.

Or, you can just buy the Double Ranco's which are already wired to back each other up...


Rob