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I am looking to get a new non smart roomstat, I was wondering if any of you have personal recommendations?
Requirements.
1) Not a smart stat (Too expensive)
2) Mains operated (Had battery ones in the past, they fail too often)
3) Clean contacts (As opposed to switched output)
4) Average size (Less than 12 x 12 cm, most are?)
5) MUST have times / programmes (Call it what you will)
The idea being it changes the max room temp at specific times every day, twice a day would be fine. (So at say, 16:00 it goes from 18 to 21 then at say 23:00 back to 18)
I want one that is easy to set up, and works.
Thanks all.
Requirements.
1) Not a smart stat (Too expensive)
2) Mains operated (Had battery ones in the past, they fail too often)
3) Clean contacts (As opposed to switched output)
4) Average size (Less than 12 x 12 cm, most are?)
5) MUST have times / programmes (Call it what you will)
The idea being it changes the max room temp at specific times every day, twice a day would be fine. (So at say, 16:00 it goes from 18 to 21 then at say 23:00 back to 18)
I want one that is easy to set up, and works.
Thanks all.
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So you want a mains powered room stat.
Do you have a neutral at the location you want to place it?
Do you have a neutral at the location you want to place it?
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Yes, I have neutral where the stat is going.
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I have used the Digistat+2, but though they list a mains version I have not come across it; in my home, whilst I am away, it is sitting with the battery stat on kitchen table set to frost which shows an OFF in the window but brings heating on at 7*C because the boiler CH is set to always ON at the LP522 and governed by this Stat.
It can be programmed for vacation but in Winter I prefer this setting.
The 2x AA batts last a long time in the Stat.
It can be programmed for vacation but in Winter I prefer this setting.
The 2x AA batts last a long time in the Stat.
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Post by Someone-Else »
Many thanks to both of you. 

Above are my opinions Below is my signature.
Would you hit a nail with a shoe because you don't have a hammer? of course not, then why work on anything electrical without a means of testing Click Here to buy a "tester" just because it works, does NOT mean it is safe.
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Sorry, I don't know.
I can't read its model, I know it's a baxi, I know it's just over 10 years old, but I can't read the name, I even tried taking a picture of it, and you can't see it, let alone read it.
I can't read its model, I know it's a baxi, I know it's just over 10 years old, but I can't read the name, I even tried taking a picture of it, and you can't see it, let alone read it.
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The Drayton linked above is a very old design, not bad but not the best either.
I have fitted dozens and dozens of these https://www.esicontrols.co.uk/product/4 ... hermostat/
They are around £50 and I have never had one fail yet. They are very like an older Honeywell to program and the load compensation feature gives you something known as TPI - basically as the house warms up it brings the boiler on less often and for shorter periods which saves temperature overshoot and wear on the boiler.
I have fitted dozens and dozens of these https://www.esicontrols.co.uk/product/4 ... hermostat/
They are around £50 and I have never had one fail yet. They are very like an older Honeywell to program and the load compensation feature gives you something known as TPI - basically as the house warms up it brings the boiler on less often and for shorter periods which saves temperature overshoot and wear on the boiler.
I think I'll take two chickens...
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BTW that's assuming it's a combi and you don't have a cylinder...
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Post by Someone-Else »
An update.
If anyone is thinking of getting an esicontrols ESRTP4+ programmable room stat you can get them for less than £50 Click me only £35
It will operate most boilers, but do bear in mind
It is battery powered, which is not what I am looking for
I ended up getting one of these Click me Its mains powered, it is also controllable by an app, which I am not using, and not interested in, and yes, it works well without the app.
If anyone is thinking of getting an esicontrols ESRTP4+ programmable room stat you can get them for less than £50 Click me only £35

It will operate most boilers, but do bear in mind
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It is battery powered, which is not what I am looking for
It is also "open therm" which reduces gas being used as and when required, its just not the stat for me.Someone-Else wrote: ↑Fri Mar 10, 2023 3:45 pm Requirements.
2) Mains operated (Had battery ones in the past, they fail too often)
I ended up getting one of these Click me Its mains powered, it is also controllable by an app, which I am not using, and not interested in, and yes, it works well without the app.
Above are my opinions Below is my signature.
Would you hit a nail with a shoe because you don't have a hammer? of course not, then why work on anything electrical without a means of testing Click Here to buy a "tester" just because it works, does NOT mean it is safe.
If gloom had a voice, it would be me.
Click Here for a video how to add/change pictures
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Would you hit a nail with a shoe because you don't have a hammer? of course not, then why work on anything electrical without a means of testing Click Here to buy a "tester" just because it works, does NOT mean it is safe.


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