Recomendations please 👨🏼‍🦲

Someone-Else · Post by **Someone-Else** » Fri Mar 10, 2023 3:45 pm

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.

Neelix · Post by **Neelix** » Fri Mar 10, 2023 4:52 pm

So you want a mains powered room stat.

Do you have a neutral at the location you want to place it?

Someone-Else · Post by **Someone-Else** » Fri Mar 10, 2023 5:24 pm

Yes, I have neutral where the stat is going.

Neelix · Post by **Neelix** » Sat Mar 11, 2023 9:03 am

One of these?

https://www.draytoncontrols.co.uk/produ ... /digistat3

aeromech3 · Post by **aeromech3** » Sat Mar 11, 2023 10:03 am

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.

Someone-Else · Post by **Someone-Else** » Sat Mar 11, 2023 11:07 am

Many thanks to both of you.

Razor · Post by **Razor** » Sat Mar 11, 2023 1:40 pm

What boiler is it going on?

Someone-Else · Post by **Someone-Else** » Sat Mar 11, 2023 2:46 pm

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.

Razor · Post by **Razor** » Sat Mar 11, 2023 6:09 pm

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.

Razor · Post by **Razor** » Sat Mar 11, 2023 6:09 pm

BTW that's assuming it's a combi and you don't have a cylinder...

Someone-Else · Post by **Someone-Else** » Mon Mar 20, 2023 3:01 pm

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

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It is battery powered, which is not what I am looking for

Someone-Else wrote: ↑Fri Mar 10, 2023 3:45 pm Requirements.
2) Mains operated (Had battery ones in the past, they fail too often)

It is also "open therm" which reduces gas being used as and when required, its just not the stat for me.

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.