[rmitgoteam]

I'm trying to set a 2 degree cool differential on my new Ecobee thermostat. That means the AC is triggered to turn on when it exceeds my target temperature by 2 degrees. Nearly all thermostats are set by default to turn on at 0.5-1.0 degree differential. This causes the AC unit to turn on and off constantly, wears on the equipment, and is energy inefficient. For the life of me, I can't find where to find this setting despite searching online everywhere, even on Ecobee. It's supposed to be in Thresholds, but I can't find it. Can anyone provide help?

[vintageogauge]

I have one but have to let my grandchild do all the settings, I refuse to touch it.

[Stu from NYC]

We have one figured out how to keep it in a range we like after multiple tries and are afraid to make any further changes.

Can you go to whoever installed it.

[CarlR33]

I just tried this on mine in this order: go to your thermostat, tap top right, tap bottom right settings wheel, scroll to settings, tap installation settings, tap thresholds, tap heat/cool minimum delta, set and then your ready to go. Mine was set to 5 assume that is the default setting? BTW, the available range in the setup is 2-10 degrees.
See this if my explanation is off:
Help Centre

[DCUNY]

Originally Posted by CarlR33

I just tried this on mine in this order: go to your thermostat, tap top right, tap bottom right settings wheel, scroll to settings, tap installation settings, tap thresholds, tap heat/cool minimum delta, set and then your ready to go. Mine was set to 5 assume that is the default setting? BTW, the available range in the setup is 2-10 degrees.
See this if my explanation is off:
Help Centre

If you follow the link posted above, the most important step is to change the “Configure Staging” from auto (which is the default) to manual. Took me a long time to figure this out.

[CarlR33]

Originally Posted by DCUNY

If you follow the link posted above, the most important step is to change the “Configure Staging” from auto (which is the default) to manual. Took me a long time to figure this out.

I was not sure what that is or does so I looked it up (screen shot). Not sure if automatic would have much bearing on the thresholds (does not say so). I am going to try mine on 2 degree difference vs. 4 and see what happens.

[ToniPaul]

Personally I don’t even use the auto feature. Just turn on plain, old-fashioned AC or heat as appropriate. I couldn’t get the deadband function to work well either. I bailed and went manual…

Originally Posted by rmitgoteam

I'm trying to set a 2 degree cool differential on my new Ecobee thermostat. That means the AC is triggered to turn on when it exceeds my target temperature by 2 degrees. Nearly all thermostats are set by default to turn on at 0.5-1.0 degree differential. This causes the AC unit to turn on and off constantly, wears on the equipment, and is energy inefficient. For the life of me, I can't find where to find this setting despite searching online everywhere, even on Ecobee. It's supposed to be in Thresholds, but I can't find it. Can anyone provide help?

[rmitgoteam]

Yes!! This is how to do it. Then you'll see Cool Differential Temperature in the next menu with a sliding scale which can be set to +2.0 (or whatever) as I wanted. None of the 3 AC techs that were here even knew what I was talking about. For others to know, the heat/cool minimum delta setting is something different and is default set to 5.0 F.

[Sparky99]

Call their help line, great people there. They will walk you through it.

[JRcorvette]

Originally Posted by rmitgoteam

I'm trying to set a 2 degree cool differential on my new Ecobee thermostat. That means the AC is triggered to turn on when it exceeds my target temperature by 2 degrees. Nearly all thermostats are set by default to turn on at 0.5-1.0 degree differential. This causes the AC unit to turn on and off constantly, wears on the equipment, and is energy inefficient. For the life of me, I can't find where to find this setting despite searching online everywhere, even on Ecobee. It's supposed to be in Thresholds, but I can't find it. Can anyone provide help?

We have that thermostat and it works great. You can set it to just Heat or Cool or Auto. In the Auto mode for example we set the heat side to 70 and the cool side to 76. It seems to work very good. You don’t want those numbers to be too close together as that will not work. If you want to maintain the same temperature no matter what say 75 then you will have to just switch back and forth between Heat and Cool depending on the weather forecast. Right now the weather is a bit crazy where a cold day pops up about once or twice a week. Send me a PM if you need help.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by JRcorvette

We have that thermostat and it works great. You can set it to just Heat or Cool or Auto. In the Auto mode for example we set the heat side to 70 and the cool side to 76. It seems to work very good. You don’t want those numbers to be too close together as that will not work. If you want to maintain the same temperature no matter what say 75 then you will have to just switch back and forth between Heat and Cool depending on the weather forecast. Right now the weather is a bit crazy where a cold day pops up about once or twice a week. Send me a PM if you need help.

That is pretty much how we set it on auto. Was surprised how long it took to set up and than explain to us how to use it. Wish they would have give us some sort of cheat sheet but we are happy with it.

[pgettinger01]

I think in automatic mode you have to have a five (5) degree differential between cool and heat to prevent the HVAC unit from cycling on and off. For example:

Heat 68 and Cool 72
Heat 69 and Cool 73...

If you try to enter something less than five (5) degrees it changes the other setting automatically.

[Michael G.]

I use the manual mode, either set on heat or AC.
I turn it up/down to my comfort....easy peezy

When I turn it off completely is when I open the windows in the house.

[asianthree]

Isn’t it easier to use the app, instead of manually making changes on the thermostat?

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by asianthree

Isn’t it easier to use the app, instead of manually making changes on the thermostat?

We tried