[Bubbalarry]

Originally Posted by barefoot at last

Re price of Dehumidistat .. I'm assuming your air conditioning unit is new and it doesn't require servicing yet! Our air conditioner is four years old and we were paying for a service call anyway to have an annual a/c check. Service calls cost $96 per hour.
$130 is the discounted price to have a dehumidistat installed at the same time the guy is already being paid to be at your house doing a service call.

We were told: When leaving for an extended period, place thermostat in Cool Mode, Fan to Auto, and set the temperature to 78 degrees. Then turn the Dehumidistat to 60%.

I gotta call Munns as we got the complete opposite. Turn to auto set high for AC to 78 and low for heat to 67. Then turn unit to on which is past 60%.

BTW did the service man give you a instruction card? I have mine and read it again today. It's still telling me my setup is correct when leaving for extended periods of time. My unit is less than 6 mos old and since we had a free service call decided to install the item. So whatever the fee is my objection is we are getting 2 different answers here.

[Ice Cold]

The wall dehumidistats that wire into the thermostat is old technology. Have Sun kool put in a digital programmable thermostat with the humidity control built in. I have one in my house and they work together all the time not just in the summer. I set my temperature two degrees higher than I used to because my humidity is always at 55% Sometimes I felt clammy in the winter months, even when the temperature was low. I feel a lot more comfortable now

[Sidney Lanier]

I just finished researching and agree with your suggestion, Ice Cold! We just bought a Honeywell Vision Pro 8000 TH8321U1006 digital thermostat which has the humidity control as part of the operation, and I will install it when we get back to TV. I'm sure there'll be a learning curve with it (like you need a Ph.D. to figure it out, probably...), but my having replaced our older thermostats in our upstate NY home a few years ago with programmable digital ones, I have some idea and I'm sure we'll figure it out. Hopefully....

[mom2five]

I just had my dehumidistat installed and got the same directions as Barefoot. The card they gave me says the same thing.

The directions for when you return and are living in the house are to Turn the dehumidistat to the on position. set the thermostat to the desired temperature.

i also asked about the programable thermostat that runs all the time and he says it will not save you as much money as this system. It would be better for someone who lived in the house all the time not like us snowbirds.

[Russ_Boston]

Thanks for info ICE COLD and SL.

That looks like the way to go IMHO. I think I'll even install one on my AC system here in MA.

[Ice Cold]

check out this website and be amazed

http://www.forwardthinking.honeywell...npro_demo.html
This one of the coolest things I have seen, you can see the touchscreen thermostat and practice playing with the proramming. they made it user friendly

the old dial honeywell humidtsat is designed to over ride the thermosat, If it got set wrong it would freeze your ac coil and make a water leak in the garage or house

New technology my friends, get rid of the VHS tapes, its time to DVD's
maybe even blue ray.... whatever the heck that is ??? :dontknow: