Digital thermostat

[belgian]

The thermostat in my Avalanche is very touchy. Either freeze your _ _ _ off or sweat your _ _ _ _ _ off. You add you own nouns. Would a digital thermostat help this problem?

Thanks and happy trails.

[Quad]

It helped mine. The swing in analog thermostats are bad! Lol Digital ones keep it around 1-2 degree swing instead of the 6-8 of old style.


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[therink]

installed a $30 programmable digital thermostat from Lowes and couldn't be happier. I have it set so that Temps are consistent every day and night for sleeping. The only downside is that I don't have low AC fan option with this tstat unless I install a separate toggle switch. No biggie because it I don't use low fan anyway. Temp swing is one degree which makes AC/furnace cycle more but temp remains consistent.

[SAD]

Originally Posted by therink

installed a $30 programmable digital thermostat from Lowes and couldn't be happier. I have it set so that Temps are consistent every day and night for sleeping. The only downside is that I don't have low AC fan option with this tstat unless I install a separate toggle switch. No biggie because it I don't use low fan anyway. Temp swing is one degree which makes AC/furnace cycle more but temp remains consistent.

I did the same... ^^

Got a $19 one from Lowes... Pics around here somewhere.

Tip - when removing old thermostat, take pics of the wiring before removing any of the wires. Nice to have something to fall back on

[RichR]

Here is the most popular thermostat conversion that I have seen: http://www.modmyrv.com/2008/07/14/rv-digital-thermostat

I don't understand why the RV industry continues to put the cheap, crappy thermostats in their units other than to save a few dollars.

[Quad]

Here is the one I bought at Home Depot. But I only paid 19.99 for mine at the time. Might have been on sale.


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[Dave in Va]

Our new Bullet came with a crappy digital t-stat. It doesn't read room temp, just setpoint. I guess I can live with it.

[KYFamily]

I'm going to change ours out also. I'll probably just go with the Coleman Digital thermostat I've seen on eBay. I might be wrong but I think I read somewhere that the wire colors match, but I may have dreamt that.

[Festus2]

Another digital that has been used with success is the Hunter -available at Wal Mart I believe for around $20.

[Essness]

This is a real easy mod and well worth while. Best instructions I found was here,

http://www.klenger.net/RVing/HVAC_Hu...tat/index.html

gives you various wiring schemes and colors based on OE t-stat.

I bought the Hunter at Wally world, twice. I thought I was smarter than the instructions and smoked the first one........

[belgian]

thanks for all the replies. Sounds like the digital is the way to go.

Happy Camping.

[Essness]

Originally Posted by Dave in Va

Our new Bullet came with a crappy digital t-stat. It doesn't read room temp, just setpoint. I guess I can live with it.

Hey Dave, just figured out this was you

[Dave in Va]

Hey, Scot. Good to see you around. No problems with the new unit while we were at the beach

[therink]

Originally Posted by Quad

Here is the one I bought at Home Depot. But I only paid 19.99 for mine at the time. Might have been on sale.


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I installed the exact same one. Works flawlessly. I have the times/temps set same as the home programmable. I need consistency when sleeping,

[Essness]

Originally Posted by Dave in Va

Hey, Scot. Good to see you around. No problems with the new unit while we were at the beach

Good deal Dave