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PerniciousKnid
Sep 13, 2006
I have a two story house with a non-programmable thermostat I'm going to upgrade. Because of the floor temp differential, I open/close registers seasonally, and sometimes run the fan just to exchange air up and down if the ac/heat isn't running very frequently. I've discovered that there are some thermostats that can use remote sensors to some effect, are there any that will sense a floor temperature differential and run the fan without heat/ac just to even things out? Or is my best bet to just use a remote sensor, set the tstat to use average temp, and let the ac run more frequently?

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PerniciousKnid
Sep 13, 2006

Qwijib0 posted:

Depending on the furnace/air handler you have you might be able to just add another dumb thermostat upstairs and connect the y/r closures to the fan terminal of your indoor unit. So a cool call from upstairs will just turn on the fan, and once the downstairs gets warm that thermostat will turn on the AC as normal.

That's an interesting idea, but I don't know if I can fish a wire from the furnace to a reasonable thermostat location on the 2nd floor.

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