Our 2007
Airstream Interstate was born with a separate thermostat for the furnace that was almost impossible to read and very difficult to set properly, especially at 2 a.m. (by separate, I mean it was a different system than the roof air conditioner).
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| Even in this straight-on photograph, you can't see the little red thermometer properly. You can barely make out a red line near the degrees F scale. |
The challenge was the the furnace temperature was set by that slider on the bottom of the device. Move right for more heat, but only in the relative sense. There was no way to specify a temperature so adjusting it came down to a lot of trial and error.
Enter the solution. After some research and knowing my intolerance for over-engineered devices, my husband chose a product called "
Honeywell TH1100DV1000 Pro-Digital 2-Wire Heat Only". Here is the very simple installation sequence.
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| Remove the old thermostat from the wall. There are just these two wires. |
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| Take the front face off the new Honeywell, connect the wires, and then screw this part to the wall. The device operates as a circuit-completer, so it couldn't be simpler. |
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| Put the front face back on. |
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| There are just two functions because that's all there needs to be - Off/Heat switch on the right hand side, and temperature up and down buttons. And a backlight comes on when you change the temperature so that you can see the reading in the dark without having to resort to a flashlight. |
It runs on batteries so it does not create a parasitic power draw.
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| Hopefully my 32 degree F camping nights of saying this to myself are now over. With the old thermostat I did a lot of fumbling around and was alternately too hot or too cold. |
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