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Old 02-06-2007, 10:17 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Re: Tips for saving money on your electric bill

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Originally Posted by cleozmom View Post
We have baseboard heat, not my choice, however much better than in the apartment we rented which had ceiling heat.

PDXnative- I was told you can't have programmable thermostats for the baseboard heaters, seems like that was incorrect. What brand are your heaters? I would much prefer to have the programmable thermostats!
yuck! ceiling cable heat is terrible, and terribly expensive to use.

Honeywell now makes programmable thermostats for baseboard heat. You can't use the regular programmable thermostats because they are low voltage (running at 24 volts) where the baseboard heat is "line" voltage, running at 240 volts.

So, you can now order programmable "line voltage" thermostats, regardless of what type of baseboard heat you have.
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