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Originally Posted by MarkB
Where in the world did you get that idea? Sorry dude, but you're makin' it up and giving very bad advice. The physics of this question is very simple - turn down more, save more fuel. There's no magic 'wicking' to take account of. This is a very simple formula:
1. The more degrees you keep your house above outside temps...
2. for the longer time
the more energy you use.
If you either set your thermostat lower, or keep it lower longer, you will save fuel.
And running the furnace to raise the temperature more than five degrees doesn't hurt the furnace. A furnace is not like a car engine - it's not like you're pulling a load up hill. The furnace always runs at the same rate. To raise the temperature of your house more, it just runs longer. If anything will hurt your furnace, it's cycling on and off, not running for a long time. That's true of any machinery - it's always the cycling that does the damage not the standard running.
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First off I stated nothing more than 4 degrees, if you go grater than that it will take longer to "recover" which would mean what ever you set your temp at your system will run longer than It would have while you were gone(based on 10 hrs.)So this law will apply to any temp.As I stated we all have a different thresholds for comfort,yours just happens to be a balmy 50.
Secondly I didn't say boo about putting stress on the unit,cycling is and can be regulated by stetting dead bands in t stats or you can increase the differential in the heating stages(if your furnace supports more than one stage)or you can also select the amount of cycles per hour on initial start up on a digital t stat or if you have an older merc t stat change the anticipater for amount of degrees so the cycling won't be to close.
Don't go throwing my name out there as giving bad advice Mark,it's not cool, I don't like it.Sso think twice before you go typing away thinking the other guy behind the screen is some young puke just shooting there mouth off.
You copy.
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