What's your preferred swing setting ?

It's that's time of year where I'm looking for the best combo of heating from the basement up and efficiency . Right now a hold on 73 with # 8 / 2 degrees swing , stove on low. How do you change your settings as the temperatures drop ?

 

All I know is I set the thermostat at 68*, some little time after it hits 67* (maybe it gets to 66.5 or 66.75?), it signals the stove to fire. Some little after it hits 69* (maybe 69.25 or 69.5?) it signals the stove to shut down.

I have the thermostat in an entirely different room than the stove is in (about 1/2 way down the house), so the temp changes are gradual. If I had the thermostat in the living room with the stove, it would be shutting the stove down after about 2 minutes. Plus, the livingroom is naturally the warmest room in the house, so it wouldn't turn on often enough to keep the bedrooms and office warm.

 

From what I've read in the past, if possible, the stat for the stove should be approx 15 ft. away, but not in direct line with the front of the stove so warm convection breezes don't affect it quickly. My stove was in the LR, but the stat was around a wall, about 15-16' away. I had the swing set to 2 degrees, and that set-up seemed to keep the place pretty cozy and the stove wasn't cycling a lot.

 

My stoves use the built-in temperature probe; no external / third-party thermostat. The oil furnace is controlled by Honeywell thermostats. None of these have a configurable swing setting. In fact, if it wasn't for this forum, I would know that such a thing existed, lol. Curious what kind of thermostats are you guys using that allow you to configure swing?

 

Shop Lux Touch Screen Programmable Thermostat at Lowes.com

 

I got a lux,works great

 

In my case the Quadra Fire CB 1200 goes through a cycle of drop pellets , ingnite pellets , then blower for vents go on to push the hot air . So the swing setting allows the stove to run longer before the whole process starts up again. In a house running different heating systems one can be tricked to start or stop early or later than another system.

 

I have a Lux Geo wiFi unit....here's the swing menu:

 

sorry for your confusion i have the redneck version

 

I had one of those to run the pellet stove too:

 

what a clown

 

I don't have a room that big and the hall is in line with the air flow of the stove. Thus, being in a room half way down the length of the house.