Honeywell TH8110U1003 Vision Pro 8000 Digital Thermostat
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Honeywell TH8110U1003 Vision Pro 8000 Digital Thermostat
Customer Review: Appropriate for Men - Excellent Thermostat
Summary: 5 Stars
Of course, we all know that real men don't need heat, and even if you do, you ought to be fine with a lever, a spring, and a vial of mercury. So I felt a little silly ordering this. But once I got over that, I realized that this is a truly great thermostat. Here's why:
1: It's confusing - anything except a temporary override requires several screens and sequences of commands. It's enough to deter even the most determined women, who are undoubtedly trying to make the place into some kind of "heat nest".
2: It's lockable! That's right, you can lock everyone out from modifying the thermostat! And even if you don't want to go that far, you can set limits on what the temperature can be set to. Awesome!
3: And this is the best one of all.... You can program it to show a different temperature than the actual temperature!!! For obvious reasons, this is the best feature ever built into any thermostat since the dawn of time. It takes some digging to get through the manuals to figure out how to do it, but it's worth it. Here's how a conversation about an actual temperature of 68 degrees might go:
Woman: "Honey, it's awfully cold in here, can we turn up the heat?"
Man: "It's already 85 degrees in here."
Woman: "It can't be... (gets up and checks thermostat)... Hmmph, I guess you're right."
Man: "Maybe you should take some more thyroid medicine. And while you're up, make me a sandwich."
Ask yourself - does it really get any better than that?
As much as I love this thermostat, it could be improved by having some sort of fingerprint scanner, or retina ID device on it, allowing only certain people access to the thermostat. But since no competing models yet offer this feature, this is about as good as it gets for keeping YOUR castle at YOUR temperature.
Customer Review: Easy To Use, Superb Accuracy, The Best Thermostat I've Ever Had!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is simply the best thermostat for anyone wanting great accuracy, easy to use screen and programming, and other extras for efficiency and savings.
I've had two thermostats in the past 3 years, because I have a two story well insulated home with cathedral ceiling down, ceiling fans, and other things that can make some thermostats not be very accurate as to temperature, and of course "cycling" and "programming." In a state where it gets very warm in the summer and very cold in the winter, it's been a constant problem and irritation having unreliable and inaccurate thermostats. Not any longer with this Honeywell model!
I tested it with very sensitive electronic digital sensors, and it reads to within .5 degrees, which means it comes on to cool and cools down abit below where it is set, and it comes back on in plenty of time (but not too early) so it efficiently cools again. The same thing goes with heating. I don't need to constantly manually adjust the temp up or down because the thermostat is not reading correct temperatures and doing its job! It has yet to fail to turn on and off at the proper times to maintain the temperatures I want. Isn't that the true test of a very good thermostat?
The light up green touch screen is very easy to read, and it has handy little reminders for filter change, humidifier pad change, etc. Also there is a very nice "circulating fan" setting which, if selected, (versus using On or Auto settings) will have the fan run about 30-35% of the time, keeping the air circulating, and making for an even more accurate and efficient heat or cool cycle. Well worth the cost. I only wish I had it last winter. This is really a quality, accurate instrument with a good warranty. My family is very impressed and pleased with it!!
Customer Review: Vision Pro Digital Thermostat is Awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
After looking at every thermostat made, I purchased this one from Plumbing World at a very reasonable price compared to what's available from the chain stores. It arrived within a few days just as pictured on the site.
I literally opened the package, took three minutes to read the instructions which don't make much sense as far as wiring goes unless you're an electrician. But the diagrams for dummies were fairly clear. It took 45 seconds to remove my old worthless thermostat, 2 minutes to install the new back plate, 1 1/2 minutes to put the proper color wire in the proper slots and 1/2 minute to put the thermostat in place. Done, simple, worked immediately.
3 minutes spent reading the instructions on how to program the thermostat prepared me to spend the next 5 minutes easily programming the unit. A few of the higher functions make no sense if you don't install heaters and A/C professionally and are best left at the factory presets and work great.
It couldn't have been easier or simpler and it works great!!!! It's a dream. I don't know if it'll save money (it should) but it sure is nice to have it warm when you want it so and saving money when you aren't home. I'm going to buy another to replace the thermostat downstairs too.
Granted, installation may not be so easy if your home isn't relatively new, if your heating system is not mainstream or other permutations. In this case you may need someone with a little bit of electrical expertise. But I have no electrical knowledge except a little common sense and this was a breeze.
Customer Review: Excellent!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this thermostat! I had a programmable thermostat before that came with our furnace. It was nice, but the one feature that was missing was the ability to program the fan to go on and off at certain times for purposes of circulating the air. My old thermostat only had "auto" and "on" switches for the fan. I wanted the ability to turn the fan on to circulate air even when the furnace or air conditioner were not running. For example, in the morning I want the fan to come on just before I wake up. This will start to circulate the air in the house to equalize the temperature. The moisture from my shower will also circulate throughout the house, which has relatively dry air from the furnace in the winter. So when the rest of the family wakes up and goes downstairs, there's not much of a temperature or humidity shock. Before, I would have to run downstairs to automatically turn the fan on. "Auto" was not enough because it would only be on for 5 or 10 minutes while the furnace was running. I wanted it on all the time between 6am and 8am.
I found that most programmable thermostats (even high end ones) don't have this ability to program your fan. But eventually I found this model and it has the ability to program the fan! It also has a circulate feature that will run the fan to circulate the air about 20 minutes per hour. This is a bonus!
This is very use and easy to install. I just matched the wires from the wiring on my old thermostat and it worked instantly!
Great product!
Customer Review: Fan circulation feature is a must have
Summary: 5 Stars
We have been using our thermostat for a couple of months and we are already starting to see a savings. Just took it a day or so for the adaptive recovery feature to fine-tune itself to come on at the right time in the morning.
If you have a 2 story or multi-level home with a single source system for heating and cooling you already know how stuffy and warm it can get in your upstairs rooms, especially during cooling season. The fan on this unit has a "Circulate" feature that will insure that the air gets moved around each hour even if it doesn't need to run the A/C. And it doesn't just run the fan all the time either which always seemed wasteful and overkill to me. This mode can be individually programmed per time period to so you aren't doing it unnecesarily during your away times.
The touch screen menu is very intuitive, if I were to suggest any future improvements it would be to make the same day overriding when you are home a little more intuitive, as it is you have to readjust the temperature from it's setback point and then possibly adjust the pop-up override time to get it to hold until your next period, it would be nice if it had a feature like the Hunters do that says "Home Today" and make it a one button push. But that is a minor gripe, this thing works great and I highly recommend it!