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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Topic started by: cb on January 25, 2006, 08:12:35 PM

Title: X10 Baseboard Thermostat
Post by: cb on January 25, 2006, 08:12:35 PM

I'm looking for an X10 Thermostate to
control electric baseborad heaters (needs
to switch 3 to 4 KW). Any suggestions on
who manufactures/sells them?

Thanks,
CB

Title: Re: X10 Baseboard Thermostat
Post by: dave w on January 26, 2006, 12:14:47 PM

No such animal.
Although you could fabricate
(aka "hack", "kluge", etc) a contactor
driven by an Appliance module to
connect/disconnect power to the baseboard,
you would still need seperate thermostat.

Title: Re: X10 Baseboard Thermostat
Post by: Oldtimer on August 25, 2006, 06:03:30 PM

This is an old post but I thought I'd add some information to further the discussion. 

Some years ago, when we added a room onto onto the house we lived in at the time, I discovered that the fancy thermostats for electric baseboard heaters were much more expensive and nowhere near as sophisticated as those for furnace systems.  What I did find though, in the fine print in the catalog, was an accessory relay with its own transformer that allowed you to used the same thermostats you'd use on a furnace to control electric baseboard heaters.  This allowed us to use a mass produced, reasonably priced programmable thermostat on our electric baseboard heater.  Consider installing this relay yourself so you can use the wide range of existing X10 furnace control equipment on your electric baseboard heater.

I don't know if they mention this possibility anywhere in their documentation but this is probably why X10 doesn't make a special electric baseboard thermostat or controller.