Have someone change that thermostat. Things are rated for certain loads for a reason. That old thermostat is a potential fire hazard, especially if there is a recall out for it.
So while redoing our Rec Room, we noticed that our electric baseboard heaters, on a programmable thermostat were recalled in 1996. They were there long before we were, but we swapped them out with the same size and wattage (8’ long, 2000W, 240V run in parallel to the one thermostat).
The thermostat we have installed is an Aube TH115-AF-240D - which is rated for 15A and 3600W.
They’ve been this way since 2012ish from what I can tell.
My heaters are 4000W and 16.6A combined.
How bad is this?
I see they have a TH115-AF-240S - which is rate for 16.7 and 4000W baseboards.
Are there others could better? They are programmed for all the time, but they are supplemental heat. We have a Trane furnace and Heatpump for the primary heat.
Thank you all!
Have someone change that thermostat. Things are rated for certain loads for a reason. That old thermostat is a potential fire hazard, especially if there is a recall out for it.
There are a lot of ways to control this but not on this site.
Get a contractor to install relays.
It was the baseboards that were recalled, which is what drew my attention to the wattage they were and the thermostat.
We swapped out the baseboards for the same 2000W/8.3A versions - 2 of them.
Should I just swap it out for the 240S version? Not sure what the difference is between the D and the S.
Don’t ever power a load through a device not rated for that load...period.
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