RV Thermostat Upgrade: Is It Time to Go Digital?
Dave SolbergDescription
Your RV thermostat serves to help keep you cool during the dog days of summer and nice and toasty during those cold winter months. It can be viewed as the “brains” of your RV’s heating and cooling system. And like many RV components, thermostats have improved over time. Technology has provided them with better control over your RV’s HVAC system. Is it time for you to consider an RV thermostat upgrade?? In this video, we’ll provide an overview of RV thermostats and how modern ones can save you money while keeping you in comfort.
Ask yourself – does your RV have separate thermostats for its heating and cooling units? Is yours an older recreational vehicle? Have you ever had trouble with the thermostat in your RV? If so, you may want to consider an RV thermostat upgrade even if your current one seems to be operating properly.
In this video, you’ll learn some key elements to consider when deciding on an RV thermostat upgrade. It examines situations where an RV thermostat replacement to one that is digital and programmable will ultimately pay for itself. We’ll explain why some RV thermostats are more susceptible to damage than those in your home and explore how your RV lifestyle should affect your choice of a new thermostat. We’ll also point out a key mistake to avoid when purchasing that new digital thermostat for your RV.
If you are looking to make an upgrade, an RV digital thermostat that is programmable is an affordable and relatively simple way to make a significant improvement. It will help provide more control of your comfort while saving you money and energy. Before you make the upgrade, make sure you watch this video. It’s filled with some important information for when it’s time to make a decision on an RV thermostat upgrade.
The thermostat in your RV is gonna run the furnace and sometimes even the air conditioner. This is an older unit here that has the Suburban. This is running just the furnace itself, as the air conditioner has its own controls on the unit up on the ceiling. The digital thermostats that are available today will allow you to not only program daily, but also weekends and weekdays, depending on how you're using your RV. This is a fairly basic one. This is a residential style. I picked this because it will fit in here. That's one of the things you need to look at. If you're going to upgrade your thermostat, will it fit the newer style? Digital ones are going to be a little bit longer. The newer units coming out have the digital one in most of them, but usually they're gonna have about one programmable option to it. So if you're gonna be doing a lot of sightseeing, you're gonna leave your coach at a campsite for a while and just go up on the weekends, you might want to upgrade to a little higher line style of thermostat. This also is gonna allow me to put in a little better wiring system. The boards on these are not as susceptible to cold and vibration. Sometimes these will have a little bit of problem with those. So there's a lot of options for digital thermostats out on the market. Take a look at what you've got and see if you can upgrade and be able to program your inside temperature.
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