thermostat
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A thermostat is a device that automatically controls the temperature of a heating or cooling system in a home or building. It matters because it allows people to maintain comfortable indoor temperatures without having to manually adjust their heating or cooling equipment.
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30 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Construction and control
- Sensor types
- History
- Mechanical thermostats
- Bimetal
- Wax pellet
- Automotive
- Shower and other hot water controls
- Analysis
- Gas driven switch
- Pneumatic thermostats
- Electrical and analog electronic thermostats
- Bimetallic switching thermostats
- Contact configuration nomenclature
- Simple two wire thermostats
- Millivolt thermostats
- 24-volt thermostats
- Line-voltage thermostats
- Digital electronic thermostats
- Thermostats and HVAC operation
- Ignition sequences in modern conventional systems
- Combination heating/cooling regulation
- Heat pump regulation
- Thermostat location
- Setback temperature
- Dummy thermostats
- See also
- Notes and references
- External links
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A thermostat is a regulating device component which senses the temperature of a physical system and performs actions so that the system's temperature is maintained near a desired setpoint.