Does your digital thermostat keep turning itself up? Down? Have a mind of its own?
If so, then you’ve come to the right place.
There are several reasons why your HVAC thermostat keeps changing temperature on its own, but the most likely cause is you have it in program mode.
Smart Honeywell Thermostat, displaying the ‘permanent hold’ text on the screen, indicating that the thermostat won’t jump around to random settings. On this particular model, the ‘permanent hold’ text, along with the temperature controls will disappear after a short time to keep a nice clean look on the thermostat.
If you do have a programmable thermostat, then you need to look for the ‘hold’ button. Manually turn the temperature up, or down to the desired setting, then press the ‘Hold’ button once. The word ‘hold’, or ‘permanent hold’, or something similar should appear on the digital thermostat.
Here is the permanent hold option on the Honeywell smart home thermostat. If you hit ‘run schedule’ it’s going to follow the factory settings schedule or the one that you programmed.
Here’s a popular Programmable thermostat display where the program mode is being bypassed. The ‘hold’ button is present and will hold that temperature until manually changed, or if the ‘run’ button is pushed. Pushing the ‘run’ button will put this thermostat into program mode.
Non-Programmable Thermostat Changes Temp on Its Own
I have seen this happen very rarely, but in the cases that I have seen it happen, it was due to faulty batteries. If batteries are in a digital thermostat that has the C, or common wire hooked up, sometimes they can go bad, and leak acid into the thermostat. Just replace, or remove the batteries and that should fix the problem.
If your non-programmable thermostat is still changing temperature on its own, and it doesn’t have the Common wire hooked up, and you’ve already replaced the batteries, then I would replace the thermostat. Although I have personally never seen this happen.
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