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This fan is okay. It warms a cold, marble bathroom on a cold morning. I would expect that the fan would allow directional changes via a baffle but it does not. It was installed in an area of the bathroom ceiling that could accommodate it if the direction of the warming could be adjusted it would be all that much better. If only I had known to look for that as an option -don't know if I'd have found a product that could direct the heat. It was hard enough to find something that would just heat a medium sized bathroom.

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Reviews of US Stove 11DIKL Draft Induced Kit

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The thermostatic wheel has no cut off for the fan when the fire in the stove goes out. Only has a over heat safety cut off at 200deg. The manual switch button not included in the kit. The hardware to attach blower to stove has to long screws. Bottom left screw is nearly impossible to install.Can't get any help from manufacturer on any of the issues this is the reason for going down to 2 stars. Look for a different brand if possible...or get ready for headaches.

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As some of the previous reviews stated the directions do leave a bit to be desired, but if you look closely and read it step by step you'll get it installed without much difficulty. Installation took a little longer that I had anticipated. End result is fantastic, I'm very pleased with the function and burn results.

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Just installed this yesterday, it did a great job of conserving coal and keeping the fire going through the night nice and hot in the morning. Seems like a quality built, will update if there should be any issues...now the bad part, the directions that come with it are absolutely terrible...they have you referencing pages that they don't provide you with...fortunately I'm an electrician so I didn't need them to wire it and had it together in about 10 minutes but your regular homeowner would never be able to get this working properly without calling customer care. Also there is a jumper that must be removed to allow the thermostat to control the fan (this isn't even mentioned in the instructions) if you don't remove it the blower will simply run regardless of thermostat setting...I'd definitely recommend the product, however prepare to get angry when installing

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This product works great with our wood burning furnace. My husband just sets the temperature upstairs on the temp. control panel and loads the furnace with the wood and this "draft thing" just does its thing and in the house is comfortable warmth. We usually set it at 72 F and this product just keeps it that way. Before we got this item the house sometimes got so hot we had to open windows and doors in middle of the winter because in the house was 82 F. We couldn't control how much warmth would go inside house before. But now we just load the furnace every 8-10 hours, so pretty easy.

I would recommend this product to everybody with wood burning furnaces.

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I have some background in electronics, and was able to install this myself.

But the documentation was sparse, a single sheet with a schematic.

There's no reason an amateur couldn't install this blower safely, except for the complete lack of instructions.

That lack required me to go buy a replacement thermostat when the supplied thermostat melted.

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I just had a new AC system put in, and the installer suggested I replace my Honeywell Chromagraph III, which I loved. However, he was right and it was old, and had no backlight, so at night I had to keep a flashlight nearby. He wanted to go with another brand, but with my previous experience with Honeywell, and because of the excellent reviews here, I insisted on the Honeywell TH8320. I don't regret it for a second. Does everything my previous thermostat did, and more! Like the other unit, it automatically switches from heat to cool (but NOTE: it comes set as a default as Heat OR Cool, so you have to go into the Installer instructions to make it automatic, but it's easy to do that), it can have an always-ON night light (bye bye to that flashlight now!), it has a FAN Circulation mode (runs 35% of the time, which is great and at night you aren't frozen out), it has a wonderfully easy to use touch screen, and this one can do a whole lot of other things I don't need (like run 3 heat and 2 cool systems, plus heat pumps and emergency heat). Basically, all 4 of the Honeywell 8000 units are nearly identical -3 are supposed to be installed by professional installers (the 8320, which is this unit; the 8321 which adds humidity control, and the 8110, which only has hook ups for 1 heat and 1 cool system but has all the same features), and the 8500, which is designed as a do-it yourself thermostat. I don't have that one, but because my 8320 had 2 manuals (one for the homeowner and one for the installer, my guess is that the 8500 tells you everything you need to know without pretending it is for the professional installer). And believe me, my installer didn't even look at the installer manual and didn't know how to to switch to the fully automatic function or the night light, and he didn't have a clue that there is a special installer TEST program to test his installation, but luckily I read BOTH manuals and showed him. So if you get one of these units -and I highly recommend them -make sure you read BOTH manuals. As I said, the Installer manual has some very important features. But the unit itself is great, and even my wife loves it!

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I have a habit of replacing thermostats in houses with high tech, programmable ones that try but never really make it "easier" to use. IE, the wife says, "how do I make it warmer in here?" and I reply "push the red button." What seems obvious to one person, it's necessarily so to another.

So we've had a junky old thermostat in this latest home of ours and we absolutely hated it. It was easy to set (move the little lever on top left or right) but doing so made a HUGE difference (+/-5 degrees) and it was impossible to ever get it set "just right." Even when set close to where we wanted, the temperature swung about 5 degrees before activation/deactivation so it was always either too warm or too cold.

I finally fixed it with this thermostat. This is easily the best thermostat I've ever owned. Installing it was much less problematic than others I have bought. I'm not a contractor but neither do I fear yanking the panel off my heat pump/furnace to see how it's wired, and wire up the thermostat accordingly. The manual walks you right through setting up the "one time" setup options and then voila, it works!

Programming is a cinch. My wife has made programming changes to it a few times so that makes two of us that think the interface is very user-friendly. We leave the backlight on low all the time, so it is easy to find and alter in the middle of the night, which we do very infrequently now that we've got it set "just right."

One gotcha: by default, temperature settings and times are "targets" and this thermostat will attempt to be at the target temperature at the set time. So if you have it set to warm up the house to 68° at 7AM, the furnace will kick on before then to make sure the house is warmed up to 68 at 7.

Bah! I'm still happily under the comforter at 6:30 and if the heat kicks on, I start roasting and wake up. Not good! But that is easy to change.

I also bought the outdoor temp sensor, which I'll get around to hooking up soon...

UPDATE: I did get that temp sensor hooked up last summer, and it works GREAT! We refer to it far more often than walking over to the window to look at the outdoor thermometer. The thermostat has continued to work flawlessly. So well, we nearly forget that the thermostat exists.

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Buyer beware....I purchased this thermostat justifying the cost versus other models with the energy efficiency. After owning the model only two years, it has been deemed "not fixable" by Honeywell but is not being replaced under the five year warrnaty as stated in the book because it was purchased online and not installed by a technician. The install is not that difficult and it obviously worked fine, but now they claim that the policy is void if not installed by a professional. If you want the warranty, buy elsewhere.

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This thermostat has lots of capability. Easy to program. Easy to override for temporary temperature. Note an important capability that only this unit has is the air circulation feature where the blower/fan runs 20min in every hour. This moves the air and prevents cold/hot spots. The temperature in the house will be uniform and comfortable.

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This thermostat is great! At first it seemed a little daunting, but once I read through the instructions once and tried it, it was a lot more intuitive than I thought it would be. Now it is easy to program, easy to override, and saves me money on heating or cooling rooms when they aren't being used. I program the playroom for heating in the early morning on weekends when the kids get up early to watch cartoons, and leave it off the rest of the week. The four periods a day are enough to cover most any situation. It gives a nice backlight glow when you use it and it can be a nightlight if you leave the backlight on. I dreaded changing thermostats, but I bought one and then bought two more for the other parts of my house. It works great!

Review of Caliber III Thermometer Hygrometer

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I laugh when I read reviews stating that a particular hygrometer is "accurate" or "not accurate." I know these reviewers can not really tell one way or the other. Even laboratory calibrators have problems with determining accuracy. But here I'm going to call the Caliber III reasonably "accurate" and explain why. I do critical environmental surveys as part of my professional work and use a variety of expensive analog and digital instruments, thermometer wet/dry bulb psychrometers, multi-hair recording hygrothermographs, some instruments with NIST certification (but not mirror instruments). I've bought several "cheap" analog and digital hygrometers costing under $150.00 (including the Caliber III) to play with and check for suitable monitoring use by my daughters who humidify and dehumidify their living and storage spaces for violins and violas. I give this little instrument 5 stars for being reasonably "accurate" for its low price and small size certainly accurate enough for musical instrument storage, cigar humidors, and the most simple basic room environmental monitoring. However, don't expect that "accurate" means what the instrument displays is what the environment really is. And do not expect these inexpensive instruments to all read the same when placed side-by-side. And do not trust bag/salts solution verification or for "calibration." Even laboratory closed environmental chambers used for calibration purposes are difficult to manage. All the inexpensive instruments I purchased and all my costly professional instruments costing into the thousands do not give exactly the same readings when placed together in my laboratory controlled climate chamber. Do not expect a lot of precision in humidity measurement for a number of factors too complicated to go into here but related to airborne particles and various gaseous molecules in the air. RH is notoriously difficult to pinpoint with accuracy and a lot of work has gone into trying for critical industrial operations. For most instruments costing under around $150.00 that are displaying, let's say, 50% RH, just believe the actual RH is anywhere in the range 46-54% at best. Accept that limitation. Its hard to do, though, when you see that single digital number displayed. But you need to think in ranges only. And just like the mechanical/analog instruments, even the better ones with multiple strands of human hair, the potential range of digital instrument reading variations from actual RH will widen as your environment comes to either extreme from 50% RH, though not as much with digital as with mechanical/analog. This is important for the cigar keepers. If your better low cost digital unit is reading 65% RH, it really can be within the range of 50-75% RH but there is the "probability" (and that's all you can count on) that it is around 55-65% RH, and not likely 70% RH due to the upper end resistance to accurate measurements of all instruments. Forget using mechanical/analog "dial" instruments for humidors. The only ones reasonably accurate would not fit in most humidors. Using these at the extreme of 65% RH, if that is your target, is asking too much of them as the further from 50% RH the environment, the more resistant these are to reading the actual. However, for larger humidor cases, I have found the Oakton 357 to be good enough (I have three)and can give you some confidence that if its displaying 65% RH, its probably 60-70 RH. For instruments up to $1,000, a 50% RH reading probably represents actual RH of 48-52% RH. Do not expect more. One other thing you must know about digital hygrometers, and this is critical to recognize, they are fast(the more you pay for the sensor within it, the faster its response) and they quickly read their local environments which includes your body heat, skin moisture, breath moisture, and varying temperature and humidity in local air currents you may not even feel. You are a walking warm cloud. Certainly don't hold one and expect it to match another instrument sitting next to it on a shelf! The heat of your hand warms the plastic case raising the temperature reading and thus also drastically affecting RH. Don't even stand within three feet of a sensitive and fast digital instrument and expect it to match the display of one four feet from you. Also, this digital instrument and others like it will detect and display numbers representing something close to the real differences in the environment that can exist just inches apart. That's why two of the same instruments next to each other may not match its not bad quality but high sensitivity. This speed and accuracy of even inexpensive hygrometers is probably the sole cause of people complaining about "inaccuracy" of digital hygrometers and the frustration they experience. The differences they observe in the readings can be really due to accurate sensitivities. Though digital relative humidity monitors tend to be fast, and the more you pay the faster they are, for many purposes the less fast the better because their relative slowness tends to eliminate the small local differences in environments that make people think their instruments are going "haywire." For more information related to how difficult it is to really get accurate RH readings and difficulty in calibration, you must read "The Trouble with Humidity" under the tab "Publications" on the Veriteq.com website. If you want just "a little more accuracy", you can get "a little more accuracy" by paying a few extra hundred dollars, like over $500 for a Vaisala HM34. For the price, and considering how nearly impossible it is to get a true measurement of RH, maybe its good enough for you just to know, for example, "well, the RH is likely to be somewhere between 45 and 55 according to this instrument because its displaying 50."

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I bought this hygrometer after a lot of research. I use it to monitor the humidity level in my acoustic guitar cases. The hygrometer is compact (fits nicely in guitar cases), is easy to read, and has the nice feature of a record of highs and lows. It is very responsive, in fact I bought two (two guitars!) and tested them side by side, and they basically changed simultaneously. If you pick it up, within seconds the recorded humidity level changes just from the moisture of your hand! It has the industry reputation for being the most accurate hygrometer, and my experience bears that reputation out. I highly recommend this hygrometer for acoustic guitar owners, though for whatever reason it is typically just listed for cigar humidors guitar makers, dealers, and players should all take notice.

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I used the Boveda One-Step Calibration to see how accurate this hygrometer is and the Caliber III was dead on. What you see is the actual humidity rating. I have used other hygrometers before, but this is the most accurate one I have come across.

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I must be the unlucky one. I was convinced that this hygrometer would be accurate as all the reviews say. Unfortunately I must have got the few that passed QA. I purchased the One Step EZ Hygrometer Calibrating Kit from a local cigar store and after following the directions to the T, my hygrometer was reading +4%. I thought it had to do w/ how the room temperature was affecting the reading. So I conducting two other tests where the room temp was at 80 degrees and one at 65 degrees. Still it read 79% humidity for both tests when the Calibration kit says it should be reading 75%.

Long story short which every hygrometer you purchase I would recommend purchasing a calibration kit and just put a sticky note on your hygrometer w/ the +/of how much it's off to remind you of the true reading.

hth,

ant

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(by Angela's husband)

Simple but does the job. I got one of the calibration kits where you put the hygrometer in a bag which creates a certain humidity that you can compare to the reading on the hygrometer. The hygrometer seemed to be right on. I like that it saves high and low temperature and humidity.

Review of St. Lawrence Ivory Electric Fireplace

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Received my fire place in two shippments. Was a little worried that It wasn't clear that there were two boxes. received the fire box first and after speaking with the manufacture (which was no help no one avaialable that could help in customer service). The second shipment arrived with the actual fire place but with no instructions. Once it was together it was beautiful and works perfect. I would recomment to others especially because of the price..

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I was looking for something to take the chill out of the bathroom with more wattage than an infrared heat bulb, and this low profile unit appeared to be less of a remodel than similar wall units. I was able to cut a hole in the kick panel under existing bathroom cabinets and wire it to a timer, and it definitely warms up the room. I wired it on a dedicated 220V circuit but it has a jumper if you need to convert it to 110V. My only complaint is that the height of the housing was a couple of millimeters taller than the gap from the floor to the bottom of my cabinet face. This meant I had to notch out the width of the housing from the bottom edge of the cabinet face, fortunately this could be done under a drawer so the drawer face conceals the cut edge. The horizontal overhang of most cabinet faces may also exceed the recommended maximum so far this has not presented any problems for me when running on a timer, but continuous duty might be a problem for heat sensitive finishes on cabinet faces.

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I have had the Broan kickspace heater for 4 years and have had to replace the two heater elements three times. Luckily, I have expertise in electricty and repaired it myself. On the other hand, the elements have increased in price to the point that the next time the elements need replacing, I will search for another brand.

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I bought three of these for my condo remodel and am very pleased. Wired the two bathroom heaters at 750 watts and the one for the kitchen at 1500 watts -all to timers. The units heat quickly and are totally invisible.

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The heater is being used in my kitchen renovation and it is a bit noisy, however it heats the area just fine

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Great product! Heater tucks neatly into kickspace of our bathroom vanity. Opening for unit easily cut out with a dremel. Electrician hardwired it. We opted for a timer switch in the wall rather than a thermostat switch as we only are using it when we shower. Put it on before your shower and come out to a nice warm bathroom!

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We got a State Select GS640YBRT natural gas water heater and this valve went bad. Nobody had it locally so i went online for it and found it here. While it's a bit different than the original one, it does the job and the heater is now working fine again.

I'm happy with the purchase and it saved me a few bucks from getting at a brick-and-mortar store, not to mention calling in the plumber.

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All Broan/Nutone heaters and exhaust blowers I purchased are noisy and vibrate excesivly. The positive is that one can hear if any fan is on,no matter where you are in the house.

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This model was everything that it was advertised to be. However when buying any newer products in todays market one must keep in mind you CAN NOT make a direct compaireson to an older model that you are replaceing! In this case the newer model was more noticeable when operating(noise level) than the model of 25yrs that it replaced. I was extreamly pleased with this purchase and the ease of dealing with amazon. I HIGHLY RECOMEND This product and Amazon.com.

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The diminsions were off a trifle but it seems to work fine. It heats the bathroom very well. The older heater was a higher

wattage unit but this is fine.

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I installed this Broan heater for a failed (30+ years) Newtone heater. The Broan fit into the same wall space with only a small bit ot hole enlargement.

The 1000 watt heater is a good choice for the space. The thermostat is better than the one in the Newtone.

The fan (a squirrel-cage blower) in the Broan is NOISY. Although the blower fan is quieter, the motor mount is such that there is a lot of AC HUM vibration. So, the rating of 3 stars It's OK but NOISY!

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I am using this for the bathroom at 220v. Starts to heat slowly and has a built in fan which will distribute heat but is a lot cooler compared to my old one which is just on and off. This has heat control setting too.