Big Apple's Proportional Thermostat

You mentioned a night drop feature in your Ranco Thermostats. I recently purchased 2 of these thermostats and did not notice this feature. Could you provide more info on model and such. All we do here ,for a night drop, is turn off the systems. Room is typically at 78 degrees. Drops the warmest area of caging/racks to room temp instead of the daytime 88 degrees.

You will have to go through your options and then you should come across a another number after setting the desired temp and then do the drop. You can drop as low as 30 F, but you wouldn't want to, just select what you want to drop.

That number after setting the desired temp is the temperature differential. It is not a night drop. That number can be set from 1f - 30f. What it does is tell the thermostat how tight to hold the temp.

For example, if you set your desired temp to 90f and the temp differential to 1, the thermostat will turn on at 89f and off again at 91f. You can see the problem if you set it for 30. Yes it will allow it to drop the temp significantly but it will also allow temps to reach 120f before it shuts off.

I've been using one of these thermostats for about a month now, and I'm really pleased with it as well. To solve the one outlet inconvenience, I plugged a 6-outlet surge-protector strip into it, and then plugged my heating cables into the plug strip. Just make sure that you don't overload the capacity of the thermostat if you're using multiple devices.

Annie Hemstock