Complete review of a Honeywell t4 right now: hey guys, Joshua Griffin here serving the middle Peninsula and the Northern Neck of Virginia, and if you're watching this just wanted to do a quick review of a thermostat that we we've been stalled. Quite a few of them. It's not the fanciest thermostat in the world, but what I'm talking about is a Honeywell t4 and I just want to kind of go through a few things. Maybe some tips and tricks with it kind of a as you can see.

More of like a square. Look! A Honeywell kind of loop has been going to you, know, kind of that look and the display is, I would say, not huge, but not as small as some of the models that they've made in the past, and it's not a bad looking thermostat I for the Price point: it's actually a pretty nice thermostat again. This is a t4 we've also done. The t-6s, which looks very similar just has a little more functionality and I'm just gon na kind of go through a few things.

It does have. This particular model has the battery backup I've already popped it in the base plate on this, and the base plate on these is actually comparable to. Instead of the you know, the old-school base plates that had the set screws that would hold the wires. This has where you would, you know, hold it in with just you know, pushing it up in there, so stuck in there pretty good right now but anyway, so I just want to kind of go through it.

I just put the batteries in it. You can kind of see the date flashing there and you got to input the date. I we have noticed from experience that one of the quirks with this thermostat is even with the and, if they, if the thermostat is hardwired and not doesn't have battery backup every time the power goes out or blips, you have to reset the day. It doesn't necessarily if the power hasn't been out very long.

It doesn't necessarily lose the programming once you program it we're going to go through that in a minute, but it does lose the date for whatever reasons kind of little quirks. So you know: we've had some customers that we didn't put the batteries in it if it was hardwired with the older models, we wouldn't put the batteries in it because, unlike say, like a smoke detector that where the batters would be back up with the Honeywell thermostats, If you put batteries in it, it will run off the batteries and if the batteries get low, you have issues, and things like that. So you know with the older of ProSeries thermostats. We would leave the batteries out if it was hardwired just because that was better for the customer.

Really, you know they wouldn't be calling us just for you know if they weren't having heat or AC. Just for a look, you know to replace batteries so anyway, I'm gon na kind of go through this real quick again. If the power goes out, you're gon na have to reset the day, if you don't put the batteries in it. So since then, unfortunately, we've been having to you know, go ahead, put the batteries in there.

So that way, if I don't know what it is about, the area in Virginia we are in, but it seems like the power does go out from time to time for different reasons. Obviously storms, but just sometimes it just goes out anyway. So let me kind of go through some things. It says, select there and I say: select I've noticed when you're doing a lot of things on here.

It actually means enter, or you know at least that's what I would call it to like. So like right now, 2016, as you can see, of course, during the making of this video, it's the year 2019, so we're gon na bring that up to 2019 and instead of it hit, you know you, don't you don't hit enter or anything you hit select. Okay, so let me put the date in here: real quick and once you put the date in it will automatically bring up the right day after that. It'll, ask you if you want the 12 hour or 24 hour format our, and so they ask you for the time and then it's gon na go through a series of numbers.

So you see it's this 120 and then a big three below that. I'm not gon na go through everything. As far as that goes, you it'll be in the manual here. If you're having it installed by us, you know we'll hold that obviously program it for you.

I am gon na go through a couple, quick things with this. One of those being, if you see one 120, it gives you a couple different options for the programming. Hopefully that is focusing better than what it looks like on my screen, but you know so you could do non-programmable. Five-Two five-two would be you know, five weekdays and then your your weekend, your two-week this weekend days and then five one one would be your five weekdays and then a Saturday and a Sunday different programming and then, of course, seven-day is a different program.

A different schedule of being ran for each and every day. So that's that if, as you cycle through you're gon na get to what type of system it is under 2:05, hopefully you can see that and if you're not sure what kind of system you have, then you need to find out because just keeping it on what It's on will change things the reversing valve, depending on what brand it is. So if you see that says, oh or B for the reversing valve that will change based on, if you have a heat pump system depending on what brand it is, it may energize and cooling it may energized and heating as a general rule. During the making of this video, most brands do energize in the Oh during the cooling season, but today's the four brands that I know of off the top of my head are Rheem rude, Ameristar and Bosch those four heat pump, brands, all energized and heating mode.

So it'd be a B, it would energize B what else the cycle rates I usually don't mess with I've, never messed with it. In my entire career and I've never had an issue. If it, you know, if it thinks that it should be this or that cycle based on what kind of system it is I've never messed with that, the factory sets that, and I just leave it leave it alone. Let's see, fan 230 fan controls the heat or the heat controls, the fan or the thermostat controls.

The fan that will play a really dependable kind of system. You have a lot of heating systems will control the fan. In other words, it doesn't want you to bring the fan on right away, it'll blow cold. If you do that, but if you don't program that correctly and your heats running, but it's not blowing the fan.

That may be why maybe you need to turn that function on number 300 system changeover that I did a whole video on an auto changeover. Basically, it's a temperature range. We usually do three degrees, but just a temperature range that you can set where if it gets above it it'll bring on the the AC if it gets below that range it'll bring on the heat - and you know here in Virginia, not sure where, if you're watching This, where you're located, but in virgin there are some Nala days where at night our heat comes on and during the day, the AC components just a weird weird, sometimes, and then you can also, if you see 303 change that that range, it says: temperature change over Differential, basically, that's the range, so usually we do flurry, but you can do all the way up to five back up heat droop. Usually we set that to two what that is, especially if you're running a heat pump.

What it'll do is, if you see comfort, is what it's normally set on and what that means is we fed it for two, because if your heats running it's it, you know it's during the winter season and you want you know if it gets cold in there. Your heat pump comes on well, if it's really cold in there, it's going to bring on the backup heat strip. So that's what the heat group is. Whatever you set that at which, like I say, we set it at two if it get to becomes a two degree difference between the room that you earth at room temperature and what you have the heat set at.

It will bring your heat strips along. So obviously, if it drops below two or you change it up above two, it will bring those heat strips one. In that case, the next one is probably one of my most favorite features. I think I did a video on this alone as well and 350.

That's your backup heat stage. Timer reason I love this is not only is an awesome feature and I'll kind of go through that in just a second, but at the price point that the t4 is, I mean you're talking you know somewhere between. You know fifty to a hundred bucks spent on which model you get, but for a t4 t6 at that price point. That is such a neat feature because usually thermostats at that price point are, you know, base model thermosets.

They don't have a lot of functionality. So let me go through that real quick. So what is the upstage timer upstage timer? What that is is especially like where they keep palm and so like. Let's just say that the scenario are just painted where you have a two degree difference between the room temperature and what you have the temperature set at well with this, whatever you set it at, so we usually just set it to one which is thirty minutes there.

You can see where you can increase it from that, but what its gon na do is perfect. If you set it for thirty minutes, it's gon na give that heat pump. Thirty minutes it's gon na give it a chance to bring the temperature up in that room before it brings on the second stage heat which is kind of cool, because you know it saves energy. It's gon na give that heat point.

You know there's times where you might go, let's say you go to work and you're running a schedule and you know you have it set to raise up to. You know it's cool during the day and then you want the heat to kick on and and bring it up to heat that evening, when you're getting home. If you have that upstage timer, it's going to give that heat pump a chance to reach that temperature. Before it's going to bring on those heat strips that do draw more energy now, I'm talking about backup heat strips a lot same goes for if you have a dual fuel system.

Unfortunately, the t4 doesn't do a dual fuel, but I think some of the t-series, the upper models, do do do-do-do a dual fuel system, so that's kind of cool again it goes through the some of the cycles. After that, I'm not gon na really talk about that. I don't mess with it a whole lot. I don't mess with the compressor protection it comes come set for five.

I think you should probably leave that alone. It makes you what have to wait a little bit longer sometimes, but it does protect your compressor. There's no horn offs allotted it's gon na go through five minutes making it sit there before it tries to bring it on again: 4:25 adaptive and telleth jim. Let's see adaptive adaptive, intelligent recovery and what that is is well.

Let me read: it here says no adaptive intelligent recovery is a comfort. Setting heating or cooling equipment will turn on earlier. Ensuring the indoor temperature will match the setpoint at the scheduled time. So, what's cool about that is this thermostat will actually learn your home a little bit and what that means is, if you're running a schedule and you get home at five o'clock every day after work and you have it set well, I want it to be a Certain temperature at five o'clock when I get home it will learn.

Okay, it took me twenty two minutes to reach that temperature, so it will actually turn on twenty two minutes before your scheduled time. So it's at the temperature you want it to be at when you get home kind of cool, usually leave that on. I don't usually mess with that. You know you can if you need to minimum and maximum set points after that, I think that's pretty self-explanatory.

The factory set points are usually 50 and 90. I always change that. I usually go wash your steaming truck here. I usually go 60 and 85 or you go 65 and 85.

I don't see any reason why you would ever want it to be warmer than that or cooler than that in your house. Plus your system may not be designed to go warmer or cooler than that, so that's kind of why we always do that. Keypad lockout most most of the folks watching this will probably leave that alone. We've turned that on in certain scenarios, we did a college dorm years ago, where the college kids kept messing with the temperature.

So we we had to lock the keypad out and and all that, what else there's other reminders you can turn one as you move throughout the programming filters. Things like that back waiting, whether you want to be continuous or just turning one other than that there's a temperature offset on there. I don't usually mess with that. I have had to do that once or twice before.

Thank you and then, finally, in a daylight savings time, you could turn on or off so anyway for the price point, it's a pretty pretty good little thermostat, I'm not getting paid by Honeywell. To do this, we do a lot of Honeywell's at Griffin, air compared to other thermostats. You know, there's again, there's other thermostats that are way fancier way, cooler looking way more bells and whistles all that good stuff. But for the price point I don't know a lot of other thermostats that on the market that look as good or can do just as much so anyway.

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