[Hai-users] question about flush mount remote temp sensor

[Dan Hoehnen]

I can't answer the wire type question.  But, here is my experience with the
1 remote temp sensor I have installed.  Initially, it was mounted flush,
touching the wall.  This didn't seem to work very well.  Our thought was
that it was measuring the wall temp (at least partially) and this adversely
affected the temperature reading and/or speed of change.  I can't remember
the exact problem now since it was several years ago.

What we ended up doing was to lift the temp sensor off the wall just
slightly.  We then painted the sensor and it still worked fine.  I'm not
sure what wall paper would do.  You may find that you need to lift the
sensor slightly off the wall, and then glue a piece of wall paper to it
that's cut to its exact size.

This house has a boiler for heat, with radiators in each room.  It has
standard A/C.  

Regards,
Dan 

-----Original Message-----
From: hai-users-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:hai-users-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Joseph K. Vossen
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 9:17 PM
To: hai-users at tssi.com
Subject: [Hai-users] question about flush mount remote temp sensor

I'm getting ready to connect a flush mount remote temp sensor (model
23a00-2) so that I can move my tstat to get rid of some wall clutter.  For
this room, I would like to mount the tstat on the other side of the wall
where it is currently, which puts the tstat in the closet; in this case, the
wire run between the sensor and the tstat will only be about 6" or so.

Do I still need to use a shielded cable in this case since the run is so
short?  Would a piece of CAT5 work just as well and if so, do I still need
to connect anything to the black wire (which is supposed to be the shield)?

oh...and I assume you can paint over the metal disc, correct?  Is it OK to
also wallpaper over the disc?

thanks

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