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Shouldn’t the goal be to optimize for warmth equilibrium and efficiency? In turn it is the most efficient load for the furnace and also for comfort. If I were
by hbarka 5y ago
Shouldn’t the goal be to optimize for warmth equilibrium and efficiency? In turn it is the most efficient load for the furnace and also for comfort. If I were to optimize warmth for the 1st floor ignoring the 2nd floor, the heat loss towards the 2nd floor will still occur due to physics, and now the 1st floor zone will be working much harder because it’s really warming both floors now. What should the setting be for the 2nd floor in order to make it a blanket minimizing the upward travel of heat from the 1st floor?
- sp332 5y agoI don't know why you want to balance your furnace load between the two zones, but anyway if you're comfortable, you can do it by raising the upstairs temperature. But to optimize for comfort, set both thermostats the same, and let the lower floor do more work. If you're heating the same amount of air to the same average temperature, I don't see why the overall efficiency would be different.