Remote sensor for line voltage thermostat?

hbridge

We want to move (or replace) the line voltage thermostat that currently controls two baseboard heaters in our living room and place the thermostat in the hallway next to the living room.

Is there such a thing as line voltage thermostat than can utilize (or comes with) a wired remote sensor and who makes it?

Thanks in advance for advice.

warmsmeallup

What is the total wattage of the 2 baseboard heaters?

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hbridge

Unfortunately, we don't know the wattage of the two heaters. We have removed the covers and cannot find any markings. All we know is that they are on a 20 amp circuit.

micromind

Generally speaking, baseboard heaters are 250 watts per foot. At 240 volts, this is also known as 'just a shade more than 1 amp per foot'.

Is the 20 amp circuit 240 volts? Most likely it is, 120 volt baseboard heaters are rare.

Rob

hbridge

The heaters are each 8 feet long.

Sorry to be so ignorant about the ratings of our system.

Below is what is written on the circuit panel if this is any help.

LC240PC-200A Main combo
LC240PS-200A Main surface

"This panel has a max short circuit rating of 10,000 RMS SYM AMP at 240 volts."

warmsmeallup

Well, as it turns out, it's not doable. The company, Aube Thermostats, that did make a 240 volt tstat with a floor sensor (that you could have embedded into...something else..) to sense a given temperature. However, Honeywell recently bought the company and they discontinued the floor sensing ONLY line of Tstats. Now they are Ambient/Floor limiting, which will not work in your desired application.

You could take it a step further and use a standard 24v tstat that is floor sensing only to activate a relay..but that probably gets too involved for your purpose.

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hbridge

Many thanks for your help.

I guess we will have to make do with what we have.

weatherman

Since you have two electric baseboards to control, are they on the same circuit?
If so you will need a relay to mount at the circuit feed to the heaters that will operate of a thermostat (low voltage) wired to operate the relay for turning the base board on and off.
If not you will need two relays, one for each baseboard.