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thermostat
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A thermostat is a device that automatically controls the temperature of a heating or cooling system in a home or building. It matters because it allows people to maintain comfortable indoor temperatures without having to manually adjust their heating or cooling equipment.
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Within Vinony's link graph, thermostat is referenced by 675 other articles, and connects out to Radiant heating and cooling systems, mechanical fan and vacuum tube.
It is catalogued under topics including 17th-century inventions, American inventions and Dutch inventions.
Its subject is documented across 56 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Subclass of
- HVAC control system
- Has part
- bimetallic strip
- Image
- Lux Products TX9600TS Thermostat.jpg
- Has use
- temperature control
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- Commons category
- Thermostats
- discoverer or inventor
- Warren Seymour Johnson
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Encyclopedic overview
30 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Construction and control
- Sensor types
- History
- Mechanical thermostats
- Bimetal
- Wax pellet
- Automotive
- Shower and other hot water controls
- Analysis
- Gas driven switch
- Pneumatic thermostats
- Electrical and analog electronic thermostats
- Bimetallic switching thermostats
- Contact configuration nomenclature
- Simple two wire thermostats
- Millivolt thermostats
- 24-volt thermostats
- Line-voltage thermostats
- Digital electronic thermostats
- Thermostats and HVAC operation
- Ignition sequences in modern conventional systems
- Combination heating/cooling regulation
- Heat pump regulation
- Thermostat location
- Setback temperature
- Dummy thermostats
- See also
- Notes and references
- External links
thumb|A digital thermostat thumb|right|Honeywell's "The Round" model T87 thermostat, one of which is in the collection of the [[Smithsonian.]] thumb|right|A touch screen thermostat thumb|right|An electronic thermostat in a retail store
A thermostat is a regulating device component which senses the temperature of a physical system and performs actions so that the system's temperature is maintained near a desired setpoint.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “thermostat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.