Honeywell manuals - I think most of these are digital though.
http://yourhome.honeywell.com/yourho...chResults.aspx

so is it the older style round kind and not digital ?

I just heat with a wood stove but I;m trying to recall my parents thermostat and how it worked.

Theirs had the red indicator for the highest temp or -stop heating at this temp approx 68-70 degrees

and the had a black indicator for the lowest temp usually 60 ish

You are NOT going to believe what happened.

I have been jumping through hoops to try and get the answer.

I went online to Honeywell, and because I don't know the exact model number, well, I can't find the answer THAT way, right?

so this morning, I'm walking to breakfast and I pass 3 construction workers working on the street, I walked up to them and said "May I please ask you a thermostat question?" They laughed and said "sure".

I asked the question, one of them burst out laughing and said "All the thermostats I deal with are digital, BUT MY MOTHER HAS ONE OF THOSE OLD ONES". "BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY WORK"

And I wasn't about to ask him to use his cell phone to call up his mother.

(I DID give that a thought though!!!!)

So as I'm walking home, I see my neighbors, and I ask THEM the question. Every single one of them knew what I meant, BUT IT WAS YEARS SINCE THEY USED ANYTHING BUT DIGITAL. No one knew!!

So I come home, and I call up Honeywell. That's right, I CALLED UP HONEYWELL!!!

And guess what they said?

They had no clue. Unless you give them a model number, they don't know any facts about thermostats.

So I said "don't you have any older people working there who might have come across one of the older models"?

She says "Let me ask my supervisor".

She comes back and says: 'No, no one knows about anything other than digital".

So this morning, I called my landlady and asked "did you leave it on Red as I suggested and did the heat come up this morning?"

She said "yeah".

so that's it. Heat is ON!!!

When I try and help people.... I REALLY TRY AND HELP PEOPLE!!!.

lol lol lol lol

Melody

Hey Mel... talked to my dad about this... he found an old one like you are describing and I think we figured it out.

On his the red line is the desired temp and the green was the actual temp...the green line moved up or down depending on where the red line was set. The red line moved when we adjusted the dial.

Hope this helps.

Abbie

NOPE!!

Completely different thermostat (the one you have).

The one that I have has the red thing and the green thing BOTH ON THE SIDES OF THE THERMOSTAT. The temperature reading is in a little display thing and there is a round thing in the middle of the thermostat with a BLACK pointer. This black pointer points to the exact temp. It usually indicates that my apartment is 70 degrees.

Now on the right of this round thing (outside of the thermostat), is the red and green thingees.

The red one is set to 70, and the green one is set to zero. We don't want the heat to come up after 11 p.m. at night.

So (in my home), we know that the red thingee is for the daytime (when it comes up at 6 a.m. and goes off at 11 or so).

And the other one (the green one), would have been for nighttime.

I will never understand thermostats, and if I owned my own home, I'd have the digital one that all my friends have.

I'm probably the only one on the block (besides my landlord) who has this older non-digital thermostat.

I DO thank you so much for trying to help.

If I ever find a website that shows my thermostat, I'll post a link here so you can all know what I'm referring to.

Thanks much

Melody