The thermostat provides a flexible setpoint configuration to give power to the building owner while being easy to use by the occupant. In addition to a simple up/down offset adjustment on the home screen for the occupant, there are six temperature setpoints on the TEC. The six temperature setpoints are Cooling and Heating setpoints for Occupied, Unoccupied, and Standby modes.
Note: The TEC enforces a 2-degree deadband between heating and cooling
setpoints. If a setpoint violates this standard (for example, cooling setpoint is set to
70 with a heating setpoint already set to 70), the opposing setpoint is modified to
comply with this deadband (in the previous example, the heating setpoint would
automatically change to 68).
The four modes of setpoint operation are described in Table 1.
Mode of setpoint operation | Details |
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Occ Setpoint Select = Setpoint Offset and Heat Cool Setpoint Mode = Individual Setpoints | This is the default mode and
the original mode of operation that the TEC was released with (the next
three modes are new). In this mode, the TEC has a heating setpoint and a
cooling setpoint. There is a common Setpoint Offset (warmer/cooler
adjust) that is applied to each setpoint simultaneously. The range of
setpoint adjustment is two-fold:
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Occ Setpoint Select = Min and Max Setpoints and Heat Cool Setpoint Mode = Individual Setpoints | In this mode, the TEC has a heating setpoint and a cooling setpoint. Each setpoint has a configurable range (Setpoints > Temperature > Min Cooling Setpoint, Max Cooling Setpoint, Min Heating Setpoint, and Max Heating Setpoint). The configurable range values are bounded by the larger constant bounds used in Setpoint Offset mode and are constrained in the following manner: Min must be below Max and Heating must be below Cooling, so in order from least to greatest, the values are: Min Heating Setpoint, Max Heating Setpoint, Min Cooling Setpoint, and Max Cooling Setpoint. |
Occ Setpoint Select = Setpoint Offset and Heat Cool Setpoint Mode = Common Setpoint | In this mode, the TEC has one setpoint, Common Setpoint, for heating and cooling. There is also a common Setpoint Offset (warmer/cooler adjust) that is only applied to Common Setpoint. Otherwise, this setting works the same as when Occ Setpoint Select = Setpoint Offset and Heat Cool Setpoint Mode = Individual Setpoints. |
Occ Setpoint Select = Min and Max Setpoints and Heat Cool Setpoint Mode = Common Setpoint | In this mode, the TEC has one setpoint, Common Setpoint, for heating and cooling. There is a configurable range for Common Setpoint, Min Setpoint, and Max Setpoint. |