Widen the heat/cool deadband so the system stops calling both modes.

The county annex office's heat-pump thermostat has its heating and cooling setpoints set only a degree or two apart, so on a day near the crossover temperature the system calls for heat, overshoots into the cooling setpoint, calls for cooling, and short-cycles between the two modes all day.

Where

the county annex office's heat-pump thermostat, Yorktown, TX 78164 (DeWitt County); best-estimate location near the town center, exact address not confirmed · Open the map

Pay

$70 proposed

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Proof

before setpoint/deadband record + manufacturer minimum reference + after setpoint record + single-cycle verification test + GPS

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-09-19

Posted by

0x034F…6c89

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How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. 1. Read and record the thermostat's current heating and cooling setpoints and the deadband between them before changing anything.
2. 2. Pull the manufacturer's minimum-deadband specification for this thermostat/heat-pump model.
3. 3. Widen the heating and cooling setpoints apart until the deadband meets or exceeds the manufacturer's minimum, entering the change on the thermostat's own menu.
4. 4. Run the verification test: watch one full call cycle and confirm the system runs to its setpoint and shuts off cleanly, without the opposite mode calling within the same cycle; record the result.

What counts as done

• Before record of the heating/cooling setpoints and the deadband between them
• Manufacturer's minimum-deadband specification referenced
• After record of the new setpoints and deadband, entered on the thermostat's own menu
• Verification test result: one full call cycle completing without the opposite mode calling

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Energy Efficiency Audit. Energy efficiency work begins with the walkthrough audit, the kind the ASHRAE standard describes: a trained eye moving through a building, reading the bills, the walls, the lights, and the equipment, and coming out with the short list of fixes worth doing first. Mastery looks like an auditor who can feel where a building is bleeding money within the hour, and prove it on paper. That instinct is trained by repetition on real buildings. This packet is one repetition: one system observed, one reading taken, one finding recorded the way the standard asks.