I was told to get a thermostat with “short Cycle delay”, what is that?
All Filtrete (TM) Thermostat from 3Ms with cool capability have a built in approximately 5 minute shot cycle delay from the time a compressor turns off until the thermostat will turn it back on. This is to prevent compressor stall. The delay in not present if the thermostat is turned from cool to off and back to cool or heat to off and back to heat and also if you do not have a C wire attached to the thermostat and there is a power outage. However, if you have a C wire attached and there is a power outage it will have a delay.
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