Controls

"These controls are to control when your hotwater and heating comes on. There are may different types starting with; Room Thermostats; A room thermostat manages your central heating. A normal room stat is when you manually turn the heating on and off or leave it at a set temperature. These thermostats can be hardwired but there is also the wireless room thermostats ( also called rf room thermo stats ). Programmable room thermostats allow you to program the time you want your central heating to come on and turn off. Timeswitches These can be set up to program when you want your central heating or your hot water will come on and off. They will be set up to control one or the other. Only a programmer can do both simaltaniusly. Programers Programmers can control both your central heating and hotwater at the same time. You can program what times you want either to come on. You will notice some of the products will tell you how many channels they can handle. The amount of channels means ow many different areas it can control. For example; a 3 channel programmer can control your hot water, your heating and if you have another heating zone it will be able to control that too. People have heating zones when they want to zone off large houses and have control over which rooms/floors the heating comes on. You can also have hot water zones that can be programmed as well. "