Honeywell RTH7500D Conventional 7-Day Programmable Thermostat

by Honeywell

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Keep your home comfortable and cash in on energy savings with the RTH7500D 7-Day Programmable Thermostat from Honeywell. Designed for quick installation and offering simple push-button controls and an easy-to-read screen, this thermostat lets you control the temperature of your home without having to make constant manual adjustments.

The RTH7500D 7-Day Programmable Push-Button Thermostat offers: Customized temperature setting for four periods per day Effective energy expense savings Backlit display and easy push-button design Intuitive adjustment for precise comfort control Compatibility with a range of heating and cooling systems

Convenient and Efficient for At-Home Comfort
You know that turning down your heat at night saves you money, but you hate waking up and making breakfast in a freezing cold kitchen. Or you don't want to run your AC all day while you're at work, but you want your home to be cool and comfortable when you get home. That's where a programmable thermostat makes all the difference.

The customized settings add luxury to your home while affording you valuable savings on your energy bill. View larger.

Every day is unique. With this thermsostat, enjoy the freedom of pre-programming to fit your different daily needs. View larger.

Offering you the ability to program each day differently and to customize temperatures for four periods per day, this thermostat makes it easy to heat or cool your home for optimum comfort. It features exclusive Honeywell Smart Response Technology and a feature that enables Auto Changes from Heating to Cooling, which continually adjust the pre-heating or cooling of your home for effective results and precise comfort control within one-degree F of your desired temperature.

Featuring a conventional layout with control buttons and a large viewing screen, along with an easy-to-understand menu-driven programming, this thermostat is simple to setup and use. For those who prefer touchscreen control, Honeywell also offers the RTH7600D.

An Easy Way to Save Energy and Money
If programmed as directed, this thermostat offers you the ability to save up to 33-percent on annual heating and cooling costs (savings may depend on the geographic region you live in and your energy usage).

For added convenience, the thermostat unit can be run using battery power or using power from your heating/cooling system, giving you the option of permanently eliminating battery changes.

Convenient, Intelligent Features and Broad Compatibility
This thermostat delivers permanent day and time settings that are even maintained during power outages, and it offers the option of automatically adjusting for Daylight Savings Time, as well as a filter change reminder function that can help you keep your heating/cooling system operating at its best.

This thermostat is compatible with a broad range of 24-volt heating and air conditioning systems, including both single-stage and multi-stage heating and cooling systems, heat pumps with and without auxiliary (back-up) heat, gas fireplaces, and heating only or cooling only systems. It is not compatible with electric baseboard heat (120-240 Volts).

The thermostat is backed by a one-year limited warranty.

About Honeywell
With over 120 years of trusted reliability, Honeywell International is a diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; turbochargers; and specialty materials.

Whether you're flying on a plane, driving a car, heating or cooling a home, furnishing an apartment, taking medication or playing a sport, Honeywell products touch most peoples' lives everyday. Honeywell technologies are found in more than 150 million homes, 10 million buildings and a multitude of manufacturing plants around the world.

What's in the Box
RTH7500D 7-Day Programmable Thermostat, wire labels, wall anchors, mounting hardware, and an installation and user guide

With personalized temperature control, your household enjoys comfort day and night.

Product Description

Keep your home comfortable and cash in on energy savings with the RTH7500D 7-Day Programmable Thermostat from Honeywell. Designed for quick installation and offering simple push-button controls and an easy-to-read screen, this thermostat lets you control the temperature of your home without having to make constant manual adjustments.

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 9 x 8.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000EW80Q0
• Item model number: RTH7500D
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (116 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)
  • #2 in Home Improvement > Building Supplies > Heating & Cooling > Thermostats & Accessories > Thermostats > Programmable
  • #30 in Home Improvement > Contractor Supply

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A non technical homeowner's experience in installing and using this thermostat., May 29, 2008

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MacHankStein (Monterey) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Honeywell RTH7500D Conventional 7-Day Programmable Thermostat (Tools & Home Improvement)

I purchased two of these thermostats through the Amazon website and installed them just before the start of the Memorial Day weekend. I am very pleased with both thermostats, but I did encounter a problem during the install of the upstairs thermostat. Although I had flipped the breakers labeled for the upstairs and downstairs heat pumps to the off position at the panel, the upstairs heat pump was still receiving power, because I blew a fuse in the heat pump during the install. Obviously this problem was caused by a lack of due diligence on my part - ensuring that the power to the heat pump and to the thermostat was really off. My wife and I went without air conditioning to the upstairs of our home for approximately 30 hours before a service technician arrived to find and replace the blown fuse.

If you have a volt ohm meter, I suggest that you verify that there is no power to the thermostat prior to the install. In doing the install yourself, you may find that you are at the mercy of the wiring provided for your old thermostat. For example, on our old downstairs thermostat, there was no common wire. When the heat pump (air conditioner) is on, the lead for the furnace is used as the common. When the furnace is on, then the wire for the air-conditioning is used as the common. Without a common lead as a reference, it was not possible to measure the voltage to our downstairs thermostat when neither the air conditioner nor the furnace is running. This led us to believe that we had no power to the thermostat even after we had switched the breaker back to the on position after the install. However, the thermostat worked fine. The service technician explained to us that in the original wiring to our old thermostat, the common was missing and that was why we could not measure the voltage.

I called the Honeywell support number on the back of the thermostat installation manual, and a technician located in New Deli answered immediately. The technician was friendly and knowledgeable.

Two messages that may appear on the thermostat after you install it may lead you to think you have made a mistake when nothing is wrong. First, if you have a heat pump and the word "Wait" appears on the thermostat display after turning the heat pump back on, then this is normal. As a precaution the thermostat waits five minutes before cycling the heat pump back up after it has been turned off. Second, if the word "Recovery" appears on the display when you first turn the furnace or air conditioner on, this simply means that you have the Smart Response Technology set to on, and your thermostat has turned on you air conditioner or furnace to reach the target temperature that you set in the schedule.

With my old mercury-based thermostats, I could not be certain that the correct temperature was displayed. Nor could I be certain of the actual temperature that I was setting the thermostat to. If I left the thermostat set to a high setting while we were away on summer days, then the house would not cool off before bed time after we got home. All of these problems are solved by our two programmable Honeywell thermostats, and I saved over $40.00 by buying the thermostats through Amazon rather than Home Depot.

55 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars programming difficulty, December 17, 2007

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Jon T. Stoddard "Former programmer" (Connecticut) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Honeywell RTH7500D Conventional 7-Day Programmable Thermostat (Tools & Home Improvement)

Easy to install and programming buttons are easy to understand. It is the display that is difficult to understand. Be very careful about the check mark before the days of the week. When you make a temperature input it will apply to EVERY day that has a check mark and erase what you previously inputted. You have to cycle through the days twice to eliminate the CHECK marks for the other days to enter in data for just one day.

There is room on the display to show you all your heating or cooling temperature settings for each day of the week, but they neglected to provide this so it is very difficult to review your inputs to be sure they are right and to correct for CHECK mark errors from above.

38 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wiring can be tricky, July 20, 2008

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Spud (Long Island) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Honeywell RTH7500D Conventional 7-Day Programmable Thermostat (Tools & Home Improvement)

This review is from the perspective of a novice. I replaced an 11-year-old thermostat with this one yesterday morning.

Installation was not a breeze as the claim on the product package would like you to believe (i.e., "designed to install in 15 minutes or less.") We have a 5-ton split central unit with the condenser outside of the house, and the coil and a gas furnace in the attic. Matching the wires to the new thermostat was not that straightforward. Our old system has 5 wires but the Intallation Guide only shows an example with 4 wires. After failing a few configurations, I finally gave up and called for technical support. The puzzle was then resolved.

Programming was mostly simple and easy but not always intuitive. You do need to read the Manual to figure a number of things out. An alternative may be the 8500 Touchscreen model, which seems to have more intuitive programming based on reviews from Amazon users.

Overall, I would recommend this thermostat. Just make sure that you do your installation during office hours when technical support is available from Honeywell.