Emerson1F97-1277 Touchscreen 7-Day Programmable Thermostat for Single-Stage and Heat Pump Systems

After doing quite a bit of research I purchased this over a comparable Honeywell and once I figured out how to use it am pretty happy with it. For awhile though I did think that it was haunted and the instructions manual is not very good. The installation instructions are even worse as it refers you to your equipment instructions for wiring information. I had to rely on wire color coding to be able to install the unit. If it weren't for these drawbacks I would have rated the unit higher.Two reasons that I chose this over the Honeywell was that it has a 5 year warranty and offered a lot more user-adjustable features, although you won't find the warranty mentioned anywhere aside from the spec sheet on the Manufacturer website. The self-install Honeywell only offers a one year warranty and the 5 year warranty model has to be professionally installed or the warranty is voided.What I thought was an advantage also turned out to be the most frustrating thing with this unit, which was all of the features and adjustments offered. To get the unit to function as I liked, I had to disable a number of the features. The first issue that I had was the unit seemingly changed the temperature randomly from what I had programmed. I had to disable the "Automatic Schedule" feature as it was somehow over-riding what I thought I had programmed into the unit. I also had to disable the "Energy Management Recovery" feature that would adjust the temperature early to get to the desired temperature at the time programmed, instead of changing the temperature at the programmed time. I found that the feature activated way too early and it also appeared to have switched to the manual mode until the programmed time, which made me think the unit was malfunctioning until I watched it and saw it switch back to the Program Mode.For those of you switching from an older digital unit you will find that this unit keeps the temperature very tightly controlled. It apparently measures the temperature more precisely (fractionally) than displayed and turns on and off to keep the temperature at precisely the selected temperature, although occasionally it would drop one degree fahrenheit below the set temperature.I also liked the blue LCD color as opposed to the typical green LCD color.

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First one lasted 12 years until digital numbers failed. This one is working great.

Am very happy with this non-wifi thermostat. As my old White Rodgers thermostat failed, I had to have two heating guys figure out how to rewire my furnace system to come up with the new 'C` wire. Actually the furnace guy could not figure that out, I had to hire a thermostat specialist. OK, got the C wire. Tried a wi-fi Honeywell unit with a wi-fi remote sensor. I cannot begin to tell you my bad experience with that. The remote wi-fi sensor did work, but had so much 'intelligence' built into it that it was useless. All I needed was the sensor to REPORT back to the thermostat. I could put the sensor outside the window in 40 degree air and it would take an hour for the sensor to slowly increment it's reporting down to 40 degrees to the thermostat unit. OK I dumped the useless Honeywell and installed this Emerson unit myself, knowing what all the wires were from /to the furnace system. I installed it with an Emerson WIRED remote sensor. The manual was OK, good even... Any questions I had were answered by the VERY helpful Emerson help line.

I now own two of these thermostats. Very happy with the features. It does have a lot of programming features but it doesn't have features that I will never use. The price is reasonable. It has a lot of setup features which I love. You can calibrate the temperature if you need to. You can set it up with the back light on or set it up it so the back light comes on when you touch the screen. I like the feature if you change the temperature it will go back to the programmed temperature after 4 hours or you can touch "hold" and the new temperature setting will stay until you hit "run program" to make it go back to the original programmed temperature. Has more features but these are my favorite features. Excellent not to complicated thermostat.