Honeywell CG511A1000 Medium Thermostat Guard with Inner Shelf to Prevent Tampering
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Honeywell CG511A1000 Medium Thermostat Guard with Inner Shelf to Prevent Tampering
Customer Review: Thermostat cover
Summary: 4 Stars
Nothing special. It does what it is supposed to do. Not really a secure device. Just keeps out honest people.Customer Review: Thermostat guard
Summary: 4 Stars
Good price, well made.
I bought it to keep the gremlins in my house from turning thermostat way up and way down.
A little larger than I expected though.
Customer Review: Very good product
Summary: 5 Stars
The cover works wonderful. I am a caretaker for an elderly woman in her mid nineties, and one day I woke up to the house temperature at 93 degrees! She doesn't know how to work the digital style thermostat we have, but decided it was too cold (72*) and just started pushing buttons! Needless to say, I went right to the computer and ordered this cover. It works wonderfully and it keeps anyone (my daughter as well) from tampering with the temperature.Customer Review: Works as it should
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased the thermostat cover for our Honeywell RTH7500D and it fits - just barely. The proportions are off. The thermostat is rectangular and the cover is closer to square - resulting in about 1/8" clearance on either side of the thermostat and probably an inch on the top and bottom of the thermostat. I would have preferred a shape which more closely resembled the thermostat but oh well, it works.
Other reviewers have recommended that you measure, very carefully, the thermostat and the actual opening on the cover to be sure it suits your needs. I recommend that as well.
It does what it's supposed to do - keeps wandering, well-meaning fingers from fiddling with the settings. Our system was constantly being turned off which is silly because it's programmed to turn off when not needed and on when the space will be occupied.
Amazon's price on this cover was about 1/2 to 1/3 what I'd seen in local big box home centers...a savings even if you have to pay for shipping.
Customer Review: Works fairly well - needed modification for additional ventilation
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this thermostat guard to cover our Honeywell RTH7500D Thermostat. It's very easy to install and fits the Thermostat perfectly. After installation, we noticed that the thermostat didn't detect changes in temperature very effectively, and therefore didn't turn on and off as expected.
For example, in the heating cycle, our thermostat was set to 70 degrees, and when covered by the thermostat guard would continue to detect a temperature of 70 degrees even when the room temperature dropped to 65 degrees.
Thinking this might result from insufficient air circulation around the thermostat, I cut one inch diameter holes in the thermostat guard - 2 in each side, 3 in top, and 2 in the bottom. With these additional "ventilation" holes, the thermostat turns on and off as it did before I put the guard on.
I've uploaded an image of the thermostat guard as installed with the holes cut in it. It is very difficult to fiddle with the thermostat settings through the holes, so cutting the holes hasn't affected the function of the thermostat guard.
So, if your thermostat doesn't work as expected after installing a thermostat guard, you can improve the situation by cutting a few holes in the guard - the acrylic/Lexan is thick enough to be cut without cracking.