I've been using the Apex to control my system temperature as tightly as possible. I shoot for a maximum total temp excursion of less than 0.5 degrees F throughout the day and night. I currently have two 200W NeoTherm heaters on one EB832 outlet. The NeoTherms' internal thermostats are set to 80 degrees, which none of my programming ever exceeds. As you can see from the graph below, with lower home air temperatures, the Apex is activating the outlet/heaters as many as 70 times in a 24 hour period. (The slight drop in average temp on Oct 1 represents the season table effect. Also, I let it drift a bit higher on warmer days.)
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My question is this: Obviously this is stressful, to some degree, on the Energy Bar and heaters. My question is how much. I'm not worried about the heaters particularly, those are not so expensive and easily replaced if they fail, but I wonder what kind of wear this represents for the energy bar. I think I read something months ago, maybe from this forum, that indicated that the relays in the EB832 should be good for a million or more activations (which, at 100/day, would give me 27+ years.) So is this use reasonable, or excessive/risky?
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