Thermostatic Controls - help with thermostat selection

Hi folks.

Just purchased a small cabin ( about 1200 ft.²) that has a Toyo stove in the main living area. Without any duct work, the 2 bedrooms stay pretty cold.

There is enough room in the dividing walls to the bedrooms to install duct work and thought about putting a fan that was thermostaticly controlled at the ridge to pull the hot air from the top of the cabin down into the bedrooms. I do not want this to run all the time, but it would be nice if it would kick in at say 80° and kick off at 65°.

Is there a thermostat available that will work in this kind of application? it needs to be 110 V, not low voltage, although I could hook up a transformer pretty easily to an run a whisper quiet 12 V fan. Any suggestion on CFM for the fan?

Suggestions?

Thanks,

Troy in AK.

There are lot of line voltage t-stat, but I'm not able to find any with that large of a temp gap.

Is the temp gap needed?

I would go with a t-stat in the room and set it to what temp you want it at, then the fan will run as needed.

Thanks Jay.

I guess I could just use a normal T-stat, but having a larger differential I think would be a nice feature. Having something with a remote sensor would be nice too, otherwise it's going to necessitate setting up a ladder to set the thing--is this type of feature available? Brand, source please.

Troy

as for line voltage t-stat with remote, I've never seen such thing.

I would just put the t-stat in the bedroom, and set it say 70˚, and if the room gets below that temp the fan can come on and run till it gets above that set point and shut off. I think you can get better comfort with that than what you are thinking of doing.

Sounds fine--I like the suggestion of putting the T-stat in the bedrooms--I had not considered that. I think your ideal will work fine.

Troy