Gas and Oil Home Heating Furnaces - run time adjustments

the old mercury type thermostats have run time adjustments to increase or decrease cycle frequency. Does anyone know if the new fangled electronic digital display thermostats have any such adjustment? mine starts and stops with one degree increments. what is standard? does anyone know?

The old mercury stats had a heat anticipator adjustment to set. (This is a heating only feature used to tune the furnace and stat so the room temperature would not OVERshoot or UNDERshoot the set temperature. The Electronic stats do not have a heat anticipator (because the mass of the temperature sensor is very small and the stat senses the air temperature accurately and quickly.

There is another aspect of the stat operation that you may have in mind. This is what we call the "differential" which is the difference between the turn-on and turn-off temperatures. The mechanical stats tended to have 2 to 4 degree differential. The electronics usually have 1 to 1.5 degree in differential (default). Read the INSTRUCTIONS. Many of them have a way to set the differential to 2 or 3 degrees.

The Robertshaw electronic thermostats that we've been using as replacements adjust from .5 to 1.5 degree differential. So far I've had no call to change one from the factory 1 degree setting. I'm guessing that this is a pretty typical spread for the type.