I live with my dad right now and we don't like the same temperature. I get cold at night. I use an electric portable house heater in my bedroom. It does have a thermostat built into it, but it is worthless. They're always worthless because they build them into the heaters so instead of going by the temperature in the room they go by the temperature right there at the heater. I don't know why they would have the thermostats so close to the heat source, it seems stupid to me, but they do. So if the heater has been running the heating element will effect the thermostats reading and give a false reading since the thermostat is right there by the heating element.
So I'm wondering how difficult it would be too add a standard home thermostat to my portable heater so that I can have an external thermostat that I can hang on my bedroom wall farther away from the heater. Is this difficult? If not, could someone explain how to do it.
Would it be as simple as taking the heater apart and finding the thermostat and removing it and then taking the wires that went to that and extend the wires and connect it to the new thermostat?
So I'm wondering how difficult it would be too add a standard home thermostat to my portable heater so that I can have an external thermostat that I can hang on my bedroom wall farther away from the heater. Is this difficult? If not, could someone explain how to do it.
Would it be as simple as taking the heater apart and finding the thermostat and removing it and then taking the wires that went to that and extend the wires and connect it to the new thermostat?