Yosemite Vacation Home Reduces Energy Costs Using Venstar Two-Wire Kit, Skyport Cloud And Colortouch Thermostats
Yosemite Vacation Home Reduces Energy Costs Using Venstar Two-Wire Kit, Skyport Cloud And Colortouch Thermostats
2 PagesVenstar Case Study: Yosemite National Park Vacation Home On June 30, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Grant Act, setting aside the Yosemite National Park for enjoyment by future generations. In the 1940s, many vacation homes were built in this beautiful national park. Flash forward to the 21st century, and the homeowners of the Yosemite vacation homes have run into a problem of how to remotely control and monitor their existing millivolt gas and electric baseboard heaters to control energy usage and costs. When the old thermostats were originally installed, the contractors ran just two low- voltage wires inside the wall from the thermostat to the furnace on the other side of the room. Because these homes only have two wires in the wall, homeowners had few op
