Re: Thermostat
There are home thermostats that will work. As DL says, you do need one that operates from 12V but very few if any home thermostats have 120V power to them. If your present one is one of the old mechanical type that unwind a metal strip when they warm up and rewind when cooling, those are still available and any of them will work. Look to see how many leads there are to the present thermostat. If there are only two, then you need one of the mechanical thermostats as the two leads are the control leads. If you have one of the newer, solid state thermostats, then it becomes more complicated as you will have leads for 12V power, ground and at least one signal line. In this case you need to do some research, but there are some that do work.