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Help hooking up thermostat Charles 08-03-2007
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Posted by Noon-Air on August 4, 2007, 11:06 pm

>
>
>> I feel sorry for your customers.
>
>
> Why, they receive top quality service from a highly competent HVAC
> technician.
>
> I guess you just don't understand the benefits of knowing your problem
> will
> be fixed correctly the first time.

Thats too easy and makes too much sense. The only problem is the OP might
have t use a wrecking bar to pry open his wallet.



Posted by Mo Hoaner on August 5, 2007, 11:56 am

> Noon-Air wrote:
> Wow, you guys need to get a grip. You don't have to answer questions
> if you don't want, but "free advice" is a large part of what the
> internet is about.

Where did you get that idea? The Internet is about - and always has been
about - connectivity between computers. That's all. There happens to be
commercial and other entities - like Google - that have cataloged the
publicly available content of some of those computers. You are now on
Usenet - a bunch of computers tied together containing "newsgroups"
exchanging information over the Internet. You must pick the correct group to
pose a question. You picked the wrong one. This was explained previously.
You decided to keep coming back for more. The correct place to ask the
questions you wanted answered is wherever you purchased the heater and
thermostat from. You should feel lucky. It's not that cold in where you
live.... yet.

> I help people fix their cars, fix their computers,
> solve software problems, and on and on. I've also gotten help from
> tons of friendly people when I ask questions about all kinds of things.
> Nobody ever tells me to go pay a local computer shop $90/hour to fix a
> simple problem when two sentences of text could solve my whole problem.

The thing is, that it's actually pretty hard to injure anyone else no matter
how clueless you might be when working on computers. Cars, on the other
hand... Well maybe you shouldn't play with them either. It's amazing how
much damage you can do to a structure, and how easy it is to injure people
with errors when working on heating equipment.

You want two sentences that WILL solve your whole problem?

Leave it alone. Call a pro.

> I feel sorry for your customers.

Why? They are not pests asking stupid questions (and yes, yours are stupid!)
on the Internet.



Posted by on August 5, 2007, 12:13 pm

> It's amazing how
>much damage you can do to a structure, and how easy it is to injure people
>with errors when working on heating equipment.

Case in point, working on a 20 plus year old gaffers and statler
package unit on the roof last winter. Homeowner says heat will not
come on. Take cover off and jump wires, get careless and am looking in
the box to see if ignitor is sparking. Hear ignitor sparking and start
smelling gas, realize this is not good, reach for disconnect, TOO
LATE!!!! BOOM!!! Felt concusion so strong that my head and chest
pressed in, eyebrows and mustache singed completely off, face looks
like I have a permanent sunburn. Saw a ball of fire like you would not
believe. Homeowner comes running out yelling if i am ok, I know
someone is talking to me but that's all I know because my ears are
ringing so loud. When I was in tech school I laughed at someone who
did this very thing on a split system. Karma is a bitch. Moral of the
story; you only have to get careless once, if you're not a trained
proffessional that once will come a lot sooner than you think.

Posted by Zephyr on August 5, 2007, 9:21 pm
Jesus that brings back some memories.

I was teaching a newbie one afternoon on a rooftop unit. If I told him
once, I probably told him 50 times, not to peer into the burner vestibule
when the valve is opening - at least until she's lit.

Sure enough - gasitoesis

Zyp

<ICANFIXANYTHING> wrote in message
>
>> It's amazing how
>>much damage you can do to a structure, and how easy it is to injure people
>>with errors when working on heating equipment.
>
> Case in point, working on a 20 plus year old gaffers and statler
> package unit on the roof last winter. Homeowner says heat will not
> come on. Take cover off and jump wires, get careless and am looking in
> the box to see if ignitor is sparking. Hear ignitor sparking and start
> smelling gas, realize this is not good, reach for disconnect, TOO
> LATE!!!! BOOM!!! Felt concusion so strong that my head and chest
> pressed in, eyebrows and mustache singed completely off, face looks
> like I have a permanent sunburn. Saw a ball of fire like you would not
> believe. Homeowner comes running out yelling if i am ok, I know
> someone is talking to me but that's all I know because my ears are
> ringing so loud. When I was in tech school I laughed at someone who
> did this very thing on a split system. Karma is a bitch. Moral of the
> story; you only have to get careless once, if you're not a trained
> proffessional that once will come a lot sooner than you think.



Posted by daytona° on August 5, 2007, 6:38 pm
For the Yellow wire....Y else


> .p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com wrote:
>
>>
>> > .p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com wrote:
>> >
>> wrote: >>
>> >> > Charles wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> I have a Reznor garage heater that I need to hook up a
>> thermostat >> to. >> I got a heat-only Honeywell thermostat which
>> has connections >> for R,W, >> and Y. The heater has R,G,W1 and W2.
>> How do I hhok it >> up, or do I >> need a fancier thermostat? All
>> the manual says is to >> use a 24V >> thermostat, which this is.
>> Thanks. >> >
>> >> > Here's what I figured out from other sources and experimentation.
>> >> > The simple thermostat I bought simply connects R to W when the
>> temp >> > is below setting and R to Y otherwise. The W2 connection
>> on my >> > heater is not connected to anything, it's there for an
>> optional two >> > stage setup that I didn't buy.
>> >> >
>> >> > On the heater, connect R to W1 to make heat, connect R to G to
>> turn >> > on the fan with no heat.
>> >> >
>> >> > I don't care about the fan without heat option right now, so I
>> >> > connect R thermostat to R heater and W thermostat to W1 heater
>> and >> > leave everything else no-connect. Works fine.
>> >>
>> >> Gee, Wally ......
>> >
>> > I can see this newsgroup is full of friendly helpful people.
>>
>> What you should see is a group of people fucking well sick of
>> people asking 'how do I hook up my thermostat' here, when, if they're
>> that fucking clueless, and too fucking lazy to Google it for the other
>> 10,000 times it's been asked here and elsewhere, they could AT LEAST
>> figure out to post in alt.home.repair, not here.
>
> If you're so sick of it, then why are you still typing? And why did
> you bother to answer in the first place, with the wrong answer (I
> bought a heat only thermostat)?
>
> I did Google for a while. Nowhere could I find an explanation of why a
> heat-only thermostat would have a Y connection.
>
> --
>



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