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how to tell if my heat pump is multi-stage or not? courtneyburge 06-09-2007
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Posted by r.bartlett on June 10, 2007, 4:55 am
Have you aked the manufacturer??

Cheers

Richard



Posted by Noon-Air on June 10, 2007, 8:23 am

> Whoa, chill out HVAC-man.
>
> You're right I can't tell you if I have back-up heat. THAT WAS MY
> QUESTION.
>
> You're right you can't *see* it from here. But I can. So, what would
> I look for??? [Never mind, please don't answer. Clearly, one must go
> through a rigorous HVAC training regimen and learn the secret
> handshake before such knowledge can be conferred.]
>
> I already have the correct thermostat for "my system". The thermostat
> works for many systems--it is a Honeywell RTH7000 series. I just
> don't know which setting I need to put it on.
>
> Sorry I asked.

It has nothing to do with a "secret handshake" or any other such bullshit.
Nobody can tell you what setting to put it on without knowing what the
back-up heat is. Is it gas?? is it electric?? Does it even *HAVE* any
back-up heat?? You have only given us HALF of the needed information to give
you what you want. Get it???





Posted by on June 10, 2007, 9:06 am
wrote:

>
>> Whoa, chill out HVAC-man.
>>
>> You're right I can't tell you if I have back-up heat. THAT WAS MY
>> QUESTION.

        NO IT WASN'T. SO STOP YELLING, IT MAKES YOU LOOK STUPID.

>>
>> You're right you can't *see* it from here. But I can. So, what would
>> I look for??? [Never mind, please don't answer. Clearly, one must go
>> through a rigorous HVAC training regimen and learn the secret
>> handshake before such knowledge can be conferred.]
>>
>> I already have the correct thermostat for "my system". The thermostat
>> works for many systems--it is a Honeywell RTH7000 series. I just
>> don't know which setting I need to put it on.

        Guess what ? 'Works for many other sytems' does not equal 'is
the right stat for YOUR system'. That is one of the reasons there are
many different stats.


>>
>> Sorry I asked.
>
>It has nothing to do with a "secret handshake" or any other such bullshit.
>Nobody can tell you what setting to put it on without knowing what the
>back-up heat is. Is it gas?? is it electric?? Does it even *HAVE* any
>back-up heat?? You have only given us HALF of the needed information to give
>you what you want. Get it???
>
>
>

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Posted by courtneyburge on June 10, 2007, 5:08 pm
> Nobody can tell you what setting to put it on without knowing what the
back-up heat is. Is it gas?? is it electric??

Um yeah. If that was important to know, you could have asked, "Well,
is it gas or electric?" I'm not the "highly-trained HVAC
professional" here.

Anyways, thanks to a kind and cordial email from a group member--who
asked about the wires to the thermostat--I was able to google the
wires that I had and saw that:

You have a multi-stage heat pump if:
3. Your old thermostat has wires going to the letters W2, X, or E.

See, wasn't that simple? I didn't know the wires would tell me. So
any one of you jacknuts could have suggested looking at the wires.

I'm not coming back, so you can hold your vitriol.


Posted by Noon-Air on June 10, 2007, 5:26 pm

>> Nobody can tell you what setting to put it on without knowing what the
> back-up heat is. Is it gas?? is it electric??
>
> Um yeah. If that was important to know, you could have asked, "Well,
> is it gas or electric?" I'm not the "highly-trained HVAC
> professional" here.
>
> Anyways, thanks to a kind and cordial email from a group member--who
> asked about the wires to the thermostat--I was able to google the
> wires that I had and saw that:
>
> You have a multi-stage heat pump if:
> 3. Your old thermostat has wires going to the letters W2, X, or E.
>
> See, wasn't that simple? I didn't know the wires would tell me. So
> any one of you jacknuts could have suggested looking at the wires.
>
> I'm not coming back, so you can hold your vitriol.

I guess we were supposed to be able to *SEE* the wires through the computer
monitor?? I guess the next questions are either going to be either "I put a
new thermostat on and nothing works anymore, how do I turn it back on again.
Is there a reset??" OR, "I just put a new thermostat on my heat pump, now
its blowing hot air, does it need some more FREON??"






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