Please help - wiring thermostat...

jenL

Hi,
my thermostat (Totaline model # P374-1100) just stopped working. the digital screen is dead and no red light. It was working just fine the day before so i'm guessing the motherboard is fried. i am trying to change it but all the ones at home depot use batteries and mine is fully hardwired. can i just replace it with the new ones even though i will have extra wires? i'm including a picture of how it is wired now (i haven't done anything to it yet)... thanks! Jen

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Doc Holliday

Can you please confirm the letter at each terminal that each color wire is connected to? It's very hard to see.

wire color - letter

Green-G
Red-R
Brown-C

so on and so forth. You have a heat pump? You have an electrical testing meter?

Tator1076

That is hook on common that is t-stat is wire hot all times. That is t-stat may not be the problem. It is a short in 24 volts and the 3 amp fuse is blown.

Tator1076

You need find the short. You need look at low voltage wiring from t stat inside the unit and outside. Ps on the new t stat were it says do not use spot. That is for the common wire.

Doc Holliday

That's why I asked if she had a meter. Me thinks fuse or transformer went bye bye. Stat is okay.

jkv

Jen you can put a new t-stat on but I would check the fuse inside the furnace there should be a 3 A fuse comeing out of the transformer. The r wire in your t-stat is the hot or power to the t-stat the batteries in the one you are looking at controls the LED at the t-stat. Hey doc what is with (me thinks) To much freon?

Doc Holliday

Judging by your inability to spell the very simplest of words in the English language, printed like a dyslexic deaf dumb and blind retarded first grader I'd have to assume that, yes. But even then, freon would be the least of your worries, me thinks.

COMING wOulD bE CoRrEcT. Da.

Doc Holliday

oOps, i dUhn fOrgOt A eMotIcOn tO eNsUrEs dAt yOus nOEs dAt i wUz dUh gOkIng.

Doc Holliday

lucky I didn't use, "bye bye bye bye bye bye."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEGHCSDuggw

jkv

Good one Doc. Did you get that heat pump up & running?

Doc Holliday

On my way to Century (Rheem Ruud distributor) now but yes. According to Century Tech Support, these two brands are the only ones that energize on heat with the use of B. Also said they were the only ones who had it right. The guys at American Standard (Aces) even agreed yesterday when I was there picking up an ignitor and browsing for a compatible stat for the Ruud.
All else use O energized on cool and right now I have O from the old Carrier Comfortmaker stat (no B present. no switch either) hooked to the B from the defrost board on the Ruud heat pump so the calling status is backwards.

There's an entire thread on it.

I'll be taking some more pictures to add to my life long portfolio , posting in a few.

Adios amigos.