DIY
Jun 16, 2007, 08:18 PM
I am new to this site as of today.
A contractor friend of mine and I just took out a 25-yr-old fuel oil furnace and 20-yr-old AC unit (central air) and replaced them with the following: Furnace-Maytag 95+ 2-stage gas furnace, and Maytag 16 Seer 2-stage R-410A AC unit. He is not certified to do electrical work. I've done most of my own wiring over the years but have never messed with this type of situation before. I've hard-wired in the furnace, and tomorrow plan on hard-wiring in the AC unit, complete with whip and shut-off box to be mounted on outside of house, as well as direct wiring the rest of the way into the breaker box.
I have the following concerns. The old thermostat, which was a programmable digital, is being replaced with a Honeywell 8000 series, which is also a programmable digital. The old thermostat wiring consists of a red, a white, a green, a yellow, and a blue. Being this is a two-stage LP gas furnace, I am not sure how to run the thermostat wires. Will I need to get a 7-wire thermostat wire? Is such a beast even made? Or can I simply continue to use the current 5-wire thermostat wire? If the latter, how do I go about making the appropriate connections?
On the AC unit, there are four 24V wires that are colored/labeled as follows: black = C, red = R, yellow = Y1, and blue = Y2. My understanding is that I only have to run the low-voltage AC wires to the terminal bar on the furnace, and not to the thermostat. How do I accomplish that task? Do I need only a two-wire cable, which is what the old AC had, or do I have to go with another 5-wire cable? What runs to what?
Thanks so much in advance for any advice.
A contractor friend of mine and I just took out a 25-yr-old fuel oil furnace and 20-yr-old AC unit (central air) and replaced them with the following: Furnace-Maytag 95+ 2-stage gas furnace, and Maytag 16 Seer 2-stage R-410A AC unit. He is not certified to do electrical work. I've done most of my own wiring over the years but have never messed with this type of situation before. I've hard-wired in the furnace, and tomorrow plan on hard-wiring in the AC unit, complete with whip and shut-off box to be mounted on outside of house, as well as direct wiring the rest of the way into the breaker box.
I have the following concerns. The old thermostat, which was a programmable digital, is being replaced with a Honeywell 8000 series, which is also a programmable digital. The old thermostat wiring consists of a red, a white, a green, a yellow, and a blue. Being this is a two-stage LP gas furnace, I am not sure how to run the thermostat wires. Will I need to get a 7-wire thermostat wire? Is such a beast even made? Or can I simply continue to use the current 5-wire thermostat wire? If the latter, how do I go about making the appropriate connections?
On the AC unit, there are four 24V wires that are colored/labeled as follows: black = C, red = R, yellow = Y1, and blue = Y2. My understanding is that I only have to run the low-voltage AC wires to the terminal bar on the furnace, and not to the thermostat. How do I accomplish that task? Do I need only a two-wire cable, which is what the old AC had, or do I have to go with another 5-wire cable? What runs to what?
Thanks so much in advance for any advice.