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  • Jul 4, 2008, 06:21 AM
    zanyzane
    Wiring New Honeywell RTH7400 Thermostat?
    Okay I have a mercury thermo that I was trying to replace with a digital Honeywell thermo. I have a Rheem furnace & outside A/C unit. I'm assuming this is a "conventional system"?

    The wires don't match up according to the installation manual so this is what I have:

    Original Thermo:

    Terminals were: B (blue wire), X (brown wire), G (green wire), R (red wire), E (white wire and this continued to the W2 terminal), Y (yellow wire).

    Honeywell Thermo: (conventional system diagram)

    I'm putting the link to the manual HERE and info is on pg 10 & 11.

    What it boils down to I have all the wires connected except the B (blue wire) and E (white wire and this continued to the W2 terminal). The diagram shows C terminal accepting C or C1 or X or B wires. I currently have my X (brown wire) there. But I have no clue as to where I should put the other 2 wires.

    Well I hope I explained it well enough, and any help is appriciated.

    Thanks,

    Zane

    EDITED
    how my old one was connected:

    Terminal B - Blue wire
    Terminal X - Brown wire
    Terminal G - Green wire
    Terminal R - Red wire
    Terminal E - White wire (jumpered to W2)
    Terminal Y - Yellow wire

    I put the above to the Honeywell Tstat as follows:

    B to Terminal O/B
    X to Terminal C
    G to Terminal G
    R to Terminal R
    E to Terminal Y2/E with jumper to Aux/W2
    Y to Terminal Y

    Now I can make both the heat and AC work by changing the 0170 setup screen to different choices. But I can't find the correct choice to get both heat & AC to work without changing the setting. So either I have it wired wrong or something.
  • Jul 4, 2008, 03:36 PM
    wmproop
    For assistance with your Honeywell product, please visit Honeywell |Your Home Expert | Thermostats, Air Cleaners, Humidifiers, Ventilation Sytems, CO Monitoring and Security Systems. - Honeywell Your Home Expert or call Honeywell Customer Care toll free at 1-800-468-1502.
  • Jul 5, 2008, 04:49 AM
    zanyzane
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by wmproop
    For assistance with your Honeywell product, please visit Honeywell |Your Home Expert | Thermostats, Air Cleaners, Humidifiers, Ventilation Sytems, CO Monitoring and Security Systems. - Honeywell Your Home Expert or call Honeywell Customer Care toll free at 1-800-468-1502.

    Well believe it or not I've already been to the Honeywell site, that's where I got the link to the manual which by the way is the same thing I have in my hands to work with. I also called their 1-800 number. So as a last resort I go on the web and spent 3 hours trying to find other problems like mine, which I did in fact find another post from back in Nov of 2007. The problem was, no one replyed to his post. So I decided to register and post myself. Thanks for the help.

    EDITED

    After some more reading I found another post that gave a hint about the installation manual of the Rheem unit. I was able to determine it was a 2 stage Heat pump. So then I went to the setup screen function 170 and put in #7 (Multi-stage Heat Pump: Heat pump with backup or auxiliary heating)
    After that at function 190 I selected 1 for the Heating Changeover valve, because I had connected a wire labeled "B" to the O/B terminal.

    So I had it wired correctly, I just was unsure of the system type. I had tried setting 7 before but it blew out hot air in the cooling setting. But then again I think function 190 was set to 0.

    Thanks for the help... perhaps not directly, but I did read a lot of "how to's and posts on this site.

    Zane

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