Bryant tstatbbbhp01 with honeywell rth7500
All right, I have searched through these forums and tried to piece an answer to my dilemma from various different responses, but am still not having any luck getting this to work. Here's my situation. I have a Bryant heat pump with emergency heat (model 663CJ036-F) that I want to replace my Bryant tstat with a Honeywell programmable tstat. The current config to my Bryant tstat is
W - White
O - Orange
G - Green
R - Red
C - Blue
Y - Yellow
On my new Honeywell tstat, I connected things as follows:
C - Blue
G - Green
Y - Yellow
O/B - Orange
Red - R with jumper to RC
White - Aux with jumper to E (emergency)
Now, for section 170 of the setup, I chose setting 2, since I have a heat pump without backup or aux heat (yes, I know, I connected White to aux, but it's because I didn't know where else it would go). (I've even tried taking the White wire straight to E without a jumper to Aux, but didn't have any luck with that either - more on this later). Anyway, in the program setup, I'm never presented with the option of setting 270 (emergency heat Cycle rate), which I'm guessing is because I've got a wire out of place.
Even with the setup I have above, I can still program everything and the heat will kick on when the temp reaches my programmed level. However, when the heat does kick on, it blows cold air and never really reaches the temperature I set to make it turn back off. As a matter of fact, the first night I used it, the temperature dropped to 55 and never came back up to the programmed 63. I even switched over to AC to make sure that when that kicked on, it wasn't blowing hot air, indicating I switched a wire somewhere, which it didn't (it blew cold air as well). Whenever I place my Bryant tstat back on, the heat and air work as normal. Now, here are my questions:
1. Can anyone see anything out of the ordinary in how I wired the system?
2. I'm guessing that the cold air coming out when the heater kicks on is because the fan also kicks on (there is only an "Auto" and "On" setting). I disconnected the Green wire, thinking that this was for the blower, but the air was still cold when the heat was on. Is the green wire the correct one to disconnect?
3. Even though I have emergency heat and can have it kick on with my old Bryant tstat, I can't get that option on my new one. Is that a limitation of this Honeywell tstat even though emergency heat (E) is an option?
4. Is there a better model out there that anyone would recommend I buy if this Honeywell I have turns out to be a bust?
Thanks for any and all recommendations/hints/information.