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    Oct 31, 2007, 07:59 PM
    Forgot to label the wires before taking out curent thermostat
    My current White Rodgers thermostat stopped working.I bought new Honeywell RTH6300B thermostat but forgot to label the current wire connection. Can anyone guide me now on choosing which color wire should be connected to which thermostat terminals.

    I have 4 wires available to be connected to thermostat
    Red
    Blue
    Green
    White

    Thanks,
    Pankaj
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    Nov 1, 2007, 07:45 AM
    They should connect to the corresponding letters except for the blue and you have no yellow, so we can guess they substituted blue for yellow. Good luck , Mike
    White to "W"
    Red to "R"
    Green to "G"
    Yellow to "Y"
    A jumper between "RH" and "RC" with the red wire.
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