[croz124]

I am trying to replace my old thermostat which is a Janitrol HPT 18-60 which is configured as follows

Y-Yellow
G-Gree
R-Red
O-Orange
W2- White
E-Black
C-Blue

The new thermostat is a Hunter, Model 44360 and states to label your wires as follows

RH - RH, R, VR or 4 (24 volt)
RC - RC, VC (24 volt cool)
G - G or F (fan)
Y/O - Y, C, or M (air conditioning compressor) or O (reversing valve operating in cool mode)
W/B - W or H (Heating) or B (Reversing Valve operating in Heat mode)
Y1 - (Heat pump compressor) single statge heat pumps ONLY
And DO NOT CONNECT A "COMMON" WIRE

It also states that if you are using a 5 wire installation, to remove the jumper between RH and RC.

Well I have a 7 wires! I think that

RH-Red
G-Green
Y/O - Yellow
W/B - White

But that leaves me with RC and Y1 and a blue, black and orange wires and one of them must be a common and not connected at all.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[hvac1000]

You need a heat pump thermostat. The one you have will not work.Take the junk hunter back and get a Honeywell heat pump stat.

[croz124]

So I was told that Hunter is junk in the last 5 minutes and packaged it back up after the first time I was told that it was junk and wouldn't work. So where do you get the other?

[ballengerb1]

If you visit the Hunter website they show all their stats. I think hvac is saying that particular brand is not one of the better brands. You could just change your question a bit and ask him or other for their advice on best brands to buy, he is saying Honeywell and that is what I've used for years.

[hvac1000]

Honeywell is available at Home Depot and Lowe's I believe. If necessary call around.

You will be much better off and they do have a 1-800 number form free technical service for hook up.