Looking for help wiring in my new thermostat to an old hvac unit with no circuit board.
I’ve got 4 wires at my current thermostat:
G, Y, W, R and 2 unused wires wrapped around the bundle Blue and Brown. I found these wires feeding to the unit, as pictured. How do I connect the adapter? If you need more pictures let me know. Thanks.
And heres the rest of the pictures on imgur: Imgur: The magic of the Internet
What do the wires at the thermostat end look like?
Can you get a clearer image of the same wires in the air handler/ furnace?
Here are some more Pictures. Its hard to take pictures because the unit is located in a crammed in spot above my pantry. Hope these help. Let me know. Thanks
I think I see the blue wire in this bundle, but it’s very short… do you have an extra wire nut and any wire that you could use to make a jumper so that you could extend it about 6 inches?
I do have an extra wire nut but I don’t have extra wire. I can get some tomorrow. How do I make a jumper? Thanks so much. You have good eyes!
Your C wire nut is here (technically, this is after a safety switch that will disable it if your drain pan ever gets close to overflowing, but that’s fine, just remember that if you ever find the wyze off for no apparent reason after running the A/C for a long time, you probably have a clogged condensate drain)
You simply need to turn off the power to the furnace, then strip back just enough of the blue wire’s insulation to attach your jumper wire and wirenut. Then attach the other end of the jumper to the black/white wire nut from this image. When you hook up your wyze, tell it that your old thermostat has the following wires:
Rc (red wire)
G (green wire)
C (blue wire)
W1 (white wire)
Y1 (yellow wire)
In the future, it would be a good idea to replace the jumper wire with a 3 amp inline fuse, so that if there ever was a short circuit between hot and common, it would just blow the fuse instead of killing the transformer, You can get an inline blade style fuse holder and 3 amp blade fuse at just about any auto parts store.
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Awesome. Thank you for the detailed write up. I appreciate your help, thanks!
Make sure your turn off the power first, or have a spare fuse handy.
Power is off
Good. when you’re setting up your thermostat in the app, in order for it to work properly, you need to tell it that your old thermostat has the following wires as well:
G, Rc, W, Y
Remember this if you ever need to reset the thermostat, because if you don’t and tell it you have a C wire and no G wire, the fan will not work. The C adapter uses special signaling on the Y wire from the thermostat to activate the fan, while using the fan’s old wire (G) as the common power return.
