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This is a case of a little knowledge/skill may be worse than none.
The old one was losing it's programming, and because it's in our second home, I thought it would be good to be able to set the temp several hours before our arrival. So I tore right into it, noticing that the red wire went to the R terminal, the white one went to W, the green one, to G, etc. What could go wrong? Job done, wires to the corresponding terminals in the shiny new 'Sensi' thermostat screw it to the wall, smash the excess wires neatly behind it, put the cover play onto the base, and Voila! Silence. No fan, no cool, NOTHING.
OK, retrace steps. Open the booklet (finally) Oh, it says to turn off the power. Aw, heck, I'm a manly man and it's just 24 volts. What could go wrong? Oh, the booklet says to take a picture of the wire configuration in the lot unit. Did I? Well, it said it was 'optional'. Did I mention it's forecast to be 100? So I call an HVAC guy and he can be here in 4 hours (or so) What could go wrong? OK, here in the booklet is a phone number for support. I call. After a short wait, a guy answers. Midwestern accent. So we go through all the wiring (again) and still nothing. He gives up and says there is a furnace problem. No sweat, the HVAC guy is coming.
I walk the dog, help the neighbors, fix lunch, twiddle my thumbs, spend time on TUG. Did I mention the acrid, hot electrical smell? Yup. The furnace guy shows up (2 hours later than he said) and tells me I fried a transformer. He fixes it, installed a fuse to keep that from happening again, the cool air is flowing, all is well.
But the thermostat is STILL not Wi-Fi. So back to that support phone number. This time it's a South Asian accent. So I'm both talking on my Android phone AND fiddling with the programming of the thermostat, remembering the wi-fi system password, and more stuff than I usually need to at one time. It took a couple of re-do's, but finally, everything works.
Boy am I thirsty!
Jim
The old one was losing it's programming, and because it's in our second home, I thought it would be good to be able to set the temp several hours before our arrival. So I tore right into it, noticing that the red wire went to the R terminal, the white one went to W, the green one, to G, etc. What could go wrong? Job done, wires to the corresponding terminals in the shiny new 'Sensi' thermostat screw it to the wall, smash the excess wires neatly behind it, put the cover play onto the base, and Voila! Silence. No fan, no cool, NOTHING.
OK, retrace steps. Open the booklet (finally) Oh, it says to turn off the power. Aw, heck, I'm a manly man and it's just 24 volts. What could go wrong? Oh, the booklet says to take a picture of the wire configuration in the lot unit. Did I? Well, it said it was 'optional'. Did I mention it's forecast to be 100? So I call an HVAC guy and he can be here in 4 hours (or so) What could go wrong? OK, here in the booklet is a phone number for support. I call. After a short wait, a guy answers. Midwestern accent. So we go through all the wiring (again) and still nothing. He gives up and says there is a furnace problem. No sweat, the HVAC guy is coming.
I walk the dog, help the neighbors, fix lunch, twiddle my thumbs, spend time on TUG. Did I mention the acrid, hot electrical smell? Yup. The furnace guy shows up (2 hours later than he said) and tells me I fried a transformer. He fixes it, installed a fuse to keep that from happening again, the cool air is flowing, all is well.
But the thermostat is STILL not Wi-Fi. So back to that support phone number. This time it's a South Asian accent. So I'm both talking on my Android phone AND fiddling with the programming of the thermostat, remembering the wi-fi system password, and more stuff than I usually need to at one time. It took a couple of re-do's, but finally, everything works.
Boy am I thirsty!
Jim