glad I watched this Ben, I just had this exact one installed in my house. I know the guy ripped me off price wise after looking up the price but I am hoping this thermostat works out ok. The last bit of advice/comment was really good to know. Cheers
Display showed low batt ...replaced battery now I have no Display....however fan goes on when I turn on manual fan switch on thermostat...how will my furnace work if there is no display noting the temperature the furnace is to maintain?
Not sure if you are still reading the comments and answering questions but here’s mine: We have a one hour heating and air conditioning digital thermostat that was put in probably about 10 years ago. It was here when we moved in. But here is my issue….It was working just fine hardwired to our electrical but then I stupidly put batteries in not realizing that wasn’t even needed and ever since then the thermostat will not operate unless we have batteries in it. QUESTION: How do we reverse this annoying situation and get it back to working without batteries? There is no help or information in the owners manual. HELP!! 😅
Hey Ben question for you. If the red wire provides power to the thermostat, and common is the neutral wire. How is it that the common wire provides 24v to the thermostat? I thought the job of the neutral was to return the current back to it's source. How is it providing power in this scenario? Thanks!
The red wire has the 24v on it and the common wire is the "neutral" that allows that power to be used by the thermostat. Then the thermostat takes that power from the red wire and applies it to the G, Y, or W to control the HVAC equipment. Hopefully that makes sense!
@@BenjaminSahlstrom alright that makes sense thanks! One other question about the AC unit. To my understanding the AC is 240 volts and doesn't need a neutral because each hot phase completes the circuit. But why does something's in the AC unit use a common (neutral)...i.e the compressor?
@@paulkeenan4309 You can have both, no problem. The only time you need batteries is if you dont have C wire hooked up or you dont want to reprogram your tstat if you have a programmable tstat. If you lose 24 v power to a programmable tstat you will need to reprogram it if batteries are not being used to save the program.
I wish I knew this sooner my thermostat went fluky this week I called a ferret furnace people who installed it turned out the batteries in the thermostat leak battery acid and ruin the thermostat $175 later if I'd known I didn't even need the batteries in there it never would have happened I didn't know there were batteries I'm old and all my life I never had a thermostat with batteries
My thermostat went dead today, so I looked at it, no batteries! Put batteries in, works! So, the question is, what happened? We didn’t have any power outage, maybe it’s an international electric problem.
I'm having the same problem right now. I'm going to try and put batteries to see if it works. I have people working in the house and I'm thinking heavy equipment was what made the a.c. stop working, but I'm not sure.
I love it that you are so young and you know these things... I know nothing of nothing and it kills me...
glad I watched this Ben, I just had this exact one installed in my house. I know the guy ripped me off price wise after looking up the price but I am hoping this thermostat works out ok. The last bit of advice/comment was really good to know. Cheers
Display showed low batt ...replaced battery now I have no Display....however fan goes on when I turn on manual fan switch on thermostat...how will my furnace work if there is no display noting the temperature the furnace is to maintain?
Not sure if you are still reading the comments and answering questions but here’s mine:
We have a one hour heating and air conditioning digital thermostat that was put in probably about 10 years ago. It was here when we moved in. But here is my issue….It was working just fine hardwired to our electrical but then I stupidly put batteries in not realizing that wasn’t even needed and ever since then the thermostat will not operate unless we have batteries in it. QUESTION: How do we reverse this annoying situation and get it back to working without batteries? There is no help or information in the owners manual. HELP!! 😅
Hey Ben question for you. If the red wire provides power to the thermostat, and common is the neutral wire. How is it that the common wire provides 24v to the thermostat? I thought the job of the neutral was to return the current back to it's source. How is it providing power in this scenario? Thanks!
The red wire has the 24v on it and the common wire is the "neutral" that allows that power to be used by the thermostat. Then the thermostat takes that power from the red wire and applies it to the G, Y, or W to control the HVAC equipment. Hopefully that makes sense!
@@BenjaminSahlstrom alright that makes sense thanks! One other question about the AC unit. To my understanding the AC is 240 volts and doesn't need a neutral because each hot phase completes the circuit. But why does something's in the AC unit use a common (neutral)...i.e the compressor?
What is then the Common Voltage then Comin from C or connected to a Nat Gas Hydronic system
The batteries would save settings and scheduling in the event of power loss
So, you can have both, batteries and the C-wire connected too? Or is it one or the other ONLY?
most thermostats support both (i've never met one that didn't).
@@paulkeenan4309 You can have both, no problem. The only time you need batteries is if you dont have C wire hooked up or you dont want to reprogram your tstat if you have a programmable tstat. If you lose 24 v power to a programmable tstat you will need to reprogram it if batteries are not being used to save the program.
True but not using backup batteries causes short cycling
Thanks Ben
Thanks a bunch, great advice.
Great clip
very helpfull
I wish I knew this sooner my thermostat went fluky this week I called a ferret furnace people who installed it turned out the batteries in the thermostat leak battery acid and ruin the thermostat $175 later if I'd known I didn't even need the batteries in there it never would have happened I didn't know there were batteries I'm old and all my life I never had a thermostat with batteries
I dont want to freeze wen my batteries die! Why did my guy put this in? I had a honeywell with no batteries....
My thermostat went dead today, so I looked at it, no batteries! Put batteries in, works! So, the question is, what happened? We didn’t have any power outage, maybe it’s an international electric problem.
I'm having the same problem right now.
I'm going to try and put batteries to see if it works.
I have people working in the house and I'm thinking heavy equipment was what made the a.c. stop working, but I'm not sure.
Well, you could start by checking for power on the 24v red wire!
7d mean on Siemens theronastas
excellent!!!!
Not for beginners. Informative and interesting, but presupposes the listener has a lot of background to connect the unspoken dots.