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Thermostat wiring

samhain7
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First off, thanks to Soundguy. He has provided lots of useful advice!

Second, sorry for asking someone to hold my hand on this, but I have heard incorrect furnace wiring can be a costly error!

I have my new thermostat and want to hook it up, but I cannot make heads or tails of the instructions. I even hired a furnace guy to come out and even he said he could not figure it out.

WHat I basically need, is if someone knows, to say, put the red wire in port XX. Put the blue wire in port XX...etc.
So here are my pictures.

Old thermostat manual:

New thermostat manual

Wires coming out of the wall:

Old thermostat wiring:

New thermostat wiring:

Any help would be greatly appreciated...
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samhain7
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Update:

Did a little more research and hooked it up as Old-Biscuit suggested.
Works GREAT!!! Hopefully this thread can help out others who are doing the same mod.

Thanks Soundguy and Old-Biscuit!
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2016 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins, E2 WD w/sway
2015 Starcraft Autumn Ridge 289BHS

SoundGuy
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downtheroad wrote:
Just match the colors from old stat to new one...white to W, Blue to B, Yellow to Y, dtc.


Having swapped out thermostats in several trailers myself, having had one friend who managed to fry his furnace circuit board, and knowing of two others who couldn't get the system to work at all by simply matching wire colour codes I would never simply connect wires based on colour code alone ... you want to KNOW beforehand just where each wire goes and what it's connected to at the other end. Don't take the time to figure it out beforehand and one can in an instant be dealing with unintended yet costly repairs. :M
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samhain7
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Thanks oldbiscuit. EXACTLY what I was looking for. I'll hook it up tomorrow and let you know.
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2015 Starcraft Autumn Ridge 289BHS

Old-Biscuit
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Blue 12V - (not used...wire cap it)
Red 12V + (connect to Rc and then connect jumper from Rc to R)
Yellow (connect to Y....compressor)
White (connect to W----furnace)


NOW you have to make decision on the Green & Grey wiring
Green is a/c fan high speed and Grey is a/c fan low speed
You would have to install a mini switch to be able to switch between hgh or low
OR just wire one of them to the 'G' terminal

I used just the High (no switch) because a/c should use high fan (low fan with a/c can cause a/c unit to freeze due to low air flow)
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downtheroad
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Just match the colors from old stat to new one...white to W, Blue to B, Yellow to Y, dtc.

Also I think you need to jump Rh to Rc - your Red from the wall goes to that.

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darsben
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no pictures well just one of the back of the thermostat
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samhain7
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Removed..figured out the issues with the pictures
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2016 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins, E2 WD w/sway
2015 Starcraft Autumn Ridge 289BHS