New thermostat and fan control

Fleetwood

We recently acquired a 27 year old vacation home with an old but functional oil fired forced air furnace.  The thermostat is an old round Honeywell two-wire.  In this climate, the main floor can be comfortable in cool weather, but the basement room is too cool.  A heating contractor added some needed cold air return ducts in the basement and that improved things when the furnace is running.  But - there are many times when I'd like to be able to run just the furnace fan to circulate air in the house without the furnace burner running.  I'll likely hire someone to do the necessary work, but want to understand all the issues first, so here are my questions:



Obviously I have to run a new thermostat cable and want to use a modern electronic thermostat that allows me, among other things, to turn on the furnace fan at will or have it come on every now and then in "circulate mode".  With the existing thermostat, the fan is obviously controlled at the furnace end, probably by some sort of temperature sensor that detects the burner has heated up.  With the new thermostat, does the thermostat itself completely control the fan operation, and if so, is there typically some way to set the time lapse before the thermostat calls for heat and when it turns the fan on? 



Can I really expect the installer to calibrate that delay properly if that's the way the thermostat works?  Or, is there some typical fixed delay time that would be used for an oil burner and forced air installation?



On the terminal strip in the furnace, the "G" terminal (which appears to be for fan control) has no connection at present and the wiring diagram is insufficient to know why (relays are shows as outline boxes only, no contacts are shown).  To accomplish what I need, is it as straightforward as connecting this G terminal to the proper fan control terminal on the thermostat?

Empire_2

very astute in your observations....

Give yourself an at-a boy.  To answer your Q: "Invensys" makes a t-stat that lets you decide when you want to have the fan cycle to basically mix the air based on a 1 hour interval.  Since I have this stat on my wall and have not seen anything that does the same.  I have the fan switch in auto, but since I to wish to move air at what ever intervals, I have in come on for 10 min every hour and off for 50 min.  Both settings are adjustable and independent of any fan "on/auto positions.  As far as your fan control, your older furnace most likely does not have a fan relay.  One can be added via "fan center control.  The"G" terminal is just that a terminal.  Unless there is a relay connected to it, it does nothing.  Hope this helped a bit.  Invensys.com



Peace;



Mike T.