Help! THe heat won't turn off

jeremy_6

Help! I cant get the heat to turn off on my Goodman heat pump. I have a Hunter thermostat. Even when the light on the thermostat (indicating the heat is on) turns off the heat still comes out. It won't turn off until the A/C kicks on. I think I have it wired wrong.
A repair man just told me to move the brown wire on the thermostst from B to E, and remove the jumper I had from from E to W2. I went to do the same on the heat pump but there were no internal wires hooked up to the E terminal, so I left the brown wire on W1; connected to an internal brown wire. This made the emergency heat kick on, however it did turn off. The emergency heat should not have turned on... How is this supposed to be wired?
Currently...

The thermostat looks like:
G - Green
C - Blue
L - ----
O - Orange
W2 - White
B - ----
E - Brown
R - Red
Y1 - Yellow

The heat pump looks like:

G - Green
C - Blue
O - Orange
W2 - White
E - ---- (no internal wires conected to this terminal)
W1 - Brown
R - Red
Y - Yellow

Any Ideas?

Bill Nye_2

Jeremy

Is this a new problem? Has it ever worked correctly ? Has something changed recently?

Colors mean nothing if the wires are not conected correctly. Green is supposed to be fan, Red is normally 24volt power from the transformer, Yellow is usually cooling, W1 is white and first stage heat, W2 second stage heat. Brown or black , common.

Could be a shorted wire or stuck contactor, what changed to make this happen?

jeremy_6

I installed the heatpump in the summer. never needed the heat before now...

[Deleted User]

heat pump

The wires on the t'stat do not go diectly to the heat pump. They are most likely spliced together at the air handler. Hopefully, the color codes match. the "B" is usually, the common side of the transformer. By moving that wire to the "E",terminal [ controls the emergancy heat], you may energized the emergancy heat. Switch it back to the origanal way. Let us know what happens. Shut the power off first, don't want to blow the fuse on anight like this

jeremy_6

I put it back the way it was. the brown wire back to B and the jumper from E to W2. It works normal now but the stage 1 heat still does not quit even when the thermostat turns off...