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Nest Learning Thermostat

jeffloby
jeffloby Member Posts: 3
in Thermostats and Controls
I want to install a Nest Learning Thermostat at my daughters house. The system is an all electric Goodman package unit. Attached is a picture of the existing thermostat. On the W/E terminal the white wire is auxiliary and the brown wire is emergency heat per the installer. Can someone let me know how to wire this to the Nest? I'm a little older and it's been a while since I've hooked a Nest up. Thanks is advance.



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  • ChrisJ
    ChrisJ Member Posts: 16,260
    To me it looks like you literally match everything that's on there except run white to W and brown to W2?

    You'll need to see what Nest says about the R wire. I'm sure you can hook it to one of the R terminals, but I don't know if they want it only to RC or only to RH.

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  • Big Ed_4
    Big Ed_4 Member Posts: 3,004
    Thinking RC.....

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  • HVACNUT
    HVACNUT Member Posts: 6,282
    edited April 17
    W1 is not used with a heat pump. Because you're going to tell the Nest it's a Heat Pump, the heat will be powered by energizing Y, not W1.
    There's no separate "Emergency Heat" terminal, so both White and Brown will land on W2/Aux. 
    The splice probably could've been made on the other end. I'd like to see the connections on the other end. Is White powering one strip, and Brown another, but we're spliced together?
    Is there a W in the condenser to power the resistance heat during defrost?
    And I have to ask... why Nest?
    SuperTech
  • jeffloby
    jeffloby Member Posts: 3
    https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1799265#Comment_1799265

    Sorry, I've been traveling for work. I've always just used the Nest brand. What brand do you recommend? Is the attached a correct setup?

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  • pecmsg
    pecmsg Member Posts: 5,271

    Honeywell

    or

    Ecobee

  • jeffloby
    jeffloby Member Posts: 3

    I might try the Ecobee. Is Google discontinuing the Nest thermostat?

  • Jamie Hall
    Jamie Hall Member Posts: 24,696

    Not that I know of. It is still a perfectly good thermostat — for forced air heating and cooling.

    Br. Jamie, osb
    Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England
  • pecmsg
    pecmsg Member Posts: 5,271
    https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1799932#Comment_1799932

    There gathering too much information to do that. Why do they GIVE it away?

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