Hello!
Recently had a thunderstorm in the area where we lost internet connection at our house, didn’t notice a power outage, but lightning struck close. After this happened our Nest learning thermostat gen 3 turned off and didn’t comeback on around 1 in the morning. Woke up and the thermostat was indicating a temperature of 86 in the house and yes it was hot, but the cooling was set to 71. HVAC technician came by and cleaned and checked our unit and noticed that the thermostat was not sending an O signal. The thermostat would have the unit come on for a minute then turnoff. Only way he could get AC to turn on was by jumping the heat pump wiring to the AC, so now I have no heat, but the AC unit was working. Set at 68 and 68 coming out of the vents. Awesome.
A day later, the unit was running for 23 hours straight. The Nest indicating 86 degrees but 68 blowing out of vents all night. Temperature never dropped according to the thermostat. I turned the unit off to help save energy and hope to not kill it and the nest is now indicating that the temperature dropped in the house to 71 but it feels hotter. Turn the AC unit back on and the temperature according to the thermostat is higher but it feels cooler in the house. So now I am stuck manually turning unit off and on to help save energy and money.
