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W2 and w wires

kcdawg19
Community Member

Replacing honeywell with nest 5 wires white w2 green G blue w  yellow y and brown r with jumper to rc. What to do with  w2 wire?

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CoolingWizard
Platinum Product Expert
Platinum Product Expert

This system has two stages of Heat. Stage one is W and stage two is W2. It has a single stage of cooling ( Y), a blower fan (G) and the input , Power IN (R). Using the nest installation app, input the wires in use, W2, W, Y, G, R.  Set system heat type to Forced Air.  Without additional information about your HVAC system, I cannot go much further to help you.  Just follow the installation steps as outlined in the documentation provided with the Nest thermostat and the online configuration tool. Nest software and configuration tools are pretty smart and as long as you tell it what wires are being plugged into which terminals and what color wire they are so you know where to put them on the new one, it will understand that you have two stages of heat and it will tell you where the W2 wire of the old thermostat gets plugged into on the nest backplate. Depending on your system type in fuel type it could be placed in * or it could be placed in AUX. The configuration tool will know where to put it and most importantly it will tell the thermostat itself where to find the second stage of heat. Cannot simply look at the wires on the old thermostat and plug them on the best back plane and get it all to work you must follow the installation steps including installing the nest app and following the online configuration tool that you’ll be directed to.

Ken, The Cooling Wizard 

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aatienza
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hey kcdawg19,

 

Checking in — we hope you've got the answer you're looking for. Let us know if you have more questions in mind.
 

I appreciate the help, Ken.

 

Thanks,

Archie

kcdawg19
Community Member

ok, thank you

Jake
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hey kcdawg19,


I wanted to check in and see if you are still in need of any help. Please let me know, as I would be happy to assist, and answer any questions you may have.

Best regards,
Jake

Jake
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hey kcdawg19,


I wanted to follow up with you, and see how the installation went. Please let me know if you have any trouble, as I would be happy to take a closer look.

 

Best regards,

Jake

Jake
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hey kcdawg19,


I wanted to follow up with you. Please let me know if you have any questions from here, as I would be happy to review.

Best regards,
Jake

Jake
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hey kcdawg19,


I wanted to check in, and let you know that I will be locking the thread in 24 hours.

 

Best regards,

Jake

EdwardT
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hi folks,

 

Thanks for the help here Ken.

 

@kcdawg19,Since we have not received any more replies for quite some time, I will be locking this thread now. Please feel free to create a new thread should you have some more questions or concerns in the near future and we'll be more than glad to help.

 

Thanks,

Edward

 

kcdawg19
Community Member

I haven't had the time to attempt the install yet hopefully this weekend and will followup here with results and or problem. Thanks

CoolingWizard
Platinum Product Expert
Platinum Product Expert

KCdawg19,

we have not heard back from you so just would like to check in and see if you had time to make the changes that were suggested to you and if the system is now working properly for you. If you get a moment please reply and give us an update status. If not within 24 hours they will indeed lock this thread and get considered complete.

Ken, The AC Cooling Wizard

NestPro, Google Pro, Mechanical Engineer and HVAC service company owner.
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