russian rocket Posted November 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 i hope this pic will help http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b331/kliped/2012-11-29_20-40-02_72-1.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russian rocket Posted November 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 ac condenser, blue wire to C, white wire to Y. Argo relay/transformer, red wire to R, green wire to G. T-stat harness, red and orange wires to R, green and blue wires to G, white wire to W and yellow wire to Y. i dont know if this will help any, but i spoke to someone who does this stuff earlier and he told me it kind of sounds like a low voltage situation because the ac condenser is kicking on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duff1647545513 Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 That pic helps. Your condenser is hooked up fine. Don't touch what I said earlier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattKatz Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Explain to me the function of this "ARGO" relay, what controls it, and what is hooked up on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattKatz Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Something on your original stat is making the AC come on looking at the wires, there is no way the new stats orange or blue wire is causing this. I dont see how the ARGO could either as it goes from the R and to the G....Thatg seems odd there as both of those points are a 24V Hot source depending on what state things are in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russian rocket Posted November 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Explain to me the function of this "ARGO" relay, what controls it, and what is hooked up on it. there is a red wire going to it from the furnace, if this wire gets hot, its supposed to activate the relay which then is supposed to turn on the furnace blower. it also has a 120v black wire going into it. lastly it has the two wires from the furnace, the red and green wires going into it. http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b331/kliped/2012-11-29_21-09-37_867.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattKatz Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Ok...Thats fine....Its a Simple blower relay off a Temp switch somewhere. can you pop your original T stat loose and see the wires. SOmething is up wierd here. I see no reason why your AC is coming on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russian rocket Posted November 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 here you go http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b331/kliped/2012-11-29_21-25-10_559-1.jpg someone on another forum just posted this They or you need to install an isolation rellay. The t-stat turns the fan on in cooling, so if you put power on g, from rc it will back feed to y. Energizing cond. Or just shut power off to cond, problem solved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattKatz Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 i was going there....I can tell you how to do that, but you dont have what you need there I am sure. It shouldnt backfeed though...but I have seen more interesting things. You dont usually wire to Tstats to one furnace....so this is definately a different application. Pull the G wire going back to the main stat for now and see if it stops the AC, if so then yes you need to isolate the two circuits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russian rocket Posted November 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 i was going there....I can tell you how to do that, but you dont have what you need there I am sure. It shouldnt backfeed though...but I have seen more interesting things. You dont usually wire to Tstats to one furnace....so this is definately a different application. Pull the G wire going back to the main stat for now and see if it stops the AC, if so then yes you need to isolate the two circuits. pulled the green wire from the main stat and the ac condenser did not kick on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattKatz Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 YOu can tape it up....and leave it, or pull it from the board at the furnace for now if you dont need to run the cooling or fan from the main stat until you can get them back and install isolating relays. Still not sure why its doing it, but Like I said, Ive seen wierder stuff. If you want you can make it even easier and just pull the white wire off the the Y terminal on the furnace leaving the yellow, that wire wont be energized ever, and everything will function properly with the exception of you killing the control to the AC unit.....Its 25* out....so right now who really cares right. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russian rocket Posted November 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 YOu can tape it up....and leave it, or pull it from the board at the furnace for now if you dont need to run the cooling or fan from the main stat until you can get them back and install isolating relays. Still not sure why its doing it, but Like I said, Ive seen wierder stuff. If you want you can make it even easier and just pull the white wire off the the Y terminal on the furnace leaving the yellow, that wire wont be energized ever, and everything will function properly with the exception of you killing the control to the AC unit.....Its 25* out....so right now who really cares right. ok, will do, thanks again for you help, i definitely appreciate the time you spent going over things for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XChris1632X Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Why not do away with the second thermostats and install one two stage tstat to control the wood furnace as a 1st stage and the furnace as an aux stage when the wood fire doesn't keep up. I just had a customer request this last week and with the right tstat it works great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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