The powered humidifier was the easier of the two to get working. Simply turn off the humidistat and then find the wires where it is connected to.
Please provide help on the proper method of wiring the ecobee 3 to the humidifier and removing the humidistat. I also have 3 unused wires by.
Greetings! I have an Ecobee 4 and my humidifier is currently wired with a humidistat in the duct work.
Before I go any further, I should ask. The ecobee3 smart thermostat can do more than control your heating and cooling.
It was built with additional HVAC accessories in mind, such as humidifiers, dehumidifiers, ventilators, and HRVs or ERVs. ecobee3 uses ACC+/ACC- terminals to control a humidifier (or another indoor air.
Greetings! I have an Ecobee 4 and my humidifier is currently wired with a humidistat in the duct work. Before I go any further, I should ask.Hacking the Ecobee3 for Wiring Success.
I recently purchase an Ecobee3 thermostat. This is a brief story about why I went with it, and the issues I had wiring it up.
The current wiring at the furnace control panel consists of a red wire going to the C terminal and a white wire going to the W. This tracks, as it means the humidifier can only turn on when the heat is running.
The humidistat sits between this point and the actual humidifier to only turn it . No Humidifier wire coming from Furnace to thermostat as humidifier run based on outdoor sensor (not sensor from indoor Ecobee3). The automatic mode use an outdoor temperature sensor to reduce the humidity setting in colder weather.
As you first inspect your old thermostat’s wiring, be on the lookout for the “C” wire. In order to install an ecobee3, you’ll need a “C” wire — either an actual one, or a “virtual” one (more on that later).
Connect bypass humidifier to Ecobee 3 thermostat
Mar 01, · Thank you Pete and itsnot! I’ve got it figured out.
Fortunately, I had extra wire so I am simply running one wire from humidifier to ecobee3 in ACC+ and one wire from humidifier back to furnace board in COM 24 VAC. This seems to have solved everything.
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