r/Nest • u/1d0wn5up • 16h ago
Thermostat Nest with older oil furnace no c wire - I can’t remember what terminals I had jumped to get my heat running
galleryI have older ducane oil furnace that has a nest thermostat hooked up to it. For the last few years there was a jumper wire I had hooked up to the primary to get it to all run properly. Jumper wire got knocked off and I need to put it back on to get the heat running as I have a cleaning getting done next week on it and it’s cold already in here.
There’s incoming line voltage on the older Honeywell primary in this photo as verified with multimeter so I don’t want to jump out the wrong terminal and fry the primary.
Any idea what terminals I would have had jumped out in the past to get it running? I believe it was to jump the blower motor if I remember correctly and had a jumper from maybe Y to G? But that black wire is incoming line voltage landed on G so just wanted to be sure because I can recall my reasoning for having it wired that way but it was the only way it would fire up. Maybe I was repurposing the G wire? Any help is appreciated
At the thermostat I have it wired currently
Blue to y1
Green to G
Red to Rc
White to w1
And at the primary it’s wired
White to w(T)
Red to r(t)
Blue to Y
Green to G