Hey guys, Joshua Griffin, err serving the middle Peninsula and the Northern Neck of Virginia. I wanted to do a video talking about the Honeywell programming and some of the definitions of some of the verbage that they use in there. I personally think that if you don't know how to install a thermostat or you, you know, you don't know what the wires mean or any of that hire a professional. The the couple bucks that you're gon na have to pay somebody to get them to install.

It is gon na save you so much headache and avoid a lot of issues that can happen if you install something wrong or if you accidentally short, something or and so on. So that's first of all hire pro, but with that said, how are us if you're in our coverage area, but with that said, I wanted to go through the manual and some of the verbage and what it means and things like that, because I think that you, As a homeowner, you know if you're watching this, I'm assuming you're a homeowner you've made your thinking about replacing your thermostat or you are, or whatever or you're, just adjusting some of the settings and how it was programmed. And that's really what this. The goal of this video is is to just go through some of the verbage some of the definitions, and that way you know what it means you know, because I don't know that the manual is very clear if you're, not in the trade, you may not know What some of this means so I'm gon na, go through it.

Real quick. I've got just a standard manual here. I'm not gon na go through any of the advanced settings. I'm not gon na go through any fancy stuff.

I'm gon na go through the normal stuff. The stuff that you got to get it straight for your thermostat to work correctly, so I've got a just a standard manual here, I'm gon na go through that, and - and hopefully it helps so the manual I've got here is for a t6 honey. Well, I we install mostly Honeywell thermostats, Honeywell or Dyken, and you know I'm sure there are other brands out there. There I'm sure, there's if there's other heat and air companies, that, like another brand for a particular reason.

We've just had a lot of good success with the Honeywell line, reliability and things like that, and I can't say that about all the brands that we've tried with that said, some of the verbage may be different for a different brand and or it may be, the Same I don't know, but that's something again if you're not sure what you're doing you definitely want to call pro, because you know when you start talking about we're gon na go through a few things here, but you let's say we're you're talking about multiple multi stage Units or something like that, I've noticed that different brands treat that differently. So one brand might call the same exact system. They may call it say a to heat one cool, whereas this brand over here might call it something totally different with the stages. Because of you know whether you know whether it's a heat pump and it has a reversing valve or just whatever.

I've noticed that with some of the brands, so with Honeywell, that's so I'm gon na stick with the way Honeywell. Does it and that's what makes sense to us and that's what we install the most of other than our Dyken high seer stuff and which has to get a daikin thermostat and and all of that, so let's go through some of this. The first option, when you go into the programming for this thermostat, you definitely want to have the manual in your hands were on your phone or whatever, because it's usually, if you're programming, one of these thermostats and it's just got the numbers flashing up, you don't know What the numbers are and it may not, unless you got the manual in your hands, you may not know what that means, what those numbers mean. So the first option that this manual gives us it's a scheduling options and it gives us four options: non-programmable, five, two programmable five, one one programmable and then seven-day programmable.

What do each one of those mean, because again with some other brands, if you say non-programmable, which is what your first option is, that means something totally different than what Honeywell calls non-programmable in this particular situation. It means that it's not digital or it's not. You know there there's no way to change the functions of it and it's a non programmable thermostat, but this is talking about your scheduling, meaning if you ran a schedule in that thermostat. You know turn one at this particular time in the day, turn off this time.

That sort of thing, and so the first option, non-programmable you're gon na turn - that turn it to that. If you don't plan to run a schedule, you don't want to have to click the whole button and you don't wan na, have to fool with any of that. So I have customers that you know will do that, for we don't we don't put a program in it and that we don't we they don't even want it popping up. You know because it it it screws them up and they they get confused and all that the next two are pretty simple.

So five, two and five one one that's referring to your weekdays and weekend. So five two just means all your weekdays would be on one schedule and all your wheat and your weekend would be on a separate schedule. 5 1 1 would be weekdays and then Saturday and then Sunday and you being able to run, ask a different schedule for each of those and then finally, of course, seven-day programmable. That's where you can run a different schedule each day of the week, pretty simple.

The next one temperature indication scale Fahrenheit or Celsius in America, we usually use Fahrenheit down here where it says system types. Now. This is where, if you again, if you don't know what kind of type a system you have, you need to hire a pro, you need to know what kind of system you have anyway. In my opinion, we we try to educate our customers, and, and so they know what what exactly they have the pros and cons of that particularly system.

Some systems have good and bad things about them, and so what you have in your home may not be listed on this list, believe it or not, and now I think in most cases it will be. But if you had some form of heat, that's not listed here, you want to understand how each one of these systems operate. So that way you can set up this thermostat to run the way you you know, your system needs it to run I'll. Give you a good example if you have a heat pump system with electric backup, not a dual fuel.

Well, that is going to if you tell the thermostat to operate that way, that thermostat itself is going to control the fan when it wants it to turn on and off, and all that good stuff. But in contrast there are gas heat. You know furnaces oil heat. All kinds of different forced air furnaces, but they burn some sort of fuel they do not.

They do not want the thermostat to control the fan, you're going to get a lot of cold air being pumped out at times if it does and in a lot of cases, those those sorts of systems they control. The fan the indoor fan motor themselves, so just keep that in mind. This list of things they've got listed here: conventional forced air, heat heat pump, radiant heat, none cool only you know, goes through so many different options. I'm not gon na go into each one of those options.

Unless you comment on this video and say you want me to I'll, do a whole separate video for that, but I don't think that's really necessary. I just think. Ultimately, you need to know what kind of system you have and if it's not listed understanding what that system needs, you know, and that will play a role in how you which one of these options you select. Okay, the next one, it says, reversing valve or B during the making of this video.

You know that this may change in the future, but during the making of this video, a heat pump has a reversing valve in there that will switch from heat to cool and what happens is with some brands that coil on that reversing valve needs to be energized. In one stage or the other, so I would go so far as to say 85, if not 90 % of the brands that are out there they're gon na engage that reversing valve in the cooling stage. Oh is what it would call it, and that o is what it refers to in the Honeywell manual and that's what that means. So, if you have a train carrier, good men die.

Can a man uh, I mean there's so many brands that that use. Oh that, as their Bryant all the ICP brands, they all use - oh so night and day hi-oh, all those brands they're going to use the oh okay again during the making of this video. I only know off on maybe a handful of brands that use the reversing valve and they energize in heating mode, and they call that B. Okay.

So, if you're replacing an old thermostat - and let's say that was a trained thermostat, the be on that train does not mean the B on this, and for that it means so Honeywell the stat. Okay, I mean to dip to two totally different things: I'm not gon na get into all that on this video, because again you should be hiring a pro, but that'd, be when that old train thermostat does not go to this B terminal on this. This Honeywell, if you do, that, you are not going to have a air conditioning that night you're going to short something so so yeah, so the the brands that do use be just off off the cuff that I just ones that I can think of right now. Rheem and Ruud both do they're both the same manufacturer.

I believe the new Fujitsu split systems are being made by Rheem. I have an installed one I don't plan to, but i but I'm sure, if there aren't, if they're being manufactured by Rheem chances are they might be energized and be. I don't know that for sure a couple other brands, some of the midea brands and that are made in China Bosch the old Amer stars. I think the new ameristar's are going to be made be made right back in the same.

They ingersoll-rand factories that, during the making of this video, it's what I've heard recently. So it's really only a handful of brands really that use B as their as their reverse. You know if you're not sure again hire Pro it's not hard for us to figure out what needs to be done with that. But if you don't know what you're doing again, you could really you know you can mess your system up.

So just keep that in mind. I'm not gon na get in all the stages. There's cool stay, cool stages, heat stages, again different brands. Do it different ways Honeywell like if you have just a standard electric heat pump system, you're gon na be looking at a to heat, one cool, because it's it counts that first stage of heat it as the heat pump itself and then the second stage would be You know your electric backup these things change as far if you have a dual fuel system or a multi-stage compressor or things like that, and it can be a little confusing so again, if you're not sure hire a pro just go through a couple of other things.

Here, let's see if you do have a dual fuel system and it asks you if you have an external fossil fuel kit chances are, you should be using a thermostat that controls that the the dual fuel capabilities in the old days we would install these whole separate Kits that would it itself would do the dual fuel systems, meaning if it got below a certain temperature outside it would bring on the backup heat versus trying to run that heat poem. These days, the thermostats have an outdoor temperature sensor and they can. They can control that themselves. You don't even need that whole extra kit, which back then was pretty pricey at times, let's see so system changeover.

This is one of my favorite functions. That Honeywell is making it's not an upgrade anymore. It's it's coming standard on a lot of they're, even lower in thermostats they're, putting system changeover valves on there. What is that? I did a whole video on this.

Basically talking about the advantages of doing this. If you live somewhere like we do where there are days, it's not a lot of them, but every spring every fall. We have days in Virginia that you will have heat come on at night, AC come on during the day. It's kind of warm, then today kind of cool at night, and so what's you know you're and you feel like you're, constantly fighting it.

You know I'm changing it from heat to cool and all that on your on your your mode. This allows you to set a temperature range okay and if it gets above that range, the AC will come to come in and if it gets below that range, the heat will turn on, and so I loved it. I always turn it on for for my own thermostats and I turn it on for a lot of our customers. Unless you know they don't want anything fancy you know, which is sometimes reasonable, ooh.

You know reasonable to request. You just wanted to be a couple of switches, a couple of functions and you're, not really looking to have all these bells and whistles and with this particular model, when you change when you, if you, if and when you turn that on it. What the next one says, Auto changeover differential, all of that sand is what's that range gon na be usually, I think factory is typically three or well. It says zero here, but if you turn it on, I think three is usually what's going to be your range.

I don't usually change that threes reasonable, but there may be situations where you may want a five degree range or you might not care about your utility bill at all and you might only have one or two degree range. So you know you set a temperature and it stays at that temperature, whether it's got ta bring on heat or a/c. Okay, the next option and this thermostat manual - that I absolutely love it's one of my favorite functions that they ever came out with and because it saves energy, and that is your backup heat group. We always turn this on if it's a heat pump of any kind.

I don't care if it's dual fuel regular electric, whatever I'm turning this on and essentially what it is, is you know the old Honeywell 3000 a lot of the older thermostats. They would already have this sort of built-in heat droop, that's what they call it, and essentially what that was was if, if the temperature in the room dropped to degrees less than what the set temperature was, it would bring on the back cup heat okay. Why does that matter? Well, you know your backup heat in a lot of cases isn't as efficient as that first stage, okay, and so you can set that for whatever you want. We usually just set it for two so that you get that to then then it's gon na bring that on one it's gon na bring on your backup heat.

Okay, the next one is your upstage timer for the backup heat. I love this and what this is is a it's a timer for that backup, heat meaning. If it let's say you set the last one for two: let's say it drop down to three degrees. So you got.

You got a two degree heat droop and you got it set for this temperature and it drops below your. You know, whatever that that heat drew temp heat, droop temperature is, and it says, hey we're ready to bring on the backup heat. This timer is gon na delay that for whatever time you said it for we usually just do thirty minutes, but that can save you so much energy. Why? Because, if you let's say you get off work house is a little chilly.

You walk in you turn the heat up: okay, you're ready for it to get nice and toasty in there and what it's going to. What it's going to do is if there's that two degree difference and you don't have a timer, you turn that heat up higher than two degrees. What that room temperature is that backup heat is going to come, one almost then instantly and and start drawing energy. I remember in the old days I used to work at a place that they would never turn the temperature up or down more than a degree, because they were so scared of of other stages of heat coming on, and so I always thought that was funny.

Maybe if it was sixty degrees in that room, they would do 61 and they want to reach that they go to 62. I know it's funny, but um. This timer is going to give that heat pump. Okay, it's you said it for 30 minutes.

It's gon na give that heat pump 30 minutes. So if you get a mild day like we do in Virginia, where you know you, the heat might come on, but you don't you, you know you don't need full Barre, blasting Heat! You just need something to knock. The chill off something that's you know more efficient, something I don't think that every day is created equal and a cold January winter day. When you got that heat pumping, you don't necessarily need that.

You know on an April morning and you're just trying to knock the chill off okay, so that timer is gon na give it a chance. It's gon na save you energy, because if that heat pump can reach temperature, your backup heat won't won't ever have to come. One compressor lockout I've seen this verbage, I'm not gon na get in all this outdoor lockout compressor to walk out and all that, that's something you need to hire a pro for. That's functions that you might use if you are going to do a dual fuel or something like that, I'm also not going to get into cycle rate.

I usually don't change them anyway. That they're set Honeywell sets them for us from the factory depending on what type of system you tell it that you have and then some models that they don't. Even let you change that, but if it does allow you to be careful messing with all of that, you could be really uh. You know throwing your thermostat out of whack.

There just got a few more things: compressor protection, I've seen other verbage use for this, but basically it might say you know protection or, or you know, whatever compressor, timer or whatever, and what what basically, what that is, is whatever you set that for it's going to Have a delay and get the the goal is, so you don't ever have any sudden aren't often Owens often Owens, with the compressor which can happen if you don't have any sort of protection time or on. Remember the old thermostats. That kind of had the levers right and the little mercury bubbles floating around inside those had no delay. So that says some very well.

I remember seeing systems you in the old days. We would see systems that would turn on and they'd run for about 10 seconds and they'd turn off and then two seconds later back on again that is so so hard on your compressor and your electric bill. It is going to be loving you as well. This is going to eliminate that it's going to turn off refrigerants going to equalize and then that it went Tom.

That system will turn back on adaptive, intelligent recovery. This is this: a fancy word that they basically throw in there. Essentially what that is well. Is it even has a little note here says adaptive intelligent recovery is a comfort setting heating or cooling equipment will turn on earlier.

Ensuring the indoor temperature will match the setpoint of your scheduled time so essentially, and it it it's actually really cool technology they've been doing it for a number of years. Essentially, what it's going to do is it's going to learn your house and it's going to say. Okay, you know it takes me 20 minutes to reach temperature whenever they have a set point that day, and so it's going to just turn on 20 minutes earlier. That's essentially all that me and so like, if you have it set for it to be at 72, when you get home from work at 5 o'clock, okay, then it's going to come on at 20 minutes to 5:00 and bring that house up.

You know if that's what you have a set out: okay, minimum maximum set points. I always change these. I'm not gon na get into what you know. Maybe what you need to set it at.

I don't personally think there's any reason for a thermostat to be set ridiculously higher than the room, temperature or ridiculously lower most depending on what type of system you have that most systems they're not going to operate differently anyway, if there's a two degree difference or a 20 degree difference so in the short term anyway. Now, if there's a 20 degree difference from you know what the what the temperature in the room is and what you have a set at, it's gon na keep running running running until it reaches that 20 degrees or or just continues to run anyway. But because of that I mean especially if you have kids in the house - let's say one of them's fooling around and they change the temperature. They can't mess up your house, but so much if you're setting those set points for them.

Last few things there are some reminders you can put in there there's some other there's some other settings here too, but I'm not going to get into those. There are things that you should be hiring a pro for, but your air filters and and your UV lights and all these other different types of of reminders, essentially they're, just timers, and you can change so if you have a two year, UV light versus a one Year, you know you can change, make make the necessary timer changes. If you have a specific scuse me specific type of filter, you know one that can be, can last an entire year versus one that only lasts 30 days. You can make those changes and so on a back lighting.

All that is that's just the light on the thermostat. You know the display when it lights up and you can see it, you can actually turn that on to stay on continuously. Most folks, don't want that. They just want it on demand.

You know you don't need it lighting up your entire house in the middle of the night, so yeah. I hope this video helped if you are installing a Honeywell thermostat got any comments, put them in down in the comment section and if you need any heating and air or plumbing work done and Northern Neck or middle Peninsula area of Virginia, give us a call. Our phone numbers right there, 50/50 air, 804, 505, 0 or 247, or you can go to our website, I'm always putting new stuff on there, trying to be better and better about that information. That's for you and all that and then finally, if you're just a listener on YouTube - and you are checking this video out because of whatever reason we I'm personally do most of our videos and I'm always trying to do informative stuff.

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