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Try to rewire Nest and Furnace but Y is not used on Furnace

Home Improvement Asked by hong on October 10, 2020

I installed a Nest at home and it worked OK. Recently, I noticed there was a power issue. Google and others suggested adding a power supply by using the existing G wire because there are only 4 wires. Here is what I am planing to do:

On Nest side:

  • disconnect current G wire (green) and connect it to the C terminal

On furnace side:

  1. disconnect G wire(green) from the G terminal and connect it to the C
    terminal
  2. Add a jumper wire between Y and G.

However, when I checked my furnace, there is no wire on Y terminal, and there is a blue wire which directly connected to C terminal. But on my Nest side, there is no blue wire, instead, there is a black wire which connected to Y1. If I follow the above step and rewire Green wire to C terminal, what is the next? I tried, if I rewire Green wire to C terminal, when I turned on the cooling, the fan was not on, but the condenser is running.

Please provide you suggestions.

For reference, the current connection on Nest side is:

  • Black wire – > Y1;
  • White wire – > W1;
  • Red wire – > Rh;
  • Green wire – > G;

Furnace wiring

One Answer

If you only move G to C and jump Y and G, that will do nothing since there's no power going to Y currently. You'd have to "jump" from wherever your black wire (Y1) is actually connected, but if you go to the trouble of doing this, you're better off just running a new common wire.

You could try using Venstar Add-A-Wire, but I think this will be tricky in your case because your furnace isn't controlling your compressor relay, so you'd have to follow R and C and run the Y from the Add-A-Wire to the compressor itself (wherever your black wire is currently connected).

Answered by Matt on October 10, 2020

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