How Do I Determine If My Trane Unit is Multi-stage and has aux/backup heat?


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How Do I Determine If My Trane Unit is Multi-stage and has aux/backup heat?

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Thermostat= Honeywell RTH221B
Heat Pump: Trane Axiom Water-Source Heat Pump (Model No= GEHB02411L0210RL0010000200000000000)

HeatPumpManual
trane/webcache/water source heat pumps/service/wshp-svx01g-en_09012008.pdf

Hi,
I bought a new thermostat (Honeywell RTH221B), and when I call for heat, only cold air is coming out of the vents.

I’m noticing that the thermostat manual has the following: “This thermostat cannot be used on heat pumps with backup heat or on multistage systems.”

How do I determine if my unit has backup heat or is a multistage system?

Here is the pic of the old thermostat wiring:
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Old 12-31-17, 11:23 AM
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Welcome to the forums.

Digit 22 - Electric Heat
0 = None
1 = Internal Boilerless Electric Heat
4 = External Boilerless Control Electric Heat

According to the model number you don't have backup electric heat.
No multistage controlled by thermostat either.

Usually on a Trane the B is the C connection. It looks like X may be the C connection which means you won't use it. Just tape it off.

Jumper J1 in HE position. Jumper J2 in O position.
OR set slide switch to heat pump.

In advanced programming set function 5 to 3.
honeywell/resources/techlit/TechLitDocuments/33-00000s/33-00102EF.pdf

Is this your only source of heat ?
Are you in a cold location ?
Heat pump systems are usually slow heating so be careful if you use setback as you may be in for some cold times waiting for the system to recover.
 

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Thank you Pete! For my learning, how could you tell I didn't have a multi-stage heat pump based on the wiring? Only one Y1 wire?
 
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Correct..... only one compressor wire.

It could be multistage based on time but it's not determined at the thermostat.
I'm not real familiar with the complete workings of geo thermal units.
 
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can tell by the wiring, that's a single stage with no backup heat.

if your unit was air to air, it probably would have backup heat due to capacity loss as it gets colder outside.
 
 

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