Aquastat (L6006C) with furnace Fan

[Love the Heat]

Gidday everyone..

I have an aquastat Honeywell L606C coming in the mail with my intention
to start my HVAC blower Fan when I reach a certain temperature from boiler.

1. Which contact should I use on the furnace??? RG or CG or else??

2. in your opinion, can I have the aquastat running in parallel with my T-Stat???

Cheers

 

[maple1]

1. I think you want to close contacts on temp rise, so that would be R-W. That's by looking at the manual I have - don't see any C or G in there?

2. Are they the same voltages? If you only want your fan to run when the boiler is up to temp AND the stat is calling for heat, I would think you would wire in series. Not sure that's what you want, but think you would also need to add in a relay if so. (Don't know your stat setup). You could also run the stat thru the R-B side if you want the fan to start when the boiler is up to temp but want the stat to control the fan if the boiler is not up to temp - but you would need a relay there too. I think.

 

[Love the Heat]

1. I think you want to close contacts on temp rise, so that would be R-W. That's by looking at the manual I have - don't see any C or G in there?

Yes RW on the aquastat but my question was to which one on the Furnace????
Thx ..

 

[maple1]

Sorry, my mistake.

Don't think I can help more - hopefully someone else can.

But might help to know exactly how you want to control - like, fan on only when both are calling, or an either/or thing? You still might need or want a relay. E.g., if you want the fan on only when both are calling (T-Stat calling & boiler up to temp), I would maybe put a relay in the T-stat wires, with the switch side of the relay wired to the stat wires and the coil side of the relay wired to the line coming from the R-W Aquastat terminals.

Maybe someone else who has been through this exact thing will jump in.

 

[velvetfoot]

I have no experience with this, but have been fooling around with my thermostat recently.

From reading http://s3.supplyhouse.com/manuals/1350893573345/84050_PROD_FILE.pdf , it looks like this aquastat doesn't require power to run. So, the only transformer involved is the one for the furnace. So, at least there's no question of different sources.

For my thermostat, this is a typical wiring diagram. It looks like R and G are the wires to run the fan.


Thinking out loud, if the thermostat is still connected to the existing system and calls for heat, it will close R and W, the furnace will start up and the fan will likely run when the furnace tells it to. If the boiler aquastat is connected to just R and G, it would seem that the fan would start every time the boiler came up to temp, regardless of what the thermostat says. So, if you are just wanting to remove heat from the boiler, as in, it doesn't cycle or have storage, then I guess you could do that-it would be like burning a wood stove, but all the rooms would heat up evenly. I wonder if there could be some scenario where both the furnace and the boiler are running at the same time-that could be something where you'd want a relay to lock out the furnace. The original heating system would take over when things cooled down.

If you did have storage, (I think cycling is considered bad from an air pollution point of view), I think it'd be a different story.

Maybe you should post what your plans are.

And again, I'm just thinking out loud.

 

[Love the Heat]

I have no experience with this, but have been fooling around with my thermostat recently.

From reading http://s3.supplyhouse.com/manuals/1350893573345/84050_PROD_FILE.pdf , it looks like this aquastat doesn't require power to run. So, the only transformer involved is the one for the furnace. So, at least there's no question of different sources.

For my thermostat, this is a typical wiring diagram. It looks like R and G are the wires to run the fan.
View attachment 168555

Thinking out loud, if the thermostat is still connected to the existing system and calls for heat, it will close R and W, the furnace will start up and the fan will likely run when the furnace tells it to. If the boiler aquastat is connected to just R and G, it would seem that the fan would start every time the boiler came up to temp, regardless of what the thermostat says. So, if you are just wanting to remove heat from the boiler, as in, it doesn't cycle or have storage, then I guess you could do that-it would be like burning a wood stove, but all the rooms would heat up evenly. I wonder if there could be some scenario where both the furnace and the boiler are running at the same time-that could be something where you'd want a relay to lock out the furnace. The original heating system would take over when things cooled down.

If you did have storage, (I think cycling is considered bad from an air pollution point of view), I think it'd be a different story.

Maybe you should post what your plans are.

And again, I'm just thinking out loud.

Thx a million you have covered every aspect of my installation and circumstance that I will be facing.
Cheers

 

[Love the Heat]

Sorry, my mistake.

Don't think I can help more - hopefully someone else can.

But might help to know exactly how you want to control - like, fan on only when both are calling, or an either/or thing? You still might need or want a relay. E.g., if you want the fan on only when both are calling (T-Stat calling & boiler up to temp), I would maybe put a relay in the T-stat wires, with the switch side of the relay wired to the stat wires and the coil side of the relay wired to the line coming from the R-W Aquastat terminals.

Maybe someone else who has been through this exact thing will jump in.

Thx...