Attach a Thermostat to Escape 30

[Rockpile]

I am a newby so please excuse me if this is a dumb question.

The thermostat built into the RC300 remote that controls my Escape 30 fireplace insert is not very accurate, does anyone know if I could wire in a Honeywell or similar low- oltage wall mounted thermostat?

I have looked at the installer manual and the wiring diagram is not very helpful.

Any advice gratefully received.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

I’d first check to see if voltage is the same. If the same I suppose I’d see if they happened to use a red and white wire combination. You can use any colored wire, but maybe you get lucky, lol.

I think I’d call them and ask what they thought before I did it. If something went wrong, and low voltage equipment was damaged, it could get expensive. My gut says it should be ok, but I recently had a HVAC tech send 115 V through the low voltage pieces of a furnace and it was an expensive oops.

 

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[Lennox65]

I am a newby so please excuse me if this is a dumb question.

The thermostat built into the RC300 remote that controls my Escape 30 fireplace insert is not very accurate, does anyone know if I could wire in a Honeywell or similar low- oltage wall mounted thermostat?

I have looked at the installer manual and the wiring diagram is not very helpful.

Any advice gratefully received.

The HeatnGlo Metal Inserts had a rocker switch that mounted to the side of the surround but I don't think that the Firebrick (Which the Escape is one) have that switch. If there are two brown switch wires on the wiring harness, you could connect a thermostat to those. You would still have to use the remote to control the aux functions, so I don't know how practical that would be?