My home has separate heating and cooling systems. (The heating is done with radiators and the cooling is a conventional AC.) Does anybody happen to know if Nest works in this type of system?
I looked at the wiring for the previous generation and at the very least it wired up to such systems. I'm fairly sure it works with them - and, in spite of all the pretty pictures, the site ( http://www.nest.com/ ) is quite informative.
It's a >70 year old house, so it's a miracle when I can get wires anywhere.
What we have in our favor, though, is that the boiler is in the unfinished basement, the air handler is in the unfinished attic, and our electrician ran some pull string through a chaseway that connects the two. It may actually be possible to get both sets of wires to the same spot.
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My home has separate heating and cooling systems. (The heating is done with radiators and the cooling is a conventional AC.) Does anybody happen to know if Nest works in this type of system?
I looked at the wiring for the previous generation and at the very least it wired up to such systems. I'm fairly sure it works with them - and, in spite of all the pretty pictures, the site ( http://www.nest.com/ ) is quite informative.
I believe it should. If the systems have separate thermostats you'll need two nests though I think (they apparently can communicate with one another).
>If the systems have separate thermostats you'll need two nests though I think
You shouldn't, unless you can't run the wires to the same location for some reason.
It's a >70 year old house, so it's a miracle when I can get wires anywhere.
What we have in our favor, though, is that the boiler is in the unfinished basement, the air handler is in the unfinished attic, and our electrician ran some pull string through a chaseway that connects the two. It may actually be possible to get both sets of wires to the same spot.