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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:19:31 -0500
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Subject: Priority switch? (Lektricuty question)
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Mike in Arkansas wrote:
Let me ramble for a bit here. As I understand, you want power to the

heater available at all times when the thermostat calls for heat and
when it does you want to interrupt the power to the compressor it it
will not run until the heater goes off.

Isn't that backwards?

Maybe, but it was my understanding that because the heater only came on
so rarely that he could live without the compressor for the very short
time it was on. BTW, I was assuming that there was an external
thermostat involved in the previous suggested method. If not, and the
heater has an internal thermostat without 24 vac, then the relay coil
would need to be 240 volts and would be wired directly to the heater
element connectors inside the furnace. Be glad to fax a drawing to OP
if it will help.