Aprilaire 6303 CP/Braeburn thermostat

We've got a all electric heat pump system in our house. I recently turned on the heat through my braeburn 1200 model thermostat. The compressor turned on outside and the air handler started up in our attic. We got air blowing out of the registers but it's cold air. It won't get above 70 degrees, even when I switch on the emergency strip heat.

I went upstairs to the air handler, removed the cover for the control panel and noticed there is a red light emitting from next to the "B" terminal (which is labeled for the reversing valve). Funny thing is, there is NO wire going into that terminal.

Any thoughts please?

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Yeah, something is broken.

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I figure something is broken, but I had a hope that this has happened to somebody else who could shed some light on it for me without having me have a repairman come out.

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gbidruglord

Which just proves your another cheap ass bastard. Go ahead and f*ck with it. See if I care that you'll end up spending twice as much. Your welcome.

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what a maroon

Sure, Ive seen this lots of times. It could be: Thermostat Refrigerant leak Reversing valve Compressor Overcharged Undercharged low press sw. Hi press sw. Bad limit Bad heating elements Broken/burnt wire/s Mis wired Bad Circuit board Operator error or about 50 other things. Your welcome Bite Me Bubba

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Make the call, nobody can see it through the computer screen or take the necessary readings to troubleshoot through the computer.

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Steve

Most of the folks who read and post this group are repairmen. You want us to give you, free, what it cost us years to learn?

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Stormin Mormon

Since everyone else on here only seems to want to give you a hard time, I thought I would give you some simple input. As someone said, it could be many things, and they are telling you that because they are contractors and that is their job, though I have to admit that this is one of the most vile group I have ever seen. Ah! the internet. Gotta love it.

The fact that the heat strips do not come on, could lend some credibility to a bad stat. The Breaburn stats are pretty good, but failures are not uncommon. To test this, jumper r-y and r-w. The aux heat should come on. If not, it is probably the stat. Replace it. If that does not answer that question, call someone and stop wasting your time here. All you are going to get is humiliated.

Good Luck

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The folks here are trying to make a living. That's hard to do while at the same time telling people, for free, how to do their own repairs.

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The original poster asked a question, and I am pretty sure he was not out to pick a fight. Just pick up your manometer and get out there and make a living and stop worrying about it. I am amazed at the few who get up on their soapbox and growl about the do-it-yourselfer. They belong to the "5%" They are the 5% that are never going to call you, so stop wasting emotion.

Have a nice day. askboyd

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You need to buy a clue.

I went out on a call yesterday where the home owner went with the cheapest priced service call fee in JULY, and the guy was back 5 times, cost the HO over $1000, and still didn't find and fix the original problem. They finally called me. *IF* they had called me in the first place, the total bill would have been less than $250, and I carry that part on the truck. As it is, the bill was considerably higher because I had to re-wire the entire furnace to put it back to original factory spec before I could even troubleshoot to figure out what was wrong in the first place. They have been doing without since July because they couldn't afford to get it fixed after being soaked for over a grand.

We are not "hatefull" we just get real tired of having folks come inhere wanting us to tell them how to fix their furnace without any idea of their abilities or what tools they have. I for one don't want to be responsible for putting somebodys life, limb, and/or property at risk because of advice given in here.

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My customers call me, and a lot of new customers call me... I respond in a professional manner. If the cheap assed boneheads that come in here wanting it for free were *my* customers, they wouldn't be posting in here in the first place.

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Steve

Since everyone else on here only seems to want to give you a hard time, I thought I would give you some simple input. As someone said, it could be many things, and they are telling you that because they are contractors and that is their job, though I have to admit that this is one of the most vile group I have ever seen. Ah! the internet. Gotta love it.

The fact that the heat strips do not come on, could lend some credibility to a bad stat. The Breaburn stats are pretty good, but failures are not uncommon. To test this, jumper r-y and r-w. The aux heat should come on. If not, it is probably the stat. Replace it. If that does not answer that question, call someone and stop wasting your time here. All you are going to get is humiliated.

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I don't know how many of those POS Breaburn stats you have installed, but 2 or 3 years ago, I installed about 4 cases of them, and 75% of them had to be replaced under warranty. At least my supplier took care of me and I was able to replace them all with Honeywell. No more problems.

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Actually I had awesome good luck with the Braeburn stats. We have installed 199 of them to date. I have one left. I know the amount because they let you order battery doors with your name info imprinted for FREE! I did 2 orders of 100 of them. My supplier then quit ordering them because I seemed to be the only contractor using them. To date I have had 3 of them come back.

1) From an old lady that just couldnt operate a digital NON programmable stat. I reinstalled her old T87F 2) One that did go haywire and would overheat the home. 3) The last one the display disappeared and never came back. All were in warranty. Pretty darned good experience. Ive installed a ton of Honeywell. Remember all the T8300 8400's and 8600's that came back with all kind of digital problems? Just like the furnaces today. Its all shit. Its all cheap. Bubba
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Bubba

I do not agree. I would choose a contractor that is helpful over one who is not. I expect the one who is helpful would be easier to work with. From reading this group, I would only pick one or two of the people here if they were in the area where I live. The rest seem too intent on making jokes and bragging about how hard it is to become a HVAC tech. You would think it is easier to become a rocket scientist if you believed their posts.

=20 Dan

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dcaster

I do not agree. I would choose a contractor that is helpful over one who is not. I expect the one who is helpful would be easier to work with. From reading this group, I would only pick one or two of the people here if they were in the area where I live. The rest seem too intent on making jokes and bragging about how hard it is to become a HVAC tech. You would think it is easier to become a rocket scientist if you believed their posts.

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So you would call some hack that doesn't have a clue and cost you many hundreds of dollars more than what you should have paid, and still don't have the original problem fixed?? just because he was nice or helpful??

Knock yourself out..... when you get tired of getting screwed over by somebody that was nice or helpful , instead of somebody that actually knows what they are doing, then give us a call.

You can get it done "cheap" or you can get it done right.

Now...before you get your panties in a wad, you need to ride with a

*competent* tech for a week and *SEE* first hand what kind of crap we run across on a daily basis because of low bidders and home-owners screwing with stuff they don't have a clue about.
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