Furnace Thermostat

[dfp]

We have two thermostats, one in the kitchen area and the second in the bedroom. The bedroom only controls the AC/heatpump and not the furnace. Has anyone tried to rewire or modify so that the bedroom thermostat can also turn the furnace on and off.

[chrisbailey13]

To clarify, are you wanting to abandon the one in the kitchen to use the one in the bedroom?


If not, I don't think you can use 2 thermostats to control one furnace.

[Toddupton]

Originally Posted by chrisbailey13

To clarify, are you wanting to abandon the one in the kitchen to use the one in the bedroom?


If not, I don't think you can use 2 thermostats to control one furnace.

Yes you absolutely can use 2 stats on one thermostat and I would think they would be that way from the factory but may not be.

[alsdas88]

I just rewired mine on the recommendation of my RV service center. My Dometic control system uses a data cable and multiple circuit boards to daisy chain the heater and the two AC units together with a single controller to control all 3 units. My heater recently had a failure and even thought the service location isolated the fault to a circuit board on the heater itself, they highly recommended I install a 2 wire controller to control the heater separately from the AC units. I did this when I installed the heater last week and the new controller has worked excellent.

[dfp]

I do not want to abandon a thermostat I just want to be able to turn the furnace on from one or the other.