[Hai-users] Thermostat to expansion cabinet

[John Purnell]

Doug, again thanks for confirming. fortunately i have a few spare 
conductors remaining in the run, so i don't have to actually pull more wire.

Thanks,
John.



At 10:50 AM 11/2/2013, Doug Ringler wrote:
>John,
>
>Correct, you need to bring the Tstat back to the OP2 panel.  I have had to
>do this with multiple areas.  They also say the ER Temp sensors don't work
>with the expansion panels, but I find that they do, just not as a temp alarm
>(but you can establish the alarm with a NOT READY and then program it as an
>"ANY ALARM".
>
>Doug
>
>
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>Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2013 10:11 AM
>To: hai-users at tssi.com
>Subject: [Hai-users] Thermostat to expansion cabinet
>
>I have a separate pole barn/shop with an expansion cabinet in it, hooks to
>the OP2 with cat5 underground. I want to put an omnistat in the shop so I
>can easily do programmed heat scenarios instead of just a simple mechanical
>"relay" timing that works now.
>
>I've scanned the manuals and I don't see that I can hook the communication
>of an omnistat up to an expansion cabinet? I forgot that the omnistat does
>NOT use the rs485 com A/B/Gnd for communication, but instead I think they
>all hook to output 8 and input 16 or something like that. So then you give
>multiple Tstats separate addresses, 1,2,3 etc...
>
>but I was hoping to wire the Tstat direct to my remote expansion cabinet? Am
>I missing something? Anyone doing this? I just don't see anything in the
>books that shows I can do this. It appears to me I need to bring the Tstat
>comm back all the way direct to the OP2?
>
>John.
>N9EM
>gettin' colder here in Wisconsin.
>CQ DX
>
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