Ecobee 3 and Trane Humidifier


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Old 10-19-20, 03:21 PM
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Ecobee 3 and Trane Humidifier

I can't get my Trane Humidifier to work. I wired it directly to my Ecobee 3 but it doesn't work when I test it. I have a Trane THUMD500APA00C. When I touched both wires coming out of the humidifier it did not start the humidifier. Also I tried to wire one wire from the humidifier to ACC+ and one wire to C and still nothing. Now I connected it as follows but it still not working:


This is from my TRANE docs:
 
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Old 10-19-20, 03:28 PM
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Did you make sure the switch is in bypass position ?
A direct short on the two humidifier wires should start its operation.
Is the humidifier plugged in ?
 
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There is no bypass position, that was on the old thermostat that was connected directly to the humidifier. I have the Humidifier plugged to a wall sockets.
 
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So inside my humidifier was this thing:




Black and White wires go to the 120V plug, checked with my multimeter and they do give power. Blue wires go to the fan and the other wires to a plug that connects to the other part of the humidifier where the solenoid is and the wires that go to the furnace.
 
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Ok... so when you connect the two humidifier wires..... nothing happens.... correct ?
That means there is a problem with the control board inside the humidifier.

I'm not intimately familiar with that Trane unit. Not a whole lot of internal technical info on it. As far as I know.... it should have a control board in it like in the link below. It may have been damaged when you connected 24v to those wires. That board contains its own 24v transformer that needs to be checked.

Trane humidifier control board


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Post more pictures of the inside.
Do two of those wires go to the solenoid and two are the incoming wires ?
Do the yellow and brown wires combine ?
 
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So the wires are as follows:

2 yellow = water solenoid
2 brown = to furnace/thermostat


 
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Old 10-19-20, 04:17 PM
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Ok.... thanks for the pictures.

We can see that the yellow and brown wires are combined. That means 24vAC needs to be applied to the brown wires in order to power the solenoid and to activate the blower relay. Basically nothing to damage there.

What you need to do is to connect one of the brown wires to ACC+ on the ecobee.
The other brown wires gets connected to furnace C.
Program the ecobee for ACC+ humidifier activation. (one wire)
 
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That worked! I did a test cycle and it worked! THANKS!
 
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Good job. Thanks for letting us know how you made out.
 
 

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