Digital Thermostat Upgrade Question

[datx]

Hello! My 29.5 BHDS has two 15 btu A/Cs with the manual slider thermostats. I went out and bought two Coleman Digital Wall Thermostats (8330-3862) to replace them (as most have said they are wire for wire replacements)

I upgraded the first A/C and everything appears to work normally. I was wiring in the second when I realized the thermostat had one more wire than what was coming from the wall. After closer inspection and hours of hard detective work, I realized the second A/C thermostat doesn't have a "heat" .. duh.

Looking at the documentation, the lone white wire is what triggers the furnace.

My question - if I just wire nut that wire off, would I be doing anything "risky"? Seems like thermostats aren't very complicated and it wouldn't present any risks to not hook up that wire..?

Would it be better if I attached the furnace wire to the compressor wire? So heat or cool would always start the AC?

Orrrr should I just buy the right thermostat?

Thanks for the opinions!

[Rustysocket]

I don't see how it would cause you a problem other than if the thermostat was calling for heat the signal just wouldn't be going anywhere.


I've got the main digital I removed from my last coach and haven't got around to installing it yet. Do they make the digital version for the cool only circuit?

[datx]

Pretty certain they do.. It makes reference to it in some of the documentation like "if using the cool only model".. Pretty sure this is the wrong one for my RV, but something like the Coleman 8330-3462..

[norty1]

When I did mine, I just put a cap on the heat wire on the unit that had no heat.

2 years later, it works fine.

At the time I bought my thermostats, the model without the heat option cost more $$$ so I just went that way.

The way I look at it, now I have a spare thermostat, if necessary, for troubleshooting.

[JohnWedell]

Yes, cap off the white (heat) wire. It must be capped off. Mine are black so in the bedroom I took a magic marker and blacked out the heat. So even if it he thermostat is on off or heat the AC will not work.