Kirill Belyayev Kirill Belyayev

Daisy Chain Guide

There are several people that asked us questions about Tandem or Daisy Chain installation.

What kind of install that is?

Say, you have 2 swamp cooler and 1 thermostat. Is it possible to use our product to wire 2 or more coolers to one smart thermostat?

Yes! Keep on reading about daisy chain installation!

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Airwave Watch out

After helping a client out, I had to put this Airwave topic into writing.

If you are using a different smart thermostat you might have a similar feature but under a different name.

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Installation Report

Last week, on July 4th I helped my friend Kyle to convert his swamp cooler. Similar story, he wanted to control it via Nest thermostat. So far I’ve sold a dozen or so boards. And people have been happy with the product so far. This particular scenario was not much different. The only thing I was there to help him out with the installation.

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3D Renderings

Apparently there is a way to share your online designs in 3D!

Really cool! Check this out!

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Assembling PCBs

At this point I manually assemble PCBs. Just during this beta stage.

It is important to keep customer feedback loop so we can refine the design. Once the design is proven and we are ready to move on to the production, the assembly process will be done by the machines.

So far we have handful of people that successfully installed our product!

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The G wire is not so G!

The G signal controls the fan. Your thermostat is capable of running the fan on its own without heating and cooling applied for the circulation. As long as you have this signal present and connected to the thermostat of course!

Traditionally the G signal is considered a cooling side signal. You might already see some problems here…

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Dual vs Single Transformer Setup

The Smart Swamp Cooler board comes with an option of disabling the cooling side transformer and making the system run of furnace transformer. Making it single transformer system!

Find out Pros and Cons in this post!

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