electric baseboard heater wiring?
Question by soup: electric baseboard heater wiring?
Can the power supply enter at the baseboard heater and then go to the thermostat? I plan to have a 12-2 power source enter at the heater, then an additional 12-2 wire from the baseboard to the thermostat. This would be wired similar to a light with the white wire running from the heater to the thermostat being hot in one direction or the other.
Can this be done with a double pole thermostat?
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Answer by alphadog
if the heater is 110 volts yes, if its 240 volts you need two
12/2 romex from the haeter to the t-stat to switch both hot wires.
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Depending on the heater that you bought or installed, they so make a thermostat that does install on the heater on either end of it. This would be your easiest installation. If you do install a thermostat at another location, you will need to run two sets of 12/2 romex.
From the heater to the T-stat, you will hook up the black to black and white to red.
From the T-stat to the heater, you will hook up the black to the remaining black and the white to the remaining red.
Always read the instructions to double check your work.
Good Luck!!!
It depends on the unit. How many amps? Less than 20? If so, the 12-2 will work. Usually a baseboard heater uses a single pole, line voltage, thermostat. So one wire of your source power goes to the thermostat, then a wire comes back from the thermostat. The other source wire and the wire from the thermostat connect to the two wires in your baseboard heater. This applies to both 120 volt and 240 volt applications. Look at the installation instructions to verify this.