Long story short - bought a house in July that needed work.
The HVAC system was installed in 2014 and is a Nortek electric 2.5 ton SEER system. When we moved in, we had a hard time figuring out the AC programming. It would constantly return to a set schedule regardless of how I programmed it, and the blower fan seemed to run continuously. So I said fuck it and bought a honeywell wifi thermostat. That solved the programming issue, but now that the heat pump is turning on I am running into a similar issue with the blower fan running almost constantly.
The reason I am posting is this; although it runs constantly, I am noticing that it will suddenly turn off, and then immediately turn back on in a span of 3 seconds. But I can hear a click from the thermostat, so I don't know if it is the thermostat telling it to turn off and then it immediately turns back on, or what is happening. I took pictures and labeled the thermostat wires and installed them how they were, but maybe the wiring was wrong to begin with? In any case I can't afford continuous high electric bills and I dont want to have an hvac guy come out if it is something I can fix myself. What can I do to troubleshoot?
Editing to add: After standing in front of my thermostat, here is what I am seeing. It switches off when switching from "heat on" to "Auxiliary heat".It will then switch off temoprarily from "auxiliary heat" to heat on mode. Temperature outside is mid 30's. Maybe it is working how it is supposed to? My question would then be why is it switching modes so frequently?
Update:I have a nordyne jt4bd-30k heat pump 2.5 ton.
So I have today to get this figured out. I have the thermostat off of the wall and am going to try to fix it.
There are 7 wires total- a red and a white wire are in a jacket together, separate from the other 5. The colors of the 5 remaining wires are green, blue, white, yellow and red.
The yellow wire is in the y2 slot - which I do not think is correct because I do not have a 2 stage system. The remove tab broke off so the yellow wire is in the y2 slot. so I can cut it out if I dont need it.
Any assistance would be appreciated.