House ac wiring diagram. Tim uses the interactive wiring diagrams in. Household wiring design has two 120 volt hot wires and a neutral which is at ground potential. The image below is a house wiring diagram of a typical us. Or canadian circuit showing examples of connections in electrical boxes and at the devices mounted in them.
If you were to gut an air conditioner and disconnect all the wires you could use this video as a template to wire it all back up. Electricity flows through the hot wire to a device or power receptacle and back through the neutral wire. The ground wire is meant to dispel any extra charge using the earth as the dispeller. Usually the electrical wiring diagram of any hvac equipment can be acquired from the manufacturer of this equipment who provides the electrical wiring diagram in the users manual see fig1 or sometimes on the equipment itself see fig2.
Unique gm ac wiring diagram. The two 120 volt wires are obtained by grounding the centertap of the transformer supplying the house so that when one hot wire is swinging positive with respect to ground the other is swinging negative. Aug 8 2019 gm ac wiring diagram. A wiring diagram is a simplified traditional pictorial depiction of an electric circuit.
Note some ac systems will have a blue wire with a pink stripe in place of the yellow or y wire. Air conditioning ac contactor control board 1 this diagram is to be used as reference for the low voltage control wiring of your heating and ac system. When wiring to supply power you are creating an electrical circuit. Always refer to your thermostat or equipment installation guides to verify proper wiring.
How to wire an hvac ac unit. A continuous circuit consists of a hot wire a neutral wire and a ground. Gm alternator wiring schematic. This is a video for a straight air.
It shows the components of the circuit as simplified shapes and the power and signal connections between the devices. Collection of central air conditioner wiring diagram.