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 More options Oct 2 2012, 2:06 pm
From: Mrspeed <mrspeed...@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:02:31 -0500
Local: Tues, Oct 2 2012 2:02 pm
Subject: Re: [MakerSpace] Can I ask a tech question on a heating-A/C unit here?

Yes,
Rich

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rod...@rodneydickman.com wrote:
>LG:  LA120HSV2

>My plan was never to use this LG mini split wall unit for heat but in
>looking for a way to A/C the sun room I am building I found they are also
>heat pumps so I want to use the heat feature. I have a 24 volt DC
>controlled hot water heated floor (in the concrete poured floor) in my sun
>room (uses a heat exchanger and my house water heater - simple and neat).
>The heated floor is in now.

>  LG offers an add on circuit board (PQDSBC) (I can email a copy of the
>booklet if need be) for this LG unit - is there anyway to control an
>external relay so when the LG unit is making heat the LG unit provides a DC
>current to close a relay? Or a way to get a signal off that board to
>somehow power another circuit board (which I can make if need be) to then
>close a relay? Or a way to get a signal off the LG unit (LA120HSV2) so when
>it is providing heat I can control the floor heat with a relay or? This
>would require 2 thermostats and that would be OK with me. The heated floor
>would be set at maybe 65 degrees on a 24 volt Honeywell mercury type
>thermostat. The LG unit would be set lower than 65 degrees on its digital
>LG direct wired wall thermostat so it does not run on cold days. The in
>floor heating would keep the room at 65 degrees but it is very slow to
>bring the room warmer. To heat up the room quickly just raise the LG
>thermostat and every time the LG provides heat the pump for the heated
>floor would also run keeping the floor warm. You would have 2 heat sources
>running simultaneously when you raise the temp over 65 degrees. You would
>run wires in parallel to the Honeywell thermostat. When you turn the LG
>unit down the in floor system maintains the room at 65 degrees and the LG
>unit does not run.If I can not do this every time I raise the LG unit for
>heat the in floor heat would shut off as it would be set at 65 degrees. Had
>a known this earlier I would have put a PVC tube in the floor so I could
>put a probe in the cement in the heated floor. I have not yet tiled the
>floor so I could still install a probe under the tile.
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