Hi I'm new here and appreciate any help. I wasn't comfortable guessing what goes where and the nearest licensed electrician that will come out any time soon is 30 miles away and they want $300 to reconnect the wires.
I had this setup in a previous garage. Qmark heater shown with subpanel shown. When I moved from that location 6 months ago, I removed the sub panel and the heater. In so doing, I cut the wires to separate the tstat from the conduit coming out of the heater (which I didn't install or wire originally).
I could have sworn I took a picture to show me where it all plugs into but I can't find that picture.
So the problem is I have flex coming out of the unit with 5 conductors, shown in one of the pictures.
1 thick black
1 thick red
1 thin black
1 thin white
1 bare ground
The conjoined breakers on the top right hand side of the sub panel (where there are no leads currently) is where the heater was connected and where I need to reconnect it. Of course, I want to use the thermostat.
If you look at the tstat, I believe the ground and the two thick (red and black) wires were cut at that point where the conduit entered the wiring box. What remains unaccounted for is the thin white and thin black. I can deduce that the thin white goes along that block on the right side but I don't know for sure. I also don't know if there are missing jumpers and I'm starting to think that there are missing pigtails that would lead from the breakers to the tstat but I just don't know. I seem to remember when the electrician came out to install the sub panel at the new location, he removed something and I remember thinking at the time "oh great now I'm not going to know what that was for" but that could have just been a dream but it doesn't make sense to me that a switch like a tstat would not also be connected to the breakers. In any case, the electrician didn't install the heater at the time just the subpanel.
That's where you come in. I'm just trying to figure out where to connect what and if I am missing something.
I had this setup in a previous garage. Qmark heater shown with subpanel shown. When I moved from that location 6 months ago, I removed the sub panel and the heater. In so doing, I cut the wires to separate the tstat from the conduit coming out of the heater (which I didn't install or wire originally).
I could have sworn I took a picture to show me where it all plugs into but I can't find that picture.
So the problem is I have flex coming out of the unit with 5 conductors, shown in one of the pictures.
1 thick black
1 thick red
1 thin black
1 thin white
1 bare ground
The conjoined breakers on the top right hand side of the sub panel (where there are no leads currently) is where the heater was connected and where I need to reconnect it. Of course, I want to use the thermostat.
If you look at the tstat, I believe the ground and the two thick (red and black) wires were cut at that point where the conduit entered the wiring box. What remains unaccounted for is the thin white and thin black. I can deduce that the thin white goes along that block on the right side but I don't know for sure. I also don't know if there are missing jumpers and I'm starting to think that there are missing pigtails that would lead from the breakers to the tstat but I just don't know. I seem to remember when the electrician came out to install the sub panel at the new location, he removed something and I remember thinking at the time "oh great now I'm not going to know what that was for" but that could have just been a dream but it doesn't make sense to me that a switch like a tstat would not also be connected to the breakers. In any case, the electrician didn't install the heater at the time just the subpanel.
That's where you come in. I'm just trying to figure out where to connect what and if I am missing something.
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