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[RSI]

That makes sense.

How often do you run into a system that does need the G wire to operate though? I bet most of the time just removing the wires from the G and splicing together would work fine.

[yoderheating]

95% of what I do is heat pumps so many do need a relay. When I do a gas or oil furnace I often do something different depending on the situation. I should mention doing this to a variable speed fan will only get you low speed.

[RSI]

Wow, never realized it was that much different in other parts of the country. Almost all LP or fuel oil forced air furnaces around here. Almost everything else is gas or oil boilers but they are way less common.

[yoderheating]

 I'm in Virginia where are you located?

[RSI]

Wisconsin

[yoderheating]

 Never mind, I see you are in Wisconsin. I'm sure you have much harsher winters. I most likely see about 95% heat pumps/electric furnaces, 2% gas furnaces, 2% oil furnaces and 1% oil or gas boilers. New homes around here are almost 100% heat pumps. I think this year I have only seen one boiler and one oil furnace so far, everything else has been heat pump.

[Scott7m]

Nearly the same in my area to, folks fail to realize it's to cold in this area for heat pumps and wind up paying out the wazoo