I thought I had the knowledge from experience in home projects, but this one has me just a little confused.
I have 5 seperate 36" long baseboard units to wire up to a double line break (220v line voltage) Mears M602 thermostat.
Reason for such short units is that there are many 110v outlets in this 14x25 enclosed sunroom and everything I read indicated, do not install below them.
SO....I have a 10/2, 220volt line with (2) 20 amp breakers coming from the svc. panel. I installed the thermostat in wall and ran seperate 10/2 lines thru wall. Someone said "Make sure you wire these units in parallel and thats where I have a little issue.
The baseboard units are 750watts each x 5 units for a total wattage of 3750. (very near max. wattage for the run)
My assumption is this for hooking them up and I would really appreciate your opinion in either confirming or discrediting my thoughts on hooking up.
Here goes: I run L1 and L2 from supply to 2 red wires on the thermostat. I come off the thermostat with two black wires and start the following by connecting those 2 black wires to the left side of 1st baseboard containing two black load wires. One goes into element and other goes to right side of heater.
I then bring in 2 black wires from 2nd units left side and wire them to 1st units right side (2) black wires.
Continue like this to the fifth unit. I am left with 2 black wires.
The thermostat diagram shows that my supply (L1 & L2) (from svc. panel) should go to two red leads on the thermostat and the two black wires off the other side of thermostat go to heater load.
As you can see from all that info above, I have not completed a loop back.
Do I leave the 5th units right side 2 black wires capped and have I just wired this thing in series instead of parallel.
Chuck