Connecting the K Wire on the Nest Thermostat

In this short blog entry I will explain where to insert the K Wire on the Nest Thermostat.

First off what is the Nest Thermostat for those who are unaware – Nest Labs is a home automation producer of programmable, self-learning, sensor-driven, Wi-Fi-enabled thermostats, smoke detectors, and other security systems. It introduced the Nest Learning Thermostat in 2011 as its first product. – Wikipedia on Nest Labs

So here we go a few weeks ago I purchased a Nest Thermostat for the family, however I ran into an issue on where to connect the K Wire that was labeled on my Honeywell Digital Thermostat.

After much troubleshooting and following the guide via the Nest Thermostat Manual for more information I decided to call Nest regarding this. They asked me to email them over a picture of above to them and after doing so they kindly said that my Nest Thermostat would not be compatible with my home and they deeply apologized.

I mentioned to Nicole that I was pretty sure that the K Wire needed to be inserted into the Y1 or Y2 slot of the Nest Thermostat and for validation I decided to do a YouTube Search regarding this. Great success, I was able to find this really simple video (no illustrations) that stated that all you needed to do is to insert the K Wire from into the Y1 slot of the Nest Thermostat. Check out the video below.

Where to Connect the K wire on your Nest thermostat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTDRQNpGi1c

So after doing this the Nest Thermostat has been installed and everything has been working flawlessly!