CT200 INSTALLATION GUIDE Table Of Contents Getting Started Interior View Installation Location Wiring Mounting Plate Prepare Wires Connecting Wires Power Supply Setup Include device to a Z-Wave network Power Supply Wiring Diagrams Detailed Wire Diagram Step By Step Wiring Diagrams...
Vivint Element CT200 Installation Guide Getting Started Tools Needed Small Phillips screwdriver Drill with ¼" bit (6 mm) CAUTION To avoid electrical shock and to prevent damage to the furnace, air condi- tioner, and thermostat, disconnect the power supply before installing or...
Vivint Element CT200 Installation Guide Getting Started Interior View Unit Back and Mounting Plate Wire terminals Up Button Unit Front Screen Side Button Down Button Bottom Edge Light...
Vivint Element CT200 Installation Guide Getting Started Installation Location To avoid having to move your wiring to a new location, mount the thermostat in place of the old thermostat • Install the thermostat on an inside wall of an often-used room, about 5 ft.
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Vivint Element CT200 Installation Guide Wiring Preperation CAUTION • Read instructions carefully before removing any wiring from an existing thermostat • Label all wires before disconnecting them form the existing thermostat 1. Switch off electricity to the heating and cooling systems. This can...
Vivint Element CT200 Installation Guide Wiring Attaching the Mounting Plate to the wall 1 Carefully pull the labeled wires through the center hole in the mounting plate 2 Position thermostat for best appearance to cover the hole in the wall 3 Mark first and drill a ¼...
Vivint Element CT200 Installation Guide Prepare Wires Wiring Make sure your wires are labeled. If necessary, find the “other end” connection for each wire on your heating or air conditioning equipment and note the label there 1 Fan out wires so that they are aligned with their terminals...
Vivint Element CT200 Installation Guide Connecting Your Wires Wiring Reference the Detailed Wire Diagram on page 23 to identify your wiring diagram and set-up information If necessary, contact customer support for help 1 Connect a labeled wire only to a matching lettered terminal...
Vivint Element CT200 Installation Guide Wiring Power Supply While the thermostat can run without batteries on C-wire power, you should install batteries as well to provide power to the unit during outages See the Thermostat Battery Cautions 1 Install four (4) AA alkaline batteries following the marked polarity in the battery compartments.
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Vivint Element CT200 Installation Guide Wiring THERMOSTAT BATTERY CAUTIONS • Always use new Alkaline batteries • Do not use rechargeable batteries of any type They will not operate the thermostat properly and may lead to damage • Do not mix old and new batteries •...
Vivint Element CT200 Installation Guide Setup You must add the Thermostat to a Z-Wave network This unit cannot operate without a network connection Include the Thermostat to a Z-Wave Network ® The Vivint Element Thermostat is a Z-Wave compliant thermostat ®...
Vivint Element CT200 Installation Guide Setup Z-Wave and Power Supply The Thermostat’s node type is fixed when it is included to the Z-Wave network; if the C-Wire is not connected and is only battery-powered when including to the network, the...
Vivint Element CT200 Installation Guide Wiring Diagrams Detailed Wiring Diagrams 3 Wire Heat 4 Wire Heat 5 Wire Heat/Cool 6 Wire Heat/Cool WIRES WIRES WIRES WIRES C W R C W R G C W Y R G C W Y RH RC G...
Vivint Element CT200 Installation Guide Wiring Diagrams Step-By-Step Wiring Diagrams 3 Wire Heat GAS MILLIVOLT or HVAC SYSTEM 24VAC System POWER 1 Connect the R (or RH) wire to the RH terminal This connects the heat power C B O W...
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6 If available, connect the C wire to the C terminal 7. Go to “Connect Your Wires” on page 9. Multi-stage Heat & Multi-Stage Cool The CT200 can handle up to 2 HVAC SYSTEM stages of HEAT and 2 stages of...
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5 If available, connect the C wire to the C terminal 6. Go to “Connect Your Wires” on page 9. Multi-stage Heat Pump with Multi-Stage Aux Heat HVAC SYSTEM The CT200 can handle up to 2 AUX1 AUX2 POWER stages of Pump compression and 2...
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Normal with Heat Type = Gas • USE ONLY IN HEAT MODE • The CT200 must be powered by 24v ac The third wire on your valve may be called 6, Y, or G (see the Wire Reference Table on page 23...
Vivint Element CT200 Installation Guide Wiring Diagrams Wire Reference Table Possible What They Control Wires R or V or VR RH and RC Single power for HEAT and COOL RH or 4 RH Power for HEAT (RH not connected to RC jumper clip...
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Vivint Element CT200 Installation Guide Wiring Diagrams Lennox Heat Pump V or VR or R RH Power for HEAT M or Y Y COOL control Y or W or W2 W2 2nd stage HEAT F or G G Fan control...
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Chapter OPERATION GUIDE CT200 Section Title Table Of Contents Product Overview Home Screen Outside Temp Screen Fan Timer Screen Settings Screen Compressor Protection Customization Units Humidity Display Info Installer Equipment HVAC and Heat Settings Other Device Information Low Battery Warning...
Vivint Element CT200 Operation Guide Product Overview Home Screen Mode Target Temp Room Temp This is the default screen on the Thermostat Anytime the unit wakes from sleep (or senses you approaching, if the sensor is enabled), the screen lights up and displays the system’s mode (top), the target...
Vivint Element CT200 Operation Guide Product Overview Outside Temp Screen This screen displays the outside temperature and inside humidity (in %) To see this screen, press the SIDE button twice Fan Timer Screen This screen enables you to change fan operation (auto/on/15 min/30...
Vivint Element CT200 Operation Guide Product Overview Z-Wave and Thermostat Programs The Thermostat must be included on a Z-Wave network in order to operate Use your Z-Wave application to adjust the heating and cooling programs that the Thermostat uses to run your system...
Vivint Element CT200 Operation Guide Customization The Settings screen provides access to many features and settings of the Thermostat Features you can control on the Settings screen are ºF / ºC display, humidity targets, display behavior, information about the Thermostat, and installer settings The following pages provide...
Vivint Element CT200 Operation Guide Customization Info Information about the Thermostat device includes: The power supply the unit is currently using (batteries, Power C-wire, and/or transformer) How much battery power is currently left, if batteries Battery: are installed in the unit...
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Vivint Element CT200 Operation Guide Customization COMFORT Comfort settings enable you to control: Offsets the unit’s temperature display Calibration: This feature enables you to set the acceptable variance in Cycling: temperature between the Thermostat’s setting and the current room temperature before the heating or cooling system will turn on The Cycling range can be from 0 5 to 4 0F ( 25 to 2C) For example, if Cycling is set to 2 0°F...
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Installer: Comfort Cont. Vivint Element CT200 Operation Guide Customization Staging 1 From the Home screen, press and hold the SIDE button for three (3) seconds 2 Press DOWN to highlight Installer, then press the SIDE button 3 Press DOWN to highlight Comfort, then press the SIDE button...
Vivint Element CT200 Operation Guide Customization Equipment Selecting Heat Pump Settings Selecting HVAC & Heat Types 1 From the Thermostat's Home 1 From the Thermostat’s Home screen, press and hold the screen, press and hold the SIDE button for 3 seconds...
Vivint Element CT200 Operation Guide Customization Selecting Cooling Type Selecting Humidity Settings 1 From the Thermostat’s Home 1 From the Thermostat’s Home screen, press and hold the screen, press and hold the SIDE button for 3 seconds The SIDE button for 3 seconds The...
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Vivint Element CT200 Operation Guide Customization Test Installation If you have a heat pump, leave the Thermostat in Off mode for 4 (four) minutes before checking Cool Do not operate AC if the outside temp is below 65°F To Check Heat...
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Vivint Element CT200 Operation Guide Customization To Check Cool 1 From the Thermostat’s Home A test of a successfully screen, press and hold the functioning cooling system SIDE button for 3 seconds will show a drop in the The Settings menu opens...
Vivint Element CT200 Operation Guide Customization Other Device Information Low Battery Warning The Thermostat displays this screen when the batteries are running low on charge and should be replaced This screen will only display once per day the first time the...
Vivint Element CT200 Operation Guide Customization Factory Reset Use this procedure only in the event that the network primary controller is missing or otherwise inoperable 1 From the Home screen, press and hold the SIDE button for three (3) seconds...
Chapter OPERATION GUIDE CT200 Section Title Z-WAVE REFERENCE ® Radio Thermostat...
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Vivint Element CT200 Operation Guide Z-Wave ® Z-Wave Reference ® The Thermostat can work in the same network with any other certified Z-Wave device, regardless of manufacturer/vendor. See your specific Z-Wave® controller’s User Manual for detailed instructions on operating your thermostat through the network...
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Vivint Element CT200 Operation Guide Z-Wave ® Advanced Z-Wave Information ® The Thermostat supports compliant mapping of the Z-Wave ® BASIC_COMMAND_CLASS to the CT thermostat “Energy Saving” and “Comfort Mode” as follows: • Basic Set (Value = 0x00) = Set Energy Saving Mode •...
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Vivint Element CT200 Operation Guide Z-Wave ® Configuration Parameters This device supports the following Configuration Parameters: Name Set/Get Default Values Temp Reporting Threshold Set/Get 0 to 4 HVAC Settings Get Only see below Utility Lock Enable/Disable Set Only 0 to 127...
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Vivint Element CT200 Operation Guide Z-Wave ® Configuration Parameters Cont. 1. Temperature Reporting Threshold (8-bit) This value determines the reporting threshold when association reporting is enabled Unsupported values are ignored Value Treshhold Disabled Disabled 0 5°F 1 0°F 1 5°F 2.
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Vivint Element CT200 Operation Guide Z-Wave ® Configuration Parameters Cont. 8. Thermostat Diff Temp The thermostat differential temperature is in units of 0.5 degrees Fahrenheit. A value of 0x04 is 2.0F and 0x06 is 3.0F. The differential temperature must be an integer value Non-integer values, such...
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Vivint Element CT200 Operation Guide Z-Wave ® Configuration Parameters Cont. • Scale (2-bits) The scale field indicates the temperature scale used: 0 indicates Celsius and 1 indicates Fahrenheit • Bound Size (3-bits) The size field indicates the number of bytes used for the temperature filter value.
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Vivint Element CT200 Operation Guide Customization Configuration Parameters Cont. The thermostat will report ambient temperature changes for temperature values greater than the upper bound. This field must be between 0F and 124F By default, this value is 0F (report all temperature changes) 11.
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• Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver • Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected • Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help Radio Thermostat...
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