The hvac controller design mentioned in this post has been updated with a new schematic and board design. I drew a schematic by hand and then asked another member of the team to create the design in Eagle. The plan is to have a local company create the board for us from the design.
Reviewing the Eagle schematic helped me to fix an error I made in the original hand drawn schematic. You can see below that the terminal block side of the relays should be connected to the 24 VAC wire, not the 3.3V line from the power board.
The hvac controller serves to turn on and off the heat, ac, and fan system in a house. The hardware for this project consists of the following:
- ESP8266 WiFi board: Periodically retrieves a new heater/ac/fan state from its API online which it uses to control the relays.
- Solid state relays: Turn on and off the heater/ac/fan by shorting their respective wires to the 24 V AC power line. The relays turn on when the esp8266 digital lines are asserted.
- Terminal blocks: Provide connection between the PCB and the HVAC wiring.
- Power board: Converts 24V AC from the hvac transformer to 3.3V DC to power the esp8266. A simplified version the doorbell power supply.
Hand drawn schematic of hvac controller with erroneous connections between the 3.3V line and relays
HVAC Schematic
HVAC full view board design
HVAC top view board design
HVAC bottom view board design
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