Wiring my blower to a EZ Touch relay

[gdo]

When I opened my EasyTouch panel to wire my new blower to a relay, I noticed a couple of relays had a wiring I could not make sense of. Here are the pictures:





I don't understand the purpose of this wiring: it seems #4 and #6 are being used to connect wires together irrespective of the relay state. Am I understanding this right? Can I free these relays by replacing this with 4 pigtails/Wago connectors?

I'd also like to make sure I understand how these relays work. Let's say I pick AUX 6. There's _one_ relay for AUX 6, which has 2 control wires at the top that determine whether the relay is closed or open: these are connected to the board in the low voltage section.

If closed, 2 and 4 are connected, and 6 and 8 are connected. If open, they are not connected.
The left (2 & 4) and right (6 & 8) sides are independent, meaning that you can't connect 6 to your breaker and 4 to your load, and expect that current will flow from 6 to 4 when the relay closes.

Is that the behavior I should expect?

So now for my blower, I was going to pick one free relay, wire power from a breaker to #2, and the hot wire from the blower to #4. Then neutral & grounds with their respective bars. Does that sound correct? (it's a 120V blower, not 240V)

Thank you again!

 

[Jimrahbe]

gdo,

It appears they are just using the pins as place to connect wires together as the relays contacts are not being used.

You can't use a 4 wire WAGO as not all 4 wires are connected together.

You can WAGO the two wires on pin 4 together, and the two wires on pin 6 together but not all 4 together.

You are correct in how the relays work.

Thanks,

Jim R.

 

[gdo]

gdo,

It appears they are just using the pins as place to connect wires together as the relays contacts are not being used.

You can't use a 4 wire WAGO as not all 4 wires are connected together.

You can WAGO the two wires on pin 4 together, and the two wires on pin 6 together but not all 4 together.

You are correct in how the relays work.

Thanks,

Jim R.

Thanks Jim.

It turns out that I didn't even have to use Wagos at all. These were pump wires that were going to a 240V breaker and they were long enough without needing any extension, so I was able to simplify the wiring by plugging the wires directly into the breakers rather than having an intermediate connection. That took out 4 wires from the panel. I'm not sure why they did that in the first place.

And... that freed up 2 relays, one of which I used to hook up the blower.
I also changed the name for the circuit as there is a "Air Blower" preset name, and it all works now (the name appears in the app as well).

Cheers everyone!