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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2014
Lennox Industries Inc., Richardson, TX (US);
Glenn Will Kowald, Carrollton, TX (US);
Darko Hadzidedic, Carrollton, TX (US);
Lennox Industries Inc., Richardson, TX (US);
Abstract
The disclosure provides, in one aspect, a method of starting a HVAC system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) receiving an initiation signal at a main system controller of the HVAC system, (2) determining if main controller application information associated with the main system controller is stored thereon, (3) querying an auxiliary controller of the HVAC system when determining the main controller application information is not stored on the main system controller, (4) sending the main controller application information to the main system controller from the auxiliary controller when the auxiliary controller includes the main controller application information, and (5) initiating the HVAC system based on the initiation signal and employing the main controller application information sent to the main system controller from the auxiliary controller.