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mikeyg2347
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Topic: Furnace fan won't turn on Posted: 03 Jul 2022 at 6:24pm |
My furnace has decided to go on strike. When I turn on the thermostat nothing happens, no fan, nothing. It was working fine two weeks ago but now it's dead. Two years ago I replaced the t-stat with a 2-wire when I removed my air conditioner. It's always worked well until now. Wires are solidly connected to the thermostat. Any suggestions?
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offgrid
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04 Jul 2022 at 6:06am |
You can Google up the service manual which has a troubleshooting chart. But the troubleshooting protocol is to get out your trusty multimeter and check the stat, fuses, switch, etc to be sure you're getting 12V to the blower time delay relay. You can just jumper around the tstat if you want to for test purposes.
If you are getting 12V to the time delay relay but the TDR isn't closing to provide 12V to the blower then replace it. Otherwise the problem would have to be the blower motor itself. Good luck and please let us know what the problem and fix were. |
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mikeyg2347
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04 Jul 2022 at 8:59am |
Thanks. Electrical is not my forte, but I will forge ahead. Probably a few days before I can get to it, but I will let you know what I find.
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mikeyg2347
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04 Jul 2022 at 11:22am |
I just tried it again out of curiosity, and, you guessed it, it came right on. I suppose it's going to work perfectly until late September when I'll be fishing up some remote high elevation Forest Service road and it will puke again.
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Mike
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Colt
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04 Jul 2022 at 4:17pm |
Next time it doesn't want to run, bump, slap, kick it. If that makes it run, you likely have a bad spot in the commutator, or open winding in the armature of the motor.
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mikeyg2347
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04 Jul 2022 at 5:09pm |
All of those strategies are within my skill set. Thanks.
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offgrid
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Jul 2022 at 6:06am |
The furnace didn't originally go into lockout mode did it? To get out of lockout you have to turn the stat all the way off (or otherwise remove power), then back on, just turning up the temp setting won't do it.
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mikeyg2347
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Jul 2022 at 9:09am |
I don't think so. I was turning the stat all the way off when it wasn't working. The big difference is that I had driven home and I'm wondering if the bumps and vibrations are what got it going again. It's still working this morning.
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mikeyg2347
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Jul 2022 at 10:55am |
Offgrid, your comment about lockout got me thinking, so I found the manual and went through the trouble shooting guide. I ran out of propane the 2nd day of our trip and I'm wondering if the low gas tank had moisture in it (I was using up last year's propane) which, according to the guide, might make it go into lockout. I had a spare bottle of fresh propane, but if the old gas was still in the line at the furnace maybe it stayed in lockout until the moisture was somehow purged? Not sure what the mechanism for that would be, but it makes sense to me. (Not that making sense to me is significant.)
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jato
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Jul 2022 at 1:04pm |
After going through numerous cylinders of propane with our 177 over the past 11+ years I do not think this would be a valid reason for what you encountered. As your tank empties (hence furnace doesn't fire up) and you remove the tank from the line, any gas in the system will escape into the atmosphere.
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