Why does your furnace have a pilot and an igniter? How does that work? I have an electronic igniter but that is because there is no pilot, the igniter lights the gas.
Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:33 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Furnace issue. > Just an informative note more than a question. > > On Tuesday evening, Teresa and I arrived home from work. As we started to > prepare dinner, Teresa mentioned that she was cold. I realized that it > was a bit chilly in the house so I went over to the spiffy talking > thermostat and punched the info button. It announced that the house > temperature was 63 degrees and the thermostat was set to 69 degrees. That > is a problem. > > I went to the basement and pulled the cover off the bottom of the furnace > and carefully slid my hand in, feeling for the heat of the pilot light. > Nothing. I also noticed that the igniter was going crazy clicking very > rapidly. I couldn't remember the process for lighting the pilot so called > Teresa down. She read the instructions off the side of the furnace which > included: > > Set thermostat below ambient temperature > Turn off power to the furnace > Turn off the gas via the little nobby job on the furnace > wait a few minutes. > Turn nobby thing to pilot > hold in button next to nobby thing and light the pilot with a match > Continue holding button for one minute > turn nobby thing to gas > Turn power to the furnace back on. > > Since Teresa was hovering over me, I put her to work and had her stick the > lit match in while I held the button. I'm pretty hairy and hair singes > remarkably easily. *GRIN* > > The igniter was still clicking away rapidly so I was suspicious of the > thermocouple but when I punched up the temp on the thermostat, the furnace > kicked on no problem. The igniter remained clicking but all seemed OK. > Teresa confirmed that the pilot was burning nice and blue. The furnace > was cycling on and off without a hitch, so we went to bed. > > Next morning all still seemed fine except that the igniter stopped > clicking like mad. Last evening we got home and the furnace was still > doing fine. > > Not sure what caused the pilot to go out, but all looks fine for now. > > Later. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > > Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From > Various List Members At The Following Address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.9/490 - Release Date: 20/10/2006 > To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following Address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
