Great night for the furnace to fail...

Don Plumley · Don Plumley's Garage

It's 40F forecast 28F - record cold.

Furnace won't ignite. It has the heater equivalent of an OBDI error code: 14 = Failure to ignite.

Brrrr. Good thing I've got plenty of wine...

rick-l · 01-13-2007, 10:16 PM

Does it light and go off?
If so steel wool off that flame detector.

No flame? Does the ignitor glow?

Hugh R · 01-13-2007, 10:56 PM

The gas probably froze in the pipe

My wife says its about 30 degrees outside of our house north of Los Angeles. Its about 75 and partly cloudy here in Auckland after four days of rain

Don Plumley · Don Plumley's Garage

I pulled the hot surface ignitor - the silicon carbide element has a crack clean through.

Now to find one on Sunday...

holtjv · 01-14-2007, 10:25 AM

don, eat some pasta; maybe fsm will help you out. separately, I watched ricky bobby nascar movie last night--absolutely hilarious, especially the baby jesus grace scene.

Joeaksa · 01-14-2007, 02:23 PM

Was down to 25 this morning when I woke up here in Phoenix. Thank God for fireplaces!

fingpilot · 01-14-2007, 05:10 PM

Here on the water in LaLaLand it got down to 49 last night. Sea temp was 66.

Was a rough night in the slip.

Joeaksa · 01-15-2007, 08:10 AM

Michael,

What do you have for heat on the boat? Gas heater?

Sea temp would help but still would be chilly...

Bill Verburg · Bill Verburg's Garage

Quote:

Originally posted by fingpilot
Here on the water in LaLaLand it got down to 49 last night. Sea temp was 66.

Was a rough night in the slip.

In similar situations I've found that lighting the oven, door open is effective at taking the chill off.

nineoneone · 01-15-2007, 09:25 AM

bring water to slow boil on stove......... moisture=heat.

jyl · jyl's Garage

My heating system stopped working last night, been flakey for awhile but now it won't turn on at all.

House was 53F this morning, unpleasantly chilly. 36F outside, around 25-28F at night. Have a little electric heater plugged into the living room outlet, trying to heat all 3300 sq ft of house - and faiing.

Furnace repair guy on his way. I went down to look at the furnace but couldn't make heads or tails of it, and considering it handles gas and electricity and runs unattended in the basement, decided not a suitable topic for DIY experimentation.

charlesbahn · charlesbahn's Garage

Try the thermocouple. Most hardware stores sell them in different lengths. The always fail after a few years and are simple to replace.