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Re: Furnace problem

To: "Matt Wehland" <mattw@webtripper.com>, <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Furnace problem
From: "Scott Correa" <spektr@spektrproducts.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 08:21:11 -0600
Matt


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Wehland" <mattw@webtripper.com>
To: <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 7:27 AM
Subject: Re: Furnace problem


> > Symptoms were exhaust blower starting up, ignition starting to light and
then
> cutting off, to keep repeating.
> It was an intermittent failure, and the furnace would eventually fire up,
my
> folks wouldn't have caught it for a while until the furnace completely
died,
> except I was staying in the basement while at home and the furnace trying
to
> start and stopping was keeping me awake, so I started farting with it in
the
> middle of the night.


This is also a classic failure in the flame detection loop for RHEEM
furnaces.
They detect the flame presence by conductivity between the ignitor ceramic
and a ground.  As the ceramic ages, it loses its ability to keep the flame
relay
closed due to scale buildup.  The fix is a free kit adding a flame
probe.........

Scott Correa





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