Cold!!!
This evening I came home and found RyanC running around with his socks on. I commented to wife "Was it cold today? Why is he wearing socks?" Then wife checked the temperature and noticed that we are at 65F instead of programmed setting. ARGH! The heater had stopped working and no one noticed!
We went downstairs to check on the heater and I couldn't find the pilot light, which was not too surprising since I am not much of a handyman. I did find a comment on the panel saying not to light the pilot light by hand so I probably couldn't do anything anyways. After fooling around with the on/off electrical switch for a while, I gave up when all the machine did was making a humming sound...
It's going to be a cold night since we are too cheap to pay the evening rate.... burrr~~
posted by CJ @ 7:59 PM
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4 Comments:
Your furnace can't possibly be old enough to have a pilot light, can it? I thought they stopped making pilot light furnaces in the 80's.
The instruction on the panel mentions pilot light though. It's a gas-based heater so I assume it needs fire turn to gas to heat? (isn't it like the water heater?)
Yes, but most furnaces feature pilot-less ignition. They have a sparker that lights the gas when the furnace comes on. That way, you don't have to have a flame all the time.
turns out that all we needed to do to restart the motor was manually rotate its little wheel inside the top panel... DOH! hm, we need to sell some options to pay for a new motor. :P
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