TURTLE wrote:
"George E. Cawthon" wrote in message
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Greg O wrote:
"Tony Hwang" wrote in message
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JB Books wrote:
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I have a Carrier Gas Furnace Model #58GS050-2
When I turn the thermostat to Auto or Heat and call for heat, the
electronic ignition clicks, fires up but then nothing afterwards! I
let the pilot stay in this state for 5, 10, 15 minutes but the
furnace
never kicks in.
Do I have a faulty solenoid? Again, the pilot lights just fine.
Any help would be extremely appreciated.
Happy new year (brrrrrr)
-Izik
the problem is a dirty flame sensor. find the metal rod that is in
the pilot flame and sand it clean.
JB Books
Hi,
When sensor gets rusty, it does not work well. Remove it and gently
rub
off rust/dirt with fine grade sand paper or emery cloth and reinstall.
Furnace works on sequential logic(step by step), really no brainer.
1. Call for heat.
2. Ignite gas as main valve opens.
3. Sense the flame.
4. After buit-in delay, turn on the fan.
So seems like you're stuck in the step where it should sense the
flame.
Can't you read the error code off the control module? My Carrier
Weathermatic gives off error code by way of blinking LED on control
module.
HNY,
Tony
Tony
Tony, have you ever worked on a Carrier furnace model the OP has? I did
not
think so! You description is not even close!
Greg
Oh yeah. Pretty close to what the manual for my gas furnace
says. I would suspect that every 85 efficiency gas furnace
would have about the same sequence of events. He left out
starting the inductor fan and yes the ignition starts and
then the gas valve opens but the sequence is pretty damn
close. Some of you guys act like it's some kind of black
art that nobody but 20 year veterans can figure out.
Anybody that is reasonably smart and has mechanical
apptitude and reads the manual can figure it out, especially
if someone helps him with some of the arcane terminology.
This is Turtle.
Well , you and tony are on a wild goose chace of JB's . What your speaking
about the flame sencer being the problem. Well you can sand on it all you
want and it will do just about as much good as sanding on the tail pipe of
your car to help it start. Well there is two other parts that can cause this
problem and JB wants use to tell you what they are so he can use it as info
to creat trouble here on the newsgroup. We don't give trolls info and have
them use it to run their head about how smart they are. I will email the op
and discuss it but not to JB or yourself so JB can hear what it is. We don't
talk to tolls about info of the systems.
OH, Yea, It's a 58G and not a 58GH if your looking for similar numbers. The
58G is in the old style and 58GH is the new style. Two different horses or
dogs.
TURTLE
Hi Turtle:
I didn't say anything about a flame sensor, because I don't
know whether he has one or what kind of safety features it
has, I was just being very general. A flame sensor is
listed as one of the parts for my furnace, and I was
surprised at how much info there is.
Probably shouldn't say anything, but it yanks my chain the
way some people thing that other people can't and shouldn't
do anything for themselves. What I can accomplish in 3 hour
may be done in an hour or less by someone that is really
familiar and has done the same thing over and over. But why
not me? I took the carburetor apart on my first Harley and
cleaned it because I though it wasn't operating right. Sure
I put the choke in backwards (so it was partially choked all
the time). But the Harley Dealer didn't catch it when it
told him it idled a little rough, but I got at least 50
percent better gas mileage than before. I remember the
number, because my average speed and the gas mileage over a
400 mile trip were the same, 50. I asked two brothers on a
Matchless and an A.J. about the rough idle, so listened to
it for about 20 seconds, immediately knew what the problem
was and had the choke back in correctly in about 5 minutes.