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Default Furnace runs but have to manually restart

The only asshole here is the one handing out wrong advice
about furnaces.

Everyone else is merely trying to get you to STFU, a skill you
seem to lack.


On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:10:41 -0500, "1991 Z28"
wrote:

You should know that I don't "know much" about furnaces but if it did have
the flame sensor the gentleman could have possibly fixed it himself. Its NO
reason to be such an asshole.
"richard p dawson" wrote in message
...
you are clueless sir, not on an 18 year old lennox.
where did you get this info?
Alt.home.repair ?




1991 Z28 wrote:

There is a sensor around the top of the burners usually held in by one

screw
with a wire hooked up, remove the wire remove the sensor, clean with

steel
wool or fine sand paper and replace.
"J. Jorgensen" wrote in message
om...
I'm having a problem with my furnace that I hope someone can shed some
light on. The furnace will run and then usually get to the desired
temperature set by the T-stat and stop. Then when the T-stat thinks
it should run again the the T-stat will show that the furnace is
running (it's an electronic T-stat), but the furance will not kick on.
If I am near the furnace, I can only hear a real faint buzzing sound
(which goes away if I shut the power off to the furnace). If I either
turn the T-stat off and on a few times or turn the power to the
furnace off and then on, the furnace will usually kick on (until the
next go around).

It seems to be a furance issue and not a T-stat issue, but I'm looking
for some help. Unless it is something really easy to fix, I plan on
calling a repairman, but I would still like to be knowledgable of the
problem beforehand.

It is a forced air Lennox furnce about 18 years old. I will mention
too that it started doing this a couple of days ago soon after I used
the electrical outlet on the furnace to power a shop vac (I rarely use
this outlet -- and I don't know if this would be related anyway).

Thanks.

Jim





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