On 12/21/2004 6:02 AM HvacTech2 wrote:

Hi Mike, hope you are having a nice day

On 20-Dec-04 At About 00:00:01, Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott wrote to All
Subject: Turbine in my furnace?

MRJSE From: "Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
MRJSE j.michael.elliottAT@REMOVETHEOBVIOUSad elphiaDOT.net


MRJSE The inducer fan's noise is not audible through the ducting. It comes
MRJSE right out of the closet. Which has a louvered door. Exactly NOT the
MRJSE kind of door I'd choose to use for sound-isolating.

The louvered door is to allow for combustion air and is needed.

The whole door -- floor-to-ceiling -- is louvered. I'm used to seeing
hollow-core doors with louvered vents a couple square feet in area near
the bottom. Given how noisy the inducer blower is, a door that is 50%
air might not be the best course. The furnace closet is on concrete slab
and not adjacent to any outside walls; if it were not, I would consider
giving it a new burner air inlet and putting a solid door on the closet
to reduce the inductor-blower noise in the house.

So what's the point of the inducer blower? Never had one on any other
natural gas forced-air furnace I've lived with.

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR