Furnace malfunctioning
My furnace stopped coming on in the middle of the night, so I had to use the stove for awhile. I kept a fan on, and a small window open to vent any excess CO. Not an efficient way to heat. Later, ...
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turbojimmy wrote:Rmack1 wrote:
They have run into this problem with the Suburban furnaces before. They said they have a weak control board made in China that have been known to fail after six months. They are bringing a DynaSoar fan 50+ to replace it.
It's a shame but the furnaces in stick and brick houses have the same issue of cheap circuit boards. The relays are **** and the welds are shoddy. The same Chinese manufacturer makes them for most of the big brand name furnaces. My 5-year-old Goodman furnace failed recently (fan relay on the circuit board). Gone are the days where major appliances last decades.
I hope that control board fixes it for you!
It did!
It was the control board sure enough. I wonder how much they save by buying p.o.s. Chinese boards.
Another strange thing; the tech could not remove the propane elbow after removing the whole unit to let it slide out. It was starting to distort with a heavy leverage. He said he's never seen anything like it, and he's done hundreds of them.
We finally had to cut the metal casing to slide the unit out to get to the board.
He checked the electric and I had plenty of juice. It was all the board.
