Furnace with over-active igniter
After years of lurking, I have finally come up with an issue that I have to post my own thread for! I have a furnace that in the past couple days has decided to continue to click (sounds like the...
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The OP is a FT'er who has lived in his rig for awhile. I'm guessing that he is hearing something that is not normally what he's heard before. Implying there is a problem, and not just some safety feature kicking in. He would have heard that a hundred times before.
IMO, it is electrical, and more then likely a bad connection somewhere. The connection is telling the furnace to shut down then the connection becomes active again and tells the furnace to keep running.
The reason I thought the thermostat is because I'm thinking the points in the thermostat are bad, a bad thermostat wire, or the thermostat is so old it reacts too quick when it hits the on/off temperature.
Of course it can be many other things also. Might be a dirty connection on the board, gas solenoids, or somewhere else.
IMO, it is electrical, and more then likely a bad connection somewhere. The connection is telling the furnace to shut down then the connection becomes active again and tells the furnace to keep running.
The reason I thought the thermostat is because I'm thinking the points in the thermostat are bad, a bad thermostat wire, or the thermostat is so old it reacts too quick when it hits the on/off temperature.
Of course it can be many other things also. Might be a dirty connection on the board, gas solenoids, or somewhere else.
