Early Christmas present

[orezok]

Sometime last night, my furnace stopped working. Now heating with fireplace and portable electric heaters.

I swear I wasn’t naughty!

 

[ovrszd]

That's how my luck usually rolls.

 

[EddieWalker]

Sorry to hear that. What kind of furnace do you have in the Mojave Desert? Here in East Texas, 100% of my heating is done by wood stove.

 

[Thomas]

I must be on the list also but further down,6" snow and still falling so will the temps single numbers tonight below zero rest of the week.

 

[orezok]

Sorry to hear that. What kind of furnace do you have in the Mojave Desert? Here in East Texas, 100% of my heating is done by wood stove.

The kind of furnace you need when temperatures get down to as low as 12 degrees outside! Fortunately only 39 last night.

 

[orezok]

This isn’t my first experience. About 15 years ago on Thanksgiving day, the SWIMBO goes to put the turkey in the oven. Oven won’t heat. Dead! Transfers turkey to a large combo convection microwave we had. About 20 minutes later that quits. Ended up finishing the turkey in the RV.

 

[ovrszd]

The kind of furnace you need when temperatures get down to as low as 12 degrees outside! Fortunately only 39 last night.

Very few people realize that a Desert environment is very cold at night.

 

[Garandman]

The relay that turns on our furnace failed on a Saturday afternoon. If we hit it with a screwdriver it would latch, but wouldn稚 work once it shut off again. Dealer couldn稚 get the replacement on a weekend.

So we had a dance for the next couple days. After house would cool to 62-66ｰ we would manually activate it with the thermostat set to 72ｰ. We had a couple of auxiliary heaters so we didn稚 have to reset for 6-12 hours.

Ours was an electromechanical unit. New ones are solid state.

 

[RNeumann]

Q- can we come over to your place (eat your food, watch your tv and make a mess in your place and then leave)
A- sorry my heater is out- we will be over to your place in a few min though!

Frigging genius!!!!!

 

[2LaneCruzer]

As they say, the first guy doesn't have a chance. In the last two weeks: Computer died, $500 and counting. Furnace quit, $800. Hot water heater quit, $400 fix, new heater soon, price to be determined. Knock on wood.

 

[orezok]

OP here. Dodged a bullet. The furnace is a horizontal model mounted in the attic. Climbed up there and wiggled all the wires on the mother board. Also checked the door switch on the blower section as once before the door came loose and cut the power to the unit. I had put a screw in the door to hold it tight after that episode. I don't know which fixed it, but I put the door back on, tightened the screw and all is well again. :cool2::dance1:

 

[ovrszd]

A fine example of the KISS principle. Glad everything worked out for you!!!!

 

[bunyip]

Very few people realize that a Desert environment is very cold at night.

Even here in the outback you can get frost overnight in summer then a few hours later you fry.

 

[ovrszd]

Yep, very dry air can easily do that!! I've saw snow flakes in Iraq.