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Stumped! Heil furnace.
I've got a 15 yr old heil furnace with issues. The fan kicks on, the glow igniter turns on, the pilot lights, but the main burner will not kick on. The gas valve is a year old and the igniter kit is 5 minutes old. I replaced it because it made since that that might be the problem.(but its not) any help would be appreciated.
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I just checked a switch where the rubber hose hooks up and I am getting infinite ohms. Should I be or is that a bad safety switch?
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if pilot lights as you have indicated then iot could be that the flame sensor is not positioned properly to sense the pilot flame ..it should be positioned to have tip in flame and be close to ground/metal area of the sensor bracket..also could be touching metal somewhere thereby shorting the sensor out to ground OR cracked insulator allowing short
OR bad board? |
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did you check for 24 volts at gas valve?..if there is then as stated ..gas valve faulty
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A harness from the igniter to the gas valve sounds like a Smart Valve with all its attendent pin connection problems.
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yes they had problems with there pin to gas valve connection ..smartvalve...try to jiggle connector when pilot is lit and calling for burnner to fire....but you said valve is only 1 yr old so i doubt if you have the old style valve...ben sr
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Yes it could be the valve or the board! It's just that possible valve system gives us all so many problems.
If you give us the make & number of your gas valve or better yet post a picture of it, the answers will be more helpful. |
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Hopefully this works. Here's a pic
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I feel like I have tested everything. But not sure I am testing the gas valve correctly.
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ignition control is part of gas valve.Double check ignitor/sensor is mounted in pilot assy properly.I had one that was not setting properly due to c clip not installed right, and flame sensor was touching pilot hood.Pilot would lite but no main valve.Repositioned correctly and furnace took off.
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could you take off ignitor an get us a picture of it ....the wire from gas valve to ignitor looks odd... i had a tempstar i put a universial ignitor kit it went to pilot like your's ...put on oem ignitor did the trick...ben sr
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