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Jim Barnhart

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Fifty + years in Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning, Sheet Metal Manufacturing. Semi retired since 1995,

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Answer questions about , residential and commercial. Answer questions about sheet metal fabrication. Fifty years plus experience. No answers for oil equipment, No answers for kitchen appliances, No answers for laundry appliances.

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Hands on since 1950

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2009-11-05 Trane vs Rheem:

Sue, There are a hundred or so different brands of furnaces, each brand has about fifty or more model numbers which means about 5,000 furnaces. I don't have a library for researching makes and models

2009-11-05 heating unit:

John, I'm not sure what you mean by "gas blow up"? To me "blow up" means "explode" which can't be a good thing in a furnace. I'm going to assume that your talking about your burner doesn't light the

2009-11-05 coleman evcon furnace:

Justin, You didn't say that the blower worked when the thermostat was set to fan on. With the new information I have to revise my answer. Just to confirm, your saying that the blower doesn't work or

2009-11-05 coleman evcon furnace:

Justin, I'm not sure what your calling "the low speed fan"? Could it be the induced vent draft blower? If the vent fan starts and runs,and if the igniter glows and lights the burner then there is nothing

2009-11-04 Blower relay on airhandler:

Mike, If the the blower won't come on it could be the blower motor, the motor capacitor, the blower electric wiring, the blower relay, the thermostat, the transformer. In trying to diagnose the problem

 

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