no heat

[jim hall]

Lately my heater has been giving me problems. It is a soloaire original
furnace - 1977 PB.
I took a short trip to charleston one evening and found that it would
run but not ignite. I reset it a few times and checked the gas and
connection - all ok, gas to valve. It had been working fine 2 nights
earlier. After hooking up to shore power - I tried it again - it worked
fine. Could a bad ground connection cause this. Had to us the generator
and a electric space heater. Even with the generator running it would
not run.
Anyone have this type of problem before.

Jim Hall
PB77 in Paradise

 

[mr.c]

Gene Fisher and I took out our solaire furnaces and cleaned and lubed the
motor. I also took out the head end and cleaned out the ceramic ignitor.
I found when I put it back together it didn't work. So much for my
cleaning. I looked at the plugs and found that one of the pins had
completely corroded. I replaced the plug with another set and it works
find. Hope this helps. I have a great deal of experience in taking them
out so if you need some additional information, let me know.

Al Chernoff
77 Eleganza II

> Lately my heater has been giving me problems. It is a soloaire original
> furnace - 1977 PB.
> I took a short trip to charleston one evening and found that it would
> run but not ignite. I reset it a few times and checked the gas and
> connection - all ok, gas to valve. It had been working fine 2 nights
> earlier. After hooking up to shore power - I tried it again - it worked
> fine. Could a bad ground connection cause this. Had to us the generator
> and a electric space heater. Even with the generator running it would
> not run.
> Anyone have this type of problem before.
>
> Jim Hall
> PB77 in Paradise