Winter is setting in, and of course my Furnace is acting up.

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As if the price of oil isn't bad enough, It got in the 30's last night so i decided to turn the furnace on. Still had a 1/4 tank of oil from last season, so no need to bleed or anything, but after running for an hour or so i noticed the thermostat temp was still below what i had it set to. I go down to check, and theres a LOCKOUT water low on the Aquasmart controller. Tried to do a reset by holding the enter/reset button for 5 seconds but not resetting. I shut it off for a few hours and its working again but the lockout water low error is showing up intermittently and auto resetting. I turned it off for the night and will have to look into it tomorrow when i can watch it closely. I am leaning toward a faulty 2 in 1 low water/temp sensor. I don't think its a bad ground since nothing has changed in the 10 years ive had this furnace.
 
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My furnace went out during the coldest week of winter last year, while my wife was sick, on my birthday.
The thing is over 30 years old. We knew it was going soon. I had just hoped for better timing. Had to buy a new furnace. We had a home warranty. And they’re supposed to either replace it with something comparable, or give you market value in cash.
They of course changed the agreement wen we signed the last contract. So they gave us the option of either taking some piece of shit furnace they had warehoused, or covering 1/5 the cost of a new one.
We got a new one and replaced that AC too. Then we promptly cancelled the home warranty. The HVAC system was the whole reason we purchased that warranty and had been paying premiums for 9 years.
 
IDGETKTFO said:
As if the price of oil isn't bad enough, It got in the 30's last night so i decided to turn the furnace on. Still had a 1/4 tank of oil from last season, so no need to bleed or anything, but after running for an hour or so i noticed the thermostat temp was still below what i had it set to. I go down to check, and theres a LOCKOUT water low on the Aquasmart controller. Tried to do a reset by holding the enter/reset button for 5 seconds but not resetting. I shut it off for a few hours and its working again but the lockout water low error is showing up intermittently and auto resetting. I turned it off for the night and will have to look into it tomorrow when i can watch it closely. I am leaning toward a faulty 2 in 1 low water/temp sensor. I don't think its a bad ground since nothing has changed in the 10 years ive had this furnace.
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I took the sensor out and put it back in and it has been working fine. Was either a loose ground wire or the sensor wasn't seated correctly in the thermowell.
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You're not planning on rmoving away from the oil furnace anyways?
 
feel bad for those who live in extreme weather environments. i'd have to be making a whole lot of money to live in a place like that.
 
IIIIIIII said:
feel bad for those who live in extreme weather environments. i'd have to be making a whole lot of money to live in a place like that.
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Yeah, MN is trippy. We get as cold as -60, we can get well over 10ft of snow a year, then the blizzards and drifting is crazy. Then in the summer we can get up to 100 and are in tornado alley. Tell you what, taking my younger brother Trick-or-Treating in a blizzard was interesting. Loaded him and his friend into a sled and towed them around town.
 
I have no idea why you call it a furnace......what you melting in it?
 
IIIIIIII said:
feel bad for those who live in extreme weather environments. i'd have to be making a whole lot of money to live in a place like that.
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Everyone retires to Florida.

I plan to retire to my house in the UP of Michigan. I love extreme cold and snow.
 
Every winter someone goes 'and of course, my furnace is acting up right when it starts to get cold' like it's some crazy coincidence.

Yeah, you just turned it on. It didn't act up in the summer because you had it turned off...
 
Mine went out last year. Troubleshot it to a bad board. Went and got a new board. Put it in, same issue. Had a friend come over and look at it. He said it was a bad board so i went and got a second one and it worked so the brand new board was bad. Super frustrating.
 
you supposed to get your furnace serviced in fall and the AC in spring\\

welcome to reality kid
 
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