Wow, I have heat.

SeaCat

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Wow, I finally have the Central Heating system in my place fixed and back together. It's going to take a bit to get used to haveing heat in all sections of the trailer and not just in the front room.

Cat
 
Wow, I finally have the Central Heating system in my place fixed and back together. It's going to take a bit to get used to haveing heat in all sections of the trailer and not just in the front room.

Cat

After the amount of effort you've put into it, you deserve the warmth.
 
Glad you got it going again... as a fellow do it yourselfer, I can testify there is nothing more aggravating than waking up in the middle of the night and seein your breath as your running to check the furnace. The night Im talking in this case involved a failed blower motor and run capacitor. I was quoted a price of 360 bucks for the motor alone, plus whatever labor it would have taken to put it in (i think he quoted me 50 an hour). I went to a local electrical shop... they got the motor and run cap. for 65 bucks, same day. I put it in and its running like a charm.
So, I just have to say its good to hear that you got it going again.
 
Glad you got it going again... as a fellow do it yourselfer, I can testify there is nothing more aggravating than waking up in the middle of the night and seein your breath as your running to check the furnace. The night Im talking in this case involved a failed blower motor and run capacitor. I was quoted a price of 360 bucks for the motor alone, plus whatever labor it would have taken to put it in (i think he quoted me 50 an hour). I went to a local electrical shop... they got the motor and run cap. for 65 bucks, same day. I put it in and its running like a charm.
So, I just have to say its good to hear that you got it going again.

LOLOL

When I was first married my wife and I lived in a Four By. (A two story building with four apartments. Two on the ground floor and two on the upper floor.) Heat and Hot Water were provided by a single unit in the crawl Space under the building. A crawl Space that was overly well ventilated. Every gust of wind blew out the Pilot Light which shut down the entire system. (Losing electricity did the same thing.)

After about a month of losing Hot Water I crawled down there and checked out the system. I got the numbers and found a schematic. After talking with my father we came up aith a couple of ideas.

The first thing I did was cut down a coffee can so it shielded the Pilot Light. This stopped it from being blown out. Then I built a circuit board that I could easily wire in that would power the system using a 12 Volt Car Battery to power the system when the power went out.

When the pwer went out I had to crawl under the building with the cicuit board and a car battery and hook it in. That Circuit Board saved our butts that winter and for the next few winters as we lost power on a regular basis. (Every time a storm blew in.) I ended up with several spare batteries and could charge them either from my car or from my parents generator when I could get over there.

Cat
 
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