Have a friend who's been without his forced air furnace since Thanksgiving. It's been a nightmare just crawling from the garage ceiling opening to the back end of the house where the furnace is located. There's messy blown in insulation covering the ceiling joists, and the joists change directions 1/2 way down. I spanned the areas I needed to crawl on with some OSB.
On my first trip a few weeks ago, I discovered a roof leak dripping ever so slightly on the 60 amp circuit breaker installed on the unit. Not terribly bad, so to check it, I had Wayne go turn off the main breaker. After he did that, I flipped this double furnace mounted breaker off and on 15 or 20 times. I had him turn on the main breaker again and the furnace came back to life.
I climbed back out of there and cleaned up. Later, when the room got up to temperature, the heater clicked off........ Temporary fix I figured.
......however the heater would not come back on.
I had time a week later to go back over to check it out again, this time with a tape measure, note pad and my phone (camera) to take notes and study the odd breaker. It's called a panel mount lug to lug breaker. It's mounted onto the sheet metal inside the furnace. The load and line wires are screwed onto the terminals.
Ok, since I was up there I flipped the breaker off and on again about 20 times. He turned on the main breaker and the furnace came to life once again........ Like the first time, once it shut off, it never kicked back on.
I spent a lot of time on line searching for this old 1979 60 amp GE breaker.
The fella gave me his credit card number and asked me to order it. It came from back east and took about a week. I got it put in today and got the fiberglass intake 'plenum' box fit "more better" than it was. It had a huge gap on all 4 sides so it was sucking in some cold attic air.
So now, the furnace is working, but the fiberglass outlet/distribution box on the opposite end of the furnace needs to be sealed up too. Horrible gap in that connection also.
The highs and lows in temperatures have been like 38 to 42 for the past few days. Brrrrr..... especially with no heat.
Here's a few pics including the old and new breaker.
On my first trip a few weeks ago, I discovered a roof leak dripping ever so slightly on the 60 amp circuit breaker installed on the unit. Not terribly bad, so to check it, I had Wayne go turn off the main breaker. After he did that, I flipped this double furnace mounted breaker off and on 15 or 20 times. I had him turn on the main breaker again and the furnace came back to life.
I climbed back out of there and cleaned up. Later, when the room got up to temperature, the heater clicked off........ Temporary fix I figured.
......however the heater would not come back on.
I had time a week later to go back over to check it out again, this time with a tape measure, note pad and my phone (camera) to take notes and study the odd breaker. It's called a panel mount lug to lug breaker. It's mounted onto the sheet metal inside the furnace. The load and line wires are screwed onto the terminals.
Ok, since I was up there I flipped the breaker off and on again about 20 times. He turned on the main breaker and the furnace came to life once again........ Like the first time, once it shut off, it never kicked back on.
I spent a lot of time on line searching for this old 1979 60 amp GE breaker.
The fella gave me his credit card number and asked me to order it. It came from back east and took about a week. I got it put in today and got the fiberglass intake 'plenum' box fit "more better" than it was. It had a huge gap on all 4 sides so it was sucking in some cold attic air.
So now, the furnace is working, but the fiberglass outlet/distribution box on the opposite end of the furnace needs to be sealed up too. Horrible gap in that connection also.
The highs and lows in temperatures have been like 38 to 42 for the past few days. Brrrrr..... especially with no heat.
Here's a few pics including the old and new breaker.
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