Woke up this morning to the smell of something getting hot.

About time my eyes opened the smoke detector goes off. The capacitor on the furnace fan motor had went out. When the heat kicked on it went into its high fire heat up stage at which the fan will come on a minute later. No working capacitor, no working fan. The furnace ran with no airflow until the tripped out on high heat. Good thing for built in fail safes. Otherwise it might have been bad for me. Capacitor replaced and furnace working as it should and since I was already in there it good a good cleaning too

Glad you are safe and everything is repaired and ready to go.

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Repaired and ready to go keeps me out of the dog house. The little woman doesn't like to be cold. It does get one to thinking

Good thing you were there and fail safes. Glad everything worked out ok and back working good.

What Dave said. Those start capacitors shut a lot of folks down . Good deal that you could fix it yourself.

Glad everything turned out good, glad you are safe. Stay warm...

You were very lucky there wasn't a fire. Scary thing.

I woke to that smell back in the 80's and it is scary situation.The furnace was likely 30 years old, the blower belt broke but the furnace kept heating.
I had 3 young ones at home. Took the day off to find a belt and replace it. All was good.
We all have had these things happen, we must be preventative.
Glad that it all ended happily for you.

Alan

Glad it turned out ok for ya. Could have been a lot worse.


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I still have A/C on. This weekend is first spell of cool weather here. Welcome change from the heat.

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I still have A/C on. This weekend is first spell of cool weather here. Welcome change from the heat.

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Had the air on until yesterday ourselves. Still had tomatoe plants blooming and putting on friut that were planted in spring. Has been a strange year

no gas in my house except grill.......lol

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no gas in my house except grill.......lol

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I am considering replacing the system with 2 mini splits.

I replaced both capacitors and the contactor in my heat pump last fall. The contacts we’re getting pitted up and I knew the capacitors were getting old. I figured some preventative maintenance was better than changing them out in January.

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I replaced both capacitors and the contactor in my heat pump last fall. The contacts we’re getting pitted up and I knew the capacitors were getting old. I figured some preventative maintenance was better than changing them out in January.

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Very true. This one showed no sign of deterioration

Good save. Glad for y'all. God bless.

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I am considering replacing the system with 2 mini splits.

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A properly installed heat pump is much more efficient that gas in our area. Now if you live in a barn you will need the capacity of gas. But with a energy efficiency package of windows, insulation and efficient heat pump. You can establish a power bill levelized at less then 200 per month on 3000 sq ft for your structure. This excludes outhouses pools hot tubs.

Those are pretty good numbers

Wait, didn't nothing burn down did it?