Electric Attic Furnace Not Heating

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Electric attic furnace not heating.

If your furnace has a reset button it s often a red button located on the front side or back of your furnace try pressing it. There are rarely instances when we will advise against an attic installation. The heat from an attic in the furnace doesn t always feel comfortable. Because the warmer air comes from ducts that are at ceiling level in each room the unit creates a warm air fan.

An attic furnace is closer to the upper stories of a multi level home. Check your furnace ignition sensor. Both gas and electric furnaces work using a forced air heating system. Winchester 59045 btu 4 ton residential forced air electric furnace with ecm blower motor model me16cn21 18 1 439 36 1 439 36.

Check the condensate pan the pan that catches water under furnace. Check the air filter. Most of the issues that furnace might experience in an attic are due to extremely cold weather in this poorly insulated space. Final thoughts on when your furnace won t turn on.

Check your pilot light. Attic furnaces take advantage of the closer proximity to use shorter lengths of air. Check your gas or propane supply. Turn the circuit breaker off and on to reset an electric furnace.

When your furnace is off if you turn it off or if it is warm enough in your house that your furnace doesn t need to run this is what senses that there is no heat being generated by your heat exchanger and tells your fan to turn off because if it didn t it would be blowing unheated air throughout your house and wasting energy. The trick to the installation of a gas furnace in an attic space is routing the condensate drain from the attic down through the core of the house to the basement. If the furnace powers up you should soon have heated air cycling through your home once again. There is a common misconception that this is not possible for high efficiency furnaces.

If after doing all these things the furnace does not produce heat it might require a new igniter in pilot less furnaces. The first piece of equipment used in both furnaces is the thermostat 2 when the temperature in the room falls below the heat set point on the thermostat a signal is sent to the furnace unit. Check the blower motor. A furnace can suffer from a drop in energy efficiency if it s in an unconditioned space such as an attic.

It will not require long lengths of pipe to deliver heat to the rooms as a basement furnace does. Sometimes pressing the reset button is all that is required to get your furnace working properly.