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Hey everyone,
Have one for you guys. Here's the situation:
-Rented apartment
-Basic heat-only furnace (WeatherKing brand, no other info available on the unit)
-Two wires coming out of furnace:
-Black: appears connected to a ground
-Brown: appears connected to the on/off valve
-Original thermostat was a simple mercury switch model
-Current thermostat Hunter Model 44260, mounted in a separate room
-Black -> W/B
-Brown -> RH with jumper to RC
The furnace is doing some very strange things. In general, it seems to come on when it's cold and turns off when it's hot - but there are serious quirks. When the thermostat is in 'on' mode (I can hear it click when the temp falls under the programmed temp), the furnace clicks on, warms up, runs for about 5-10 seconds, then turns off. A couple minutes later the furnace will spin up again and usually heat the apartment until it hits the programmed temp - however, sometimes it will keep turning on and off and on and off until it gets to temp.
The problem here is my gas bill is ridiculous! I think my furnace is wildly inefficient and the way it's running with these rapid cycles just makes things even worse. What can I do for this thing? Is it a bad tstat? Something in the furnace itself? This is a VERY old apartment with very mediocre upkeep. The windows are very very leaky so I lose a lot of heat that way (recently sealed things up with the plastic shrink wrap stuff).
Ideas?
Thank you!
T
Have one for you guys. Here's the situation:
-Rented apartment
-Basic heat-only furnace (WeatherKing brand, no other info available on the unit)
-Two wires coming out of furnace:
-Black: appears connected to a ground
-Brown: appears connected to the on/off valve
-Original thermostat was a simple mercury switch model
-Current thermostat Hunter Model 44260, mounted in a separate room
-Black -> W/B
-Brown -> RH with jumper to RC
The furnace is doing some very strange things. In general, it seems to come on when it's cold and turns off when it's hot - but there are serious quirks. When the thermostat is in 'on' mode (I can hear it click when the temp falls under the programmed temp), the furnace clicks on, warms up, runs for about 5-10 seconds, then turns off. A couple minutes later the furnace will spin up again and usually heat the apartment until it hits the programmed temp - however, sometimes it will keep turning on and off and on and off until it gets to temp.
The problem here is my gas bill is ridiculous! I think my furnace is wildly inefficient and the way it's running with these rapid cycles just makes things even worse. What can I do for this thing? Is it a bad tstat? Something in the furnace itself? This is a VERY old apartment with very mediocre upkeep. The windows are very very leaky so I lose a lot of heat that way (recently sealed things up with the plastic shrink wrap stuff).
Ideas?
Thank you!
T