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The hose in the lower corner of the black box needs to drain into a trap, or the fan will pull air in through that hose and keep it from draining. It's not in the pic is there something wrong with it, cracked or leaking? It should fill with water and drain correctly after the first time the...

The rubber coupling between the inducer and the PVC pipe is supposed to catch any condensation from the exhaust pipe, if the line attached to that is blocked or got overwhelmed by too much water there is a chance the inducer is filled halfway with water and won't let it spin fast enough. There...

The hole in the end of that nozzle is extremely tiny and even if its not plugged entirely, it doesn't take much to ruin the spray pattern. Tech support from any manufacturer will tell you it needs to be replaced every season. Almost all of the different furnace makers all have Beckett burners...

It's seems like more up front, but in the long run getting the service done on the furnace by someone who knows what they are doing will be cheaper. Throwing parts at it replacing stuff that may or may not be the problem is not a good way of fixing anything. With an oil furnace you really should...

You can start a new thread instead of bringing up one that's over a year old, and you answered your own question. The click your hearing is the thermal overload saving your overloaded generator. The generator you've got is too small, my advice is to get the biggest generator you can afford...

I was talking about the oil filter but a good clean air filter isn't going to hurt anything.

Have your oil furnace serviced annually by a service technician that uses a combustion analyser. Without one of those they are just guessing. With an oil furnace you really need to have it serviced every year, even if it doesn't pop the reset it will be more efficient with a new nozzle and...

Corrosion builds up in the turbulator or vent pipe in the center of the tank causing poor draft and poor combustion, resulting in soot build up further reducing draft and poor combustion. The final result is high levels of carbon monoxide spilling out of the water heater.

Hmmm... Gas cans, chemical sprayers, I don't think I would want to mix that air with the air in my house, not to mention it wouldn't pass building code.

Most of the tank type water heaters don't see enough cold water(40-50*) coming in to drop the temp inside the tank enough on a regular basis to cause the excessive condensation that badger boiler is talking about. But I have seen it happen in homes that had a 40 gallon tank when they really...

You could also try tech support for the company that built the heater, there's usually a number for them in the instructions that came with it. They are usually pretty helpful to avoid unnecessary returns.

The 500 setting is 0 to 500 volts, it doesn't double the reading from the 0 to 250 range. You should have three wires going to the unit, at the outlet it would be two slots and one D or L shaped hole. Take the red and black leads from the meter and put the black lead in the D or L shaped hole...

The setting you refer to is a range, you should be able to leave it on 250 to do the check. Check volts ac from each line to ground, should be 120 v then check volts to both should add to 220-240v.

I'm not really familiar with farenheat heaters so just to be sure your talking about a 220 volt electric space heater that's wired to the electrical panel. Are you sure your getting 220 volts? It is possible to have 120 volts on each leg but if they are on the same phase they don't add up to...

Yes, a cresent wrench isn't a hammer but you can still hit a nail with one.

I meant you left out the price for the guage, I guess the one in the pic is a second temp guage. And yes you definitely do need that pressure relief valve as a safety feature if the electric water heater malfunctions and doesn't shut off at the set temp.

Definitely get a co monitor, not all made equally though look at ppm rating on the back. 100 ppm is lethal levels and some of the need 400 ppm! before they will set of an alarm. Co is also lighter then air so don't get plugin ones and put them up at eye level or higher. Be safe out there.

Electric resistance heat is not 100% efficient. That's impossible and so is more then 100% that would be more energy out then in. Electric resistance is about as close as you can get to 100% though. That doesn't mean that its the cheapest and usually its the most expensive per BTU, and that's...

For an insulation barrier use a piece of 6 in single wall pipe and cut a series of 1 inch notches all the way around on each end creating tabs. You the bend the tabs in 90 degrees and that will automatically give you the clearance for the insulation, you could even bend 3 or 4 tabs out on the...

As long as your not knocking yourself out hitting your head on it, it should be fine.