Monday, October 27, 2014

Obstructed Intake Causing My Fault Code?

This is probably a no-brainer but thought I would check just in case. The furnace is a Coleman TM9V, 96%. We moved in to the house a year ago and had no issues with the furnace (it was only a couple years old). I did replace the leaky condensate pan with the updated pan, but that was about it. This year I picked up a different thermostat to take advantage of the 2 stages (original tstat was only 1 stage). Four or five days ago the furnace wasn't kicking on. The blower motor was spinning slowly but that was about it. I pulled the panels off before I remembered to look for a fault code. Reinstalled the panels and the furnace started up and returned to normal. Today it happened again, but this time I watched for a code. 5 red flashes: "Rollout switch or blocked condensate switch is open". I noticed what looked to be fluffy insulation laying beneath the blower motor...weird. After looking a bit closer the fluffy insulation was actually feathers and there was a dead bird stuck in the screen for the intake pipe! Gross! Image: http://i.imgur.com/iM71ij1s.jpg (http://imgur.com/iM71ij1.jpg)

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