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    Oct 27, 2007, 01:41 PM
    Floor furnace
    I have a floor furnace that worked last year and I lit it this year and it worked one day and would not come back on. What is the goning on with it now?:confused:
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    Oct 27, 2007, 04:57 PM
    Is the pilot still burning?, when you re-light,does it stay burning?when you raise the temp on stat,does the gas valve open for gas to come out?, tell us more on what you`ve tried
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    Oct 27, 2007, 06:23 PM
    We need more info. Some of the older systems used millivolts to open the gas valve using a thermopile(pilot generator) to generate the DC voltage. You can jumper the two wires together at the thermostat to see if the thermostat is the cause.
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