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It's a warm day so,I cut off my heat.
I have what is call a heat/pac,I think-heat by gas,cool by electricity.
Well the thermostat is off & the fan keeps turing on & off on & off on & off.The only way I can keep the fan from doing this,I had to remove the circuit breaker from the outside at the heat/pac unit. This did the same thing a few months ago & I called a heating & cooling company & the repair man that came out check it & said he couldn't find anything wrong. He came in & checked the thermostat couldn't find anything wrong. Now it is doing it again.Whatever he did or didn't do it stopped until now.I know for a fact the thermostat is off & even if it wasn't should not come on when I have it set at 65 & the temperature is reading 70 degrees in the house. This has me so worried,please anyone that can help.
Thank you for any help.
My thought is that it's a weird connection for the fan and has nothing to do with the thermostat at all. If it was a slightly loose wire or something it could be when the repair guy was looking at it last time he happened to bump it back into a good position, and now it's worked its way a bit loose again. Or I wonder if moisture could be getting in sometimes and making things go funny? Maybe there wasn't any moisture in there when he checked it so he didn't find anything wrong, and now the conditions that caused moisture to get in there have returned and so has the problem.
We have had "alot" of rain for the past week.
If moisture is causing the problem,is there somthing I can do?
If not,is it ok to leave the circuit breaker out until Monday or whenever a repair man can come out? Being a woman,this kind of thing is foreign to me & has me worried. I do appreicate your help,thank you so much.
If it's moisture, I would probably leave it to the pros, water and electricity make a bad combination, especially for DIY'ers who aren't totally comfortable with what they're doing so personally I wouldn't go poking around too much on my own, unless you're 100% sure there's no power to anything you're touching! I would think as long as you're not going need to run your heat it would be OK to leave the circuit breaker out until the repair guy comes, but if you're having some cold nights you might not want to do that! Hopefully someone who knows more about this will come along and give you some advice too--I'm not really an expert when it comes to electrical stuff.
hi Christmas Cactus - did you ever get an answer to your problem? I was wondering...
here in the mid-atlantic we deal with lots of moisture all the time and our cooling systems deal with it. They'll run and remove most of the moisture from the air. All except what's in our attics. Some of us have Power Attic Ventilators installed to take care of heat build up in the attic and also moisture build up. We don't want mold or anything else growing up there in the dark. So my Attic fan will go off and on and on and off all the time as it tries to remove the heat as well as the moisture. If it's a cool day, the fan will still go on to remove moisture. And like yours, sometimes off and on. I've even had the fan go off and on during the winter months - again to prevent the build-up of moisture.
So let us know how you made out. I'm curious how the left coasters deal with their awful sunny and warm climate.
Have to say my climate here is far from awful! Where I live it doesn't usually get too hot during the day, and it cools off into the 50's or 60's overnight so I rarely use my air conditioning. And even the parts of the west coast that do get hot, there's really no humidity and dry heat doesn't feel nearly as hot as heat plus humidity in the eastern part of the country.
