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Fish House Heater Question

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I have a Williams direct vent heater in my permanent fish house with a thermostat on the wall which I don't think is working properly. The heater either has to be on pilot or run, nothing in between. My guess is that the thermostat is bad. Is there any way to test this without installing a new one? Could the problem be in the heater? Also, this is a Millivolt type of control. I have heard that with a Millivot system that elctricity is not needed. Is this correct?

Any help would be appreciated.

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take the thermostat off and tie the two wires together, this should turn the furnace on, if not then its not the thermostat. If the furnace does turn on then its the thermostat. Its true electricity is not needed as long as the pilot light is on, your furnace uses a thermocouple which produces electricty when heated by the pilot light to run your furnace

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Spotter,

Please clarify. In order to test this as you descirbed above, do I need to have the heater on pilot then tie the 2 wires togethor? If I had the heater on run tieing the wires togethor wouldn't tell me anything since the heater would already be on. Is this correct?

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cold one is right about having it on run, first get the pilot light going then turn it to run, if the thremostat doesn't turn the heat on then try tying the two wires together, if the heater works when the wires are tied together then your thermostat is not working, if the heater still doesn't run then it could be anything, propane line clogged, empty tank, bad thermocouple, the thermocouple is the metalic tube thing that should be touching the pilot light flame.

good luck!

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when you say nothing in between does that meen that the furnace does work when you switch it to run but doesn't turn off with the stat. If thats the case maybe the two wires are already shorted out or the stat is bad, to check if the wires are shorted together, turn the furnace to run and disconect the stat and seperate the wires, if this does not turn the furnace off, then maybe the wires are shorted together somewhere, sometimes a screw could penetrate the wires and short them, if this does turn the furnace off then its a bad stat. your thermostat acts like a switch thats connects the two wires when it wants heat and disconnects them when its warm enough,

hope i'm not making it confusing, not a expert on funaces but as a electrician i do know how a thermostat works.

good luck.

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