{"id":1075,"date":"2019-11-13T19:40:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T19:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2019-11-13T19:40:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T19:40:41","slug":"heat-at-the-range-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/2019\/11\/13\/heat-at-the-range-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat at the Range &#8211; Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong> Range Update:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the last several months, we have had issues with the propane furnace in the Clubhouse out at the range.&nbsp; The initial issue was with the gas valve.&nbsp; Jim Sweeney replaced the gas valve and the unit operated intermittently for a while; then the igniter didn\u2019t spark.&nbsp;Jim worked on the igniter circuit, cleaned contacts \u2013 adjusted points \u2013 whatever, and it worked intermittently again.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By now, too much time and money had been spent on it and by the time we would have had a professional come out and take a look at it \u2013 we would have had over half the cost of a new unit in the repair on a well-used unit.&nbsp;So, the decision was made to just drop in a new unit.&nbsp; Guess what \u2013 the new unit didn\u2019t work either.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After some more checking and poking about, it turned out that the pressure regulator on the propane tank had failed.&nbsp; The propane guy said \u201cWell, they hardly ever fail\u201d, but after he checked all of our work \u2013 guess what?&nbsp; It had failed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The heater wants about 1 PSI gas pressure \u2013 not a lot of flow.&nbsp; The regulator on the tank had failed and was putting 50 PSI to the heater gas valve.&nbsp; The valve is designed as Fail Safe \u2013 it just won\u2019t open with that much supply pressure on the inlet side.&nbsp; Good idea \u2013 that much gas would blow the back out of the building if the igniter tried to light it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now \u2013 we have a new furnace (the old one really was past fixing), we have a new regulator on the propane tank and \u2013 we have heat in the building!&nbsp; Thank you, Jim Sweeney, for dealing with all of the aggravation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Range Update:&nbsp; For the last several months, we have had issues with the propane furnace in the Clubhouse out at the range.&nbsp; The initial issue was with the gas valve.&nbsp; Jim Sweeney replaced the gas valve and the unit operated intermittently for a while; then the igniter didn\u2019t spark.&nbsp;Jim worked on the igniter circuit, cleaned&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}