After evicting mickey and minnie from our max e therm, I had to resolder the wires to the high limit switch and the thermister and a yellow wire off the control board. After this I put some chicken wire up on the upper vents, and then stuffed a bunch of steel wool into the front and rear openings.
The heater fires up fine, but the temperature on the display shows at 62 degrees, I've had it set to 98 degrees, but since the temperature never changes it heats way past 98 degrees.
Oddly from everything I can find it appears that if the thermister fails it fails high, ie the temperature it reports is 127 degrees. I seem to have the opposite issue.
Once I get some weather that doesn't include rain I'll have to open the casing up again and see if mickey and minnie have moved back in, or if the wires going to the thermister may have been more damaged than I had previous thought.
Anyone else have any suggestions on things I may have missed, or similar issues?
The heater fires up fine, but the temperature on the display shows at 62 degrees, I've had it set to 98 degrees, but since the temperature never changes it heats way past 98 degrees.
Oddly from everything I can find it appears that if the thermister fails it fails high, ie the temperature it reports is 127 degrees. I seem to have the opposite issue.
Once I get some weather that doesn't include rain I'll have to open the casing up again and see if mickey and minnie have moved back in, or if the wires going to the thermister may have been more damaged than I had previous thought.
Anyone else have any suggestions on things I may have missed, or similar issues?