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side note.... but its not about the electricity
My father's place was propane - big 1000 gallon tank. the furnace he put is was a newer 95% efficiency unit (with igniter). he came home from hunting up in the UP 6 months later to discover the igniter cracked, furnace quit working (blinking error codes) and the house was 34 degrees with ice forming in the toilet bowls and tanks
so he kept 2 igniters on-hand and installed a wall-mount space heater with a pilot light in the basement. the next 3 times the igniter went out (because they do) the temp dropped and the space heater came on.
the funny thing is the igniter never went when he was home, only when he was out of state hunting or down here.
The last time it failed was after he passed and the temperature got down to -40 for a week. When I got to the house a few weeks later, I used dad's last new igniter
My father's place was propane - big 1000 gallon tank. the furnace he put is was a newer 95% efficiency unit (with igniter). he came home from hunting up in the UP 6 months later to discover the igniter cracked, furnace quit working (blinking error codes) and the house was 34 degrees with ice forming in the toilet bowls and tanks
so he kept 2 igniters on-hand and installed a wall-mount space heater with a pilot light in the basement. the next 3 times the igniter went out (because they do) the temp dropped and the space heater came on.
the funny thing is the igniter never went when he was home, only when he was out of state hunting or down here.
The last time it failed was after he passed and the temperature got down to -40 for a week. When I got to the house a few weeks later, I used dad's last new igniter