Can anyone help with HOME FURNACE ISSUE

[1QWIK6]

I have a newer furnace (90's) with a HONEYWELL electric air cleaner. Furnace works fine, but I keep hearing this rapid constant clicking (like when a spark plug fires) coming from the electric air cleaner. The electric air cleaner has a ON light on it. The ON light flutters rapidly in sequence with the rapid constant clicking. I took the electric filters out, cleaned them, then alcohol wiped the connection point on the filters themselves. Problem still is there (constant clicking). What could it be?

 

[GNX Guy]

Those things suck. Have to be cleaned every 30 days otherwise efficiency goes to crap quickly and they don't clean the air.

The clicking when I had mine turned out to be broken wires on the cell.

I switched to a plain old 5" thick mechanical filter in both of the furnaces in my house about 2 years ago.


Look for broken wires on the cells, you probably have 2 cells.

Joe

 

[1QWIK6]

This is what I have:

http://content.honeywell.com/yourhome/eiac-air_cleaners/F50F_demo.htm

 

[GNX Guy]

You mean you don't clean them once a month?

Above you said you cleaned the electric filters, those are the cells.

Should have 2 of them about 12" X 18" X 5" you remove the main door and pull them out.

Originally posted by 1QWIK6
Cells? where would I look for cells?

 

[John Larkin]

I have those. You have to clean the wires that cross the filter. I use a soft paint brush. If they aren't immaculate, they will spark. I'm glad I didn't pay for the system; it was here when we bought the place.

 

[N2BUICK]

Your EAC has short.If you have checked very close between each large flat plate for anything that is between them,and all is clean then look for the plates themselves being to close to each other.
Bend any plate back straight.
Depending on the cells age and wash history(were they put back into service while still wet) The cell may have eroded the grounding strap(bar)This bar is spring loaded and spans the taller eac plates.At times the aluminum get eroded down where the positive and negitive plates are shorted,check this first.
If posibble you should try and see the unit running.Access the entering side of the eac and watch is arc,you may see where is coming from.
These arcing complaints almost always come from the cells them self. Problems of arcing inside the power pack where it can be heard are rare.
If you do access the power pack,take care,there is around 10k vdc in there and it will really light up your life!
Let me know how it goes
Austin