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goodman gas furnace not lighting

Paul_69
Paul_69 Member Posts: 251
Hey guys, had a goodman gms80403an-12040013772 furnace. tech support said to replace board and we did. whats going on is inducer goes, glows,and hear gas valve click a bit and flutters, have good gas to unit.if i put 24volt direct to gas valve it opens properly and dumps gas out. i tried jump all interlocks and read 24 vlts to gas valve for a couple seconds. another tech support said harness,another said no. we widened pin connections on board plug also.They kept bringing up bad ground.The unit is almost 5years old as well as the home.Could this be the problem?I told home owner to get electrician to prove that ground is in tact from panel to attic furnace. They still have no heat and the tech support seems to be all over the place and we are running out of things to check.Any help would be very helpful as we are getting frustrated! thx

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  • Paul_69
    Paul_69 Member Posts: 251
    anybody? tim etc...
  • JUGHNE
    JUGHNE Member Posts: 11,042
    edited February 2017
    With furnace circuit breaker OFF check for any voltage between white neutral and green/bare ground...should be almost nothing.
    Then check for any resistance on those 2 wires, should be almost zero. Should be zero from bare to furnace steel also.
    (If the furnace blower runs OK on fan switch then neutral is most likely good)

    Also need good ground connection between board and furnace ground/chassis/burners.

    Did you change or clean the flame sensor?
    If no FS then HSI acting as sensor and I would change HSI.
  • Ironman
    Ironman Member Posts: 7,367
    I assume you cleaned/checked the flame rod?

    If you suspect a bad ground between the furnace and the panel, temporarily ground the neutral wire to the furnace cabinet. If that fixes it, then you do have a bad ground. If not, look elsewhere.

    Are you sure the pressure switch is not fluttering when it fires?
    Bob Boan
    You can choose to do what you want, but you cannot choose the consequences.
  • Paul_69
    Paul_69 Member Posts: 251
    its not firing, it attempts to pwer gas valve,but it seems weak. you can feel it flutter the valve but no light off, like i said if i put 24 vlts directly from trans. to gas valve it opens fine.
  • Paul_69
    Paul_69 Member Posts: 251
    If its not even lighting, how can it be flame sensor?
  • Ironman
    Ironman Member Posts: 7,367
    Jump the pressure switch AFTER the inducer is at full speed and see what happens.
    Bob Boan
    You can choose to do what you want, but you cannot choose the consequences.
  • Paul_69
    Paul_69 Member Posts: 251
    did that also thx
    jumped all the interlocks many times
  • Paul_69
    Paul_69 Member Posts: 251
    Bob, thx for all the advice..it could still be a poor ground it looks like. i have had a few boards do this same thing but i put a new one in..it is acting like that weak kind of ghost voltage the happens sometimes like the board breaking down or a dirtyswitch or contact you know what I mean? I will try that nuetral to the cabinet when i re-group and go back to job
  • upstateben
    upstateben Member Posts: 33
    I had a similar issue recently on a gms80 furnace. I traced problem to bad aux limit. Its mounted down on the blower. I would get 24 volts to with wires off the valve but would only get a few volts with the wires on the valve. Valve was doing the exact same thing you describe. That limit was in series with the valve.
  • Ironman
    Ironman Member Posts: 7,367
    edited February 2017
    Paul, you can just wire nut the ground and neutral together in the furnace.
    I'd also check what Ben said. I kinda doubt that it's a bad ground from what you're describing.
    Bob Boan
    You can choose to do what you want, but you cannot choose the consequences.
  • ChrisJ
    ChrisJ Member Posts: 15,584
    If you jumped all of the interlocks and it made no difference, what's left in the circuit besides the control board and the gas valve?

    If you're 100% sure the new board is good, I would question whether or not the transformer is supplying enough current (voltage dropping too much under load), or, if the gas valve is drawing too much current. Perhaps the control board simply cannot supply the current the gas valve needs at this point, but bypassing it does.

    There's nothing else that could effect it is there?

    What voltage do you see at the gas valve when it flutters? I would check the voltage leaving the control board to the valve, and the voltage going to the control board under these conditions as well.

    That may help you zero in on what's happening.
    Single pipe quasi-vapor system. Typical operating pressure 0.14 - 0.43 oz. EcoSteam ES-20 Advanced Control for Residential Steam boilers. Rectorseal Steamaster water treatment
  • ChrisJ
    ChrisJ Member Posts: 15,584

    Single pipe quasi-vapor system. Typical operating pressure 0.14 - 0.43 oz. EcoSteam ES-20 Advanced Control for Residential Steam boilers. Rectorseal Steamaster water treatment
  • Paul_69
    Paul_69 Member Posts: 251
    Thanks guys, I am ordered a new gas vave as this and the transformer are all that is left other than the new board and transformer...I was getting tunnel vision after a banging my head on this for hours..I will post outcome after I go back. I wish all the parts were the same like on most oil burners so I could swap out parts as trials!
  • BobC
    BobC Member Posts: 5,476
    The only thing I can tell you is to measure the voltage directly across the gas valve, don't try measuring from any other point.

    Bob
    Smith G8-3 with EZ Gas @ 90,000 BTU, Single pipe steam
    Vaporstat with a 12oz cut-out and 4oz cut-in
    3PSI gauge
  • rick in Alaska
    rick in Alaska Member Posts: 1,457
    And double check the connectors from the circuit board, especially if it has a molex plug. I think you said you did that, but not sure. If you could put a meter on the circuit board output and another on the gas valve input, then you could see if voltage drops between them when it tries to fire.
    Rick
  • Paul_69
    Paul_69 Member Posts: 251
    Went back to seen of the crime and I brought a gas valve with me and threw it in and lit fine. The ohms seemed good but not sure why it was bad. maybe just wouldnt stay open and unit shut down? So now they are set. Thanks for all the advice. Just a tiger to pinpoint.
  • ChrisJ
    ChrisJ Member Posts: 15,584
    edited February 2017
    Paul said:

    Went back to seen of the crime and I brought a gas valve with me and threw it in and lit fine. The ohms seemed good but not sure why it was bad. maybe just wouldnt stay open and unit shut down? So now they are set. Thanks for all the advice. Just a tiger to pinpoint.

    Not sure.
    Only thing that comes to mind is DC resistance often doesn't reflect AC impedance in an inductive circuit such as this.

    You're also testing the resistance at a lower voltage than it runs at. It may have lower resistance at a higher voltage.
    Single pipe quasi-vapor system. Typical operating pressure 0.14 - 0.43 oz. EcoSteam ES-20 Advanced Control for Residential Steam boilers. Rectorseal Steamaster water treatment
  • icy78
    icy78 Member Posts: 404
    Still seems like you must have a voltage issue. The old valve works fine with 24vac so it should work fine thru the controls unless there is an electrical restriction of some kind. The new valve works because it can operate at that reduced voltage and hasn't been damaged yet by the reduced voltage and thus become harder to open. I think the problem will rear it's ugly head again. May take a year or two but it'll return.
  • ratio
    ratio Member Posts: 3,615
    Some times valves get flaky. Whenever I'm there, they work. When I'm not... :confused:
  • JUGHNE
    JUGHNE Member Posts: 11,042
    Yes, you are right about the FS. I misread your first posting, thought your had some standing fire.

    Did you measure the voltage right at the new valve after it was steady state running? I somewhat agree with icy78.
  • Md84
    Md84 Member Posts: 1
    I coming across a similar issue except wit spark igniter. It sparks once shuts off induce and all then restarts the cycle instead of locking out it keeps restarting after one spark even after bypassing all switches. Took power off gv. Then cycles normal no flame obviously but attempts to spark continuously till lock out. 
    Hooked direct 24 from trans. to gv opens up just fine 
  • unclejohn
    unclejohn Member Posts: 1,833
    With me it is always the pressure switch with this type of problem. Should be able to jump from PS to MV on the board which would bypass the K8 contacts if you end up with the same issue with new valve.
  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 9,572
    edited January 2021
    So did you actually measure the voltage across the valve, preferably with an analog voltmeter since a dmm only takes a couple readings a second and will miss pulsing voltages? Did you put a manometer on the outlet and inlet of the valve if the voltage was constant to check the gas supply and the regulator in the valve? I have read "the gas valve is just fine" twice in here but nothing about what the pressures were.