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by ronvinyard

New to this forum, but can't maintain how much benevolent info is being exchanged for the DIY set. anyway here's my problem. We recently swaped a 20 year old coleman nat gas furnace for a newer (Less than 5 years) coleman evcon modelDGAT090BDF section. Swap was very submissive since they were comparable in volume and mounting positions. Won't go into a ton of details but everything went fair, the element which hadn't been familiar before (according to the guy it was bought from) started proper up and inspirit was flowing. We are in Southern Oregon and winters are sufficiently forgiving, this constituent was event less than I expected and seemed to be cycling nicely, couldn't have been happier. until the first gas bill came. the old constituent had some flawed electronics and our tech said it was cheaper to renew than mend and we incontestable to go to a pellet stove, so we stop using this old element alltogether. then pellets went through the roof and we bought this replacement part, our biggest bill with the old setup was $125. The first bill...

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