For 10 years, I lit my Williams Direct Vent Wall Furnace by using the red spark ignition button. For the first time, It would not work so I tried to light the pilot light by removing the wingnut to the pilot window observation door. There is so much air (wind) that I can't even get the match inside to light it because it blows out. I didn't know if this is normal since I never had to light it this way. I called a HVAC guy and he had to light it with a blow torch. It stayed lit and the unit worked for a couple of days but now the pilot light is out again. I tried lighting it myself but the air just blows out my matches and butane lighter. Is there something wrong with this picture?

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I have a Williams top vent gravity wall furnace (model 5009622) and I had the same problem. I had to take the cover off the furnace -- screw on top and two at the bottom (open the access door and there is one screw on each side) to get to the reset button for the vent safety shutoff system. On my furnace it's on the left side toward the top of the unit. I pressed the little red reset button and it's been working ever since. If your furnace is properly installed and doesn't have bird's nest in the chimney, it should work fine. Good luck!

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I've replaced a Williams wall gas heater non-electric. The thermostat is connected right and mounted on the wall. But, there's a thick black copper wire on the side of the furnace tagged thermostat. I don't know what to do with it? Where do you connect this wire? When it touches the top screw of the three screws running vertically(where the other wires are connected). The burner lights up and stays on, even if you play with the wall thermostat. Touching the other two screws doesn't do anything. Now, the manual talks about connecting it to the venting wires? Extra wires coming from the top or maybe somewhere else in the wall? I've left it connected to the first screw, ran the heater. But, it never turns off? Any suggestions? Thanks

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THE flame from the pilot should shoot past the thermo-couple and heat this up and make a small amount of mili- amps to prove the pilot light is lit. ..So if the flame doesn,t go past the thermo-couple it won, make mili-amps or its tme to change out the thermo-couple, They only cost lest than $8:00 and you can change it!

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the thermocouples go bad on those and the gas wont receive the signal that theres is a flame present replace thermocouple