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Old 10-21-2018, 09:46 AM   #1
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Clicking noise before furnace starts

I have a 2015 Forrest River Puma toy hauler. We use it mainly in summer months so I don't have much experience with the furnace. This week it has gotten cold enough that we are using the furnace and I have noticed a clicking noise that starts 10 to 15 seconds prior to the furnace coming on. At first I thought it was the ignitor but then I discovered the sound is coming from the ceiling AC unit. It sounds like a relay clicking. Everything seems to be working OK but I am wondering if this is normal or is there trouble ahead.
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Old 10-21-2018, 09:56 AM   #2
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If you have a Dometic Thermostat, check to see that you have the Fan set to auto. If set to low or high, the circulation fan in the AC may run when the furnace is operating. The igniter in the furnace will also make a clicking noise, but is usually not noticeable as the furnace fan should start and runs for a short period of time before the igniter fires.
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Old 10-21-2018, 10:03 AM   #3
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Thanks for your reply. The fan is set to auto and the AC fan is not running but that is where the clicking sound is coming from.
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Old 10-21-2018, 10:07 AM   #4
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2019 grey wolf 23mk. Where is thermostat for propane furnace.
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Old 10-21-2018, 10:09 AM   #5
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does your unit have Heat Pumps or Electric heat within the roof units?
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Old 10-21-2018, 10:14 AM   #6
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Neither, AC in the ceiling and furnace in the floor.
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Old 10-21-2018, 10:17 AM   #7
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On the wall. same thermostat for both AC and furnace
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Old 10-21-2018, 10:26 AM   #8
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sounds about the same as the rest of us, but what the 'clicking' is might be a mystery, UNLESS this is a backfeed of 12v power from the starting of the furnace 'ignition' back to the 12v wiring from the THermostat to the roof Air Condtioner.
While the air condtioners are 120v units, they 'start' with the 12v signal from the Thermostat... maybe there is a connection between the 12v signal within the Thermostat that is also sending a signal to the air conditioner while the furnace igniter starts.

This may lie behind the Thermostat, and how it was wired. There should be two separate 12v lines 'out', to the Furnace and to the Air Conditioner(s), and maybe they were somehow combined, or they are touching.
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Thanks, I'll check that.
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Old 10-21-2018, 10:51 AM   #10
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I had this exact problem. Re-initializing and setting the temperature differential to D2 fixed the problem.
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Thank, I'll try that.
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AC/heat pump/Furnace all in one t-stat.
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Old 10-21-2018, 12:25 PM   #13
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I have the same set up in my Class C, and get the same clicking noise in the Overhead Unit just before the furnace kicks in. Let us know what you find out.
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Will do!
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I have the 15,000 BTU heat pump in ceiling plus the gas furnace. I get the clicking sound in the ceiling unit when using the gas furnace. I just read that your unit does not have the Heat Pump, so the connection must be with the AC unit. They must be somehow related. I have previously performed the initialization as mentioned above, and have set my thermostat to the 2° differentiation. You can google the thermostat and see the many things you can do with it, but I have not found an answer to the clicking sound. I will do some additional research.
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Ours is in the shop for the exact issue. Clicking was becoming loud and annoying.
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Ours is in the shop for the exact issue. Clicking was becoming loud and annoying.


Please let us know the cause! Searching the boards, it seems to have been an issue for many years, going back to at least 2012. Nobody has posted the fix, that I can find.
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Sig, you need to check the thread you started, not hijack someone else's thread.
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Did changing the temp Differential fix the problem?
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Old 10-23-2018, 06:48 AM   #20
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There's a relay up in the air conditioner that closes to tell the furnace to start. That's what you're hearing.
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