Evcon Blower Motor Cycling - Thmstat On or Off

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frankk
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Hello. I have a 15 year old Evcon DGAM075BDD furnace with A/C. The circuit board took a lighting hit. I replaced the circuit board and transformer with new. Now, at any thermostat setting, including "off", blower fan will come on for 3-4 minutes, then off 30 seconds, then on 3-4 minutes, etc. Different thermostat settings (combinations of Heat-Off-Cool; Fan-Auto-On) have no effect on blower motor cycling - the blower motor still cycles as described. Example: heat does cycle OK but when at temp and burner kicks off, blower fan will continue to cycle as described: on for 3-4 minutes, off for 30 seconds, etc. I checked the wiring of new circuit board and transformer and all wiring seems OK and as per original board connections. Any thoughts? (I appreciate any ideas. Thank you.) Frank
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frankk
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Three more comments and a single question (please). (1) The original circuit board was the 7990-319P. The new replacement is also the 7990-319P (purchased from this site), not the 7990-320P. (2) Now when the t-stat calls for heat, the blower, from a constant-running-cycling state as described, STOPS UNTIL the heat exchanger is up to heat, then the fan comes on, all as per normal; when the t-stat is up to temp, gas shuts off normally, fan continues for a bit, then stops in a normal post-heat blower-stop; then abnormally the blower starts up on it's own with no heat-call and begins the permanent start/stop "cycling" described. The only way to stop this is to shut off power to the entire furnace. (3) Since for my Coleman/Evcon model (1995) there appears to be no separate fan control switch, or sequencer switch, such that those functions appear to be all part of the 7990-319P circuit board, then the suspect part is "surprise" the 7990-319P circuit board. Thanks for any ideas you may have. I appreciate it.
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When the fan is doing the on-off stuff, put a meter across your limit switches and see if they are opening and closing at the same time.

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frankk
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Hi Mark,

Thanks for the help. Since writing the above, I've replaced with new parts: (1) the lower limit switch, (2) upper limit switch, (3) booster assembly, (4) thermostat. I also cleaned the remote flame sensor. The problem still exists with the exact same behavior. I also disconnected the lower limit switch, and the problem still exists with the exact same behavior. So I think the problem is the board. Any thoughts? (Thank you again.)
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Sounds like a defective board.

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frankk
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'Sounds like you're right. It was a defective board. Meaning: the 7990-319P factory-new replacement board was DEFECTIVE, such that your moderator Robert was correct in his related post that the 7990-319P is inherently defective and that the upgraded board, the 7990-320P, fixes the problem. Moreover, I did NOT NEED all those other replacement parts; I only needed to replace the new but defective 7990-319P board with the upgraded 7990-320P board and all the problems were solved.
spiderman
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Ive got the same problem with my coleman DAT075BDF Already had one board repaired by them and bought a new one too. Problem has returned how about you?
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