On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 16:33:50 -0700 (PDT), trader_4 wrote:
> I'd say the resistance doesn't matter because there probably is no
> material difference in resistance. But without the thermal fuse,
> whatever safety that it provides is gone. In other words, it should
> work, but without the additional feature. Does it? I guess the
> question comes down to is what you wind up with the same as my WH
> and most others that don't have this or does my WH and others have
> some other way of thermal cut off instead that yours doesn't have,
> thereby leaving yours unsafe? IDK
IDK either.
The book resistance of the Honeywell CQ100A1013 thermocouple is apparently
0.2 ohms but that's all I could find out by way of technical specs from
either Sears or from Honeywell.
Sears confirmed the replacement part number is 9000056015, but when I look
up *that* part number, none of the pictures show the thermal switch.
The fit of the Honeywell CQ100A1013 "universal" thermocouple isn't even
close to the same as the original fit either as the mounting for the
original is screwed on with a plate while the "universal" Honeywell
thermocouple is a screw on nut which doesn't have a corresponding mating
female.
Therefore, the "universal" thermocouple isn't even close to universal,
although I can probably bend some metal to make it fit - I'm basically
making my own parts out of raw materials.
When I called Honeywell technical support at 800-468-1502x1x1x9x1 to find
out if they have a closer replacement than the Honeywell CQ100A1013 that I
bought, they drove me nuts in so much as they don't even understand the
simplest thing about the product they sell.
All they could tell me is that it has to go 1/2 inch into the flame.
When I asked for a thermocouople with a theroswitch, they told me to use
the Q340A1074 but that doesn't seem to have a thermoswitch either.
https://www.amazon.com/Honeywell-Q340A1074-International-Thermocouple/dp/B00E0CWKPC
So I'm basically making my own parts from raw materials because the mounts
aren't even close on *any* of these so-called replacement thermocouples.