HE360, HE365 Solenoid Valve Assembly

After I got this solenoid valve installed, it has worked quite well. It is perhaps a little noisier than the original one but I do think that it works better than the original. I only needed the solenoid valve and not the wiring harness except for the wires to the solenoid. Luckily I had a pin remover and was able to pull the 2 wires for the solenoid out of the existing harness and the new one and put the new wires into the old harness. My first attempt didn't work well so I pulled the pins back out and stretched them out since the pin puller tends to push the part that holds them in place in. The second attempt after bending the holding part of the pin out worked flawlessly since. I had a little difficulty getting a good seal with the water line attachment but that was my fault by using a very small pipe cutter that had no turning wheels opposing the cutting wheel on it and wasn't cutting a straight pipe. After switching to a full-size pipe cutter, the pipe sealed and worked great. It's a direct replacement for my HE360 Honeywell solenoid valve. If you're going to replace the whole wiring harness, it might be a little more time consuming but you don't have to pull any pins but just do some wiring instead.

This is the at least the third valve assembly for this particular furnace humidifier (20 years old), two since we moved in (Oct.2018). It does what its supposed to do but has developed a VERY loud CLUNK when it shuts off which has me wondering if it will last the season. I don,t fault Supply House for this as the price I thought was a good one. I think it boils down to lousy design from Honywell.