Woke up this morning about 3 AM and thought the house felt cold. Went and while doing my business I heard a funny humming sound. Walking to the kitchen to get a drink of water (the other part of my nightly ritchual [img]/forums/images/icons/grin.gif[/img] ) I still heard the hum and it was louder and smelled something burning. Walking toward the utility room the smell got stronger and the sound louder. It was coming from the furnace. I could tell from the sound that the motor was locked up. I then immediately went to the thermostat and shut it down and also cut the power. Woke the wife up and told her to keep our daughter close to her to keep her warm and I would do the same with our son. Got up about 5:30 (close to normal time) and called in to work and told them I was going to work from home today. Called the company that put the new heat pump in to come do the repair. They discovered that when the original heat pump was put in they didn't upgrade the fan motor like they should've. It was only a 1/4 HP motor. He said he would go ahead and upgrade to 1/2. When he came back he said he couldn't get a 1/2 and a bracket that would fit in our fan housing and he couldn't find another fan housing to fit our furnace - at leat in a timely manner i.e. today. He was able to get a 1/3 HP that also spun at a higher rate than the old one. Made a difference in our son's and daughter's rooms at the other end of the house. Didn't think it was too bad of cost to fix it. $105 for the motor, $12 for a bracket, $8 for a capacitor, and 1 hour ($68) labor. All told about $217. Could've probably done it myself, but wasn't totally sure it was just the motor and didn't want to get in above my head - I just needed heat quick. All in all, what started out to be a terrible situation, didn't turn out too bad.