Delayed Ignition

This video shows the potential danger from appliances experiencing delayed ignition, such as this household furnace.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• home
• education
• furnace
• ignition
• explosion
• boom

[street8487]

Sweet

[sueisunimited]

mine does that all the time but its scary

[wawawis]

Those explosions really startle! I was able to catch one of our explosions on camera before it was fixed yesterday. Ours just needed a good cleaning. It looks like yours may need a pilot adjustment, a gas valve replacement, or something turned up.

[bababooey7576]

@Nivicoman Wow...You certainly got your money's worth out of that thing. my neighbour's a/c finally cacked this summer...we estimate it was installed around 1971-2. blower and compressor still were coming on, just no freon left im thinking. Carrier...It pisses me off how nothing much ever went wrong with it. a wire burnt here or there. meanwhile our original one we put in in 1988 lasted like 12 years. mom owns a house with a keeprite from 1983. no service calls to date. sounds beautiful too.

[Nivicoman]

@bababooey7576 Last year we finally had to replace our 1958 Luxaire furnace (original) when the heat exchanger cracked along with the pilot light failsafe going bad. Not the most fuel efficient but literally built like a tank and was readily serviceable.

[camodad1231]

try tightening the manifold mounting screws, then clean your burners. one of the two should fix it.

[fetisov02]

sa weet

[Rueuhy]

Could be several things happening. May be a pilot not adjusted correctly and gas building up until it finally reaches the pilot. Could also be a gas valve not opening fully or at all and finally opens full amount and flooding the pilot area too quickly and too much. You need a qualified technician to look at this problem before you use it anymore.

[cwheels4]

Our old furnace would do that. the flame would literally shoot 6 ft. into our laundry room. the thing burned my hand when i was walking past it.

[cwheels4]

Hey, save yourself some money, and just change them every 90 days. These contractors make u pay for just coming out to change a filter. We had to have our hot surface ignitor replaced, and this company wanted $300 for the part alone.