Wall Furnace Pilot Light

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Wall furnace pilot light.

Wall furnaces house a pilot light much like a water heater. An operational pilot light in your furnace means safety from the possibility of a gas leak. Standing pilot lights are common in older furnaces but many newer furnaces have intermittent pilot lights or hot surface igniters. Keep the knob in for 20 seconds and then release it and turn it to the on position.

Turn the gas control to pilot and hold it in while you light the flame with a match or a lighter. If your old gas furnace has a standing pilot you can follow a standard procedure to relight the pilot light. They do require maintenance as well but are much easier to maintain by homeowners. By cecilia harsch when the pilot on your wall furnace does not stay lit your furnace won t heat.

If the pilot light will not stay lit it needs to be fixed asap to supply heat to your home and for safety reasons. In this episode of repair and replace vance shows how to relight the pilot light in a standing pilot furnace. The pilot light is a small flame that is either lit manually and remains burning around the clock or is lit electronically via an igniter when the machine kicks on. There are numerous things that may make the pilot light on your furnace to not stay lit.

When the thermostat signals for gas to be delivered from the gas valve to the burner it is the standing pilot that ignites the gas flowing to the burners to heat the air in the combustion chamber. In these systems the pilot will only light in the case of hot surface igniters the igniter surface heats when the thermostat makes a command for heat. The pilot light in your gas furnace supplies heat to your home.