Re: Please help Burnham RSM-126 oil furnace won't heat hot water after vacation

 


when the burner tries to start, do you get a flame or not..

the problem is either

1) you get no flame and the saftey kicks out in which case you need to
determine why the flame won't ignite i.e. lack of fuel or lack of
ignition, lack of air etc.

2) you get a flame but the control system thinks that you are not
getting a flame...  then you need to troubleshoot the control system,
i.e. a dirty flame sensor, bad relay etc...

But the other guys are correct, if you screw up, you could cause big
trouble ...the main danger is everytime you press the red button, if
there is no flame, unburned fuel collects in the fire box, when you do
finally get it to light,  all that accumulated fuel will light all at
once and that can be very bad...

the other danger is don't do anything to defeat any saftey system,
they are there for a reason..

I think Audels has some good books.  Be careful

Mark

 

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:19:28 -0700 (PDT), Mark wrote:


Thank you. I was hoping for something like this.
I mean, take a car, admittedly a simple affair, but, let's take a car
engine.

If the engine isn't running, it's ALWAYS one of four things. It's never not
one of those four things. So, you go down, one by one, and you see if the
combustion chamber is getting each of those four things, in the right ratio
and the right time.

Sure, the ratio is 14:1, which is hard to measure, but, the point is that a
combustion chamber needs only a very few things to work, and, when it
doesn't work, there are usually simple diagnosis procedures that determine
if those very few simple things are there or not.

Am I making this clear or did I just muddy it all up (sometimes I think
it's clearer when I don't ramble on) .........

 



so which is it..

1 or 2

when the burner tries to start, do you get a flame or not?

Mark

 

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:27:36 -0700 (PDT), Mark wrote:


Hi Mark,
I should have mentioned that I'm currently at work. Hopefully I'll leave
early tonight as I have, for the first time in a while, a date so I have to
pretty myself up.

I will try tonight but if I don't have time, depending on how the date goes
I guess, LOL, I will certainly be able to try it out by the morning
Saturday.

THANK YOU for your help. I wish everyone were as helpful as you!

 

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:31:40 -0700, Donita Luddington wrote:


BTW, after I cleaned it, I certainly got a flame (it heated the water) but
it goes out after a while.

Does that help?