It is a quick task that could prevent a costly call-out bill at the coldest time of the year ...

If your gas furnace keeps cycling on and then turning off within a minute or so, it might be the result of a dirty flame sensor. Most gas furnaces have a small sensor designed to shut off the furnace ...

How can you detect the presence of a flame without a fancy commercial device? In this post I will describe how to build cheap flame sensors at home with a couple of methods. Second Method: Secondly, ...

A minimum amount of hardware is needed to build a simple flame or fire failure monitor that enables you to monitor the status of the flame in a chamber/furnace. Owing to its integrated alarm generator ...

A naked flame is a complex soup of ionised gases, that possesses an unexpected property. As you might expect with that much ionisation there is some level of electrical conductivity, but the unusual ...