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oil burner runs on empty

Hollis
Hollis Member Posts: 105
in THE MAIN WALL
I have two oil tanks and was switching one over and the big dummy forgot to turn the the other one on. So in a while the oil burner was running dry, I didn't notice for a while but it started up w/o repriming and I didn't think much more about it until later. Should it have shut down? (cad cell?) When there was no flame?

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  • Paul Fredricks_9
    Paul Fredricks_9 Member Posts: 315


    From what you are saying, it sure sounds like it should have shut down. sometimes valves don't close as much as you think they do. Are it sure there was no flame?

    Probably a good idea to have it checked out.
  • Brad White_203
    Brad White_203 Member Posts: 506
    The last time

    fire continued to burn without having apparently enough oil (for eight days in fact), was well over 2,000 years ago.

    Time for celebration, I would say :)
  • don_185
    don_185 Member Posts: 312
    scary stuff

    I've seen about three cadcell failure in my travel and they were not good.

    Two were on system that lost the transformer.

    One was on a big boiler at a church with a steel firebox that held about 200 gallon of oil before the pastor turn off the burner switch.

    Another was on a home with a downflow oil furnace and all the oil ran down into the duct work under the house.
    Its a good thing they only had a 250 gallon tank.

    You really should have it check.

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