LOCK OUT ON BECKET BURNER

dogg

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all the fine print says is push reset button,instead of all the friggin people saying call a tech,why dont they say the truth,I DONT KNOW HOW !!! MOROONS!!

Steamhead

To "Dogg", et al

That comment is way out of line. I know most of these guys, and can tell you they DO know how to reset these controls when they latch up. We don't put that information out because it really IS a safety issue. "Facing the Dragon" is never a good thing, and can burn a building down or kill someone or both.



If and when you ever take oil-burner training, they will make that point time and again.

billtwocase

Frank

I was wondering if i missed something, but now I see his post down below. I doubt he will be here long, and to dig this OLD post up, he must have way too much time on his hands. Giving out procedures to get controls out of latch up, would be like instructing someone on how to bypass a safety device in my eyes

Steamhead

I would have replied to that post directly

but for some reason I kept getting a "page does not exist" error. 

Steve Whitbeck

Dogg

I would say that the only person here that doesn't know how to reset an ignition control in hard lock out is probably the original poster and YOURSELF. Who looks stupid now???  As stated oil is more dangerous than any other fuel because you can ventilate gas and it will dissapate - oil will not.                                                   Years ago I was servicing an oil furnace that the customer had pushed the reset button once. (yeah right)

I performed an oil tune up ( nozzle, filter, electrode ajustment, ETC ) Was about to start the furnace and moved off to the side to not be in front of the furnace when it fired. Just before I hit the switch and looked to see where the customer was ( he had been watching me ) His head was in line with the draft diverter - I told him to step off to the side. He did and I hit the switch. I turn the power on just enough to get it to fire then I turn it off and let it burn itself out. Sometimes they will backfire - it did and blew the diverter door 10 feet and stuck into the drywall wall behind where the customer was standing.  That is why we won't tell anyone how to reset a hard lock out....

PoorConsumer

Some Help?

This is the first thread that comes up in Google when you search for help in unlocking a locked out reset for a Beckett burner. As a consumer . . . it did not really help me. What I finally figured out is that there is only one button on the burner controls, the reset button. If pressing it three times locks you out, then there must be SOME way using that same button to unlock it. Of course, the answer was to just hold the button down long enough (about thirty seconds) in my case, and it worked. Once I unlocked it, I opened the bleeder valve until I got a steady stream, then retightened the valve, and the burner has been working fine all day since then.



BTW, my entrie HVAC system (except the ducts) including my burner is less than four months old and stopped working the first time three days ago, and at that time I DID call the HVAC company which sold and installed the system, and they did "fix" it . . . for three days, until it stopped working again. Today I called them back and told them the problem returned but they are in no hurry to come back out and really fix it. Meanwhile, I have Thanksgiving guests who are cold, so I did what I had to do to get it working again today so we do not freeze while I wait until Monday for the install company to (maybe) come back out again. So maybe some of the pros do not like consumers doing these things themselves, and I get that. But when we cannot get proper and timely service from the professionals who installed the system, what are we supposed to do?



Anyway . . . I hope maybe this helps some other poor consumer who comes across this thread via a Google search.

Weezbo

Howdy Tommy oil

hope all is well with you and everyone who responded to this post back then ,

our job can be made precarious by not observing our standard operating proceedure based on someone word and enthusiasm to get the job done and heat rolling.

who would think that ?



Weezbo .

i am quadruple checking high co readings today...