It is an old water heater, but I took the door off and peeked inside and discovered there was no flame. Following the instructions on the tank, I re-lit the pilot, but as soon as I let go of the ...

If your pilot light goes out, any appliance ignited by it won't work. Our expects explain the top reasons you may be ...

Cleveland Heights; Defective thermocouple can prevent furnace or water heater from working: The Weekly Fix. Updated: ; Jan. 30, 2015, 5:12 p.m. | Published: ; Jan. 30 ...

However, many ConsumerAffairs.com readers said their Whirlpool Flame Lock water heater worked less than six months before the thermocouple broke, followed by repeated malfunctions even after a ...

Turn off the gas supply to the unit and (after the pilot light has cooled) inspect the jet and thermocouple. To get a closer look you can unscrew the bracket that holds the components in place, ...

Thermocouples consist of a thin copper tube with a sensor on one end. The other end of the tube screws into the regulator. In use, the sensor is positioned in the flame of the pilot light.

Checking the flame verification control system is required as part of the troubleshooting process when a flame will not stay lit on a gas or oil furnace. Fuel oil heating furnaces use several types of ...

Thermocouples are invasive and can disrupt the flame and gather soot, triggering miscalculations. Thermocouple measurement precision is influenced by heat exchange via conduction and radiation, ...

If you need to measure the temperature of something, chances are good that you could think up half a dozen ways to do it, pretty much all of which would involve some kind of thermometer, thermistor… ...