I have a burner with a Beckett gun that's puzzling me with start up smoke/oder.
I don't believe it's a heat exchanger crack because the smoke is clearly coming out of the damper when the burner fires up.
I wasn't having any problems (that was aware of) but in December I changed the filters and the nozzle and after that I started noticing some smoke on start up. I thought maybe it was a bad nozzle, so I changed it again but it didn't help.
After that I pulled the filters and made sure there was a good seal, not sucking air.
I cleaned the chamber, exchanger tubes, pipes and the bottom of the chimney, mostly a waste of time as they weren't bad at all.
I checked the draft with a manometer and it seems fine while it's running.
I checked all my fittings, changed the electrodes, screen and even swapped in a new coil I had on the shelf.
Some years back I had a dribbling problem that was causing me to melt blast tubes. I installed a Tiger loop at the advice of people here and that solved that problem, so I don't think it's leaking into the chamber.
I did notice how long the motor/pump seemed to be spinning after the flame shut off, and started to think maybe I was pumping oil into the chamber. I installed a fuel stop valve , with a start up delay and that didn't change anything either.
Sooooo.... I'm about out of ideas. I was hoping for suggestions on what else I can check.
I don't believe it's a heat exchanger crack because the smoke is clearly coming out of the damper when the burner fires up.
I wasn't having any problems (that was aware of) but in December I changed the filters and the nozzle and after that I started noticing some smoke on start up. I thought maybe it was a bad nozzle, so I changed it again but it didn't help.
After that I pulled the filters and made sure there was a good seal, not sucking air.
I cleaned the chamber, exchanger tubes, pipes and the bottom of the chimney, mostly a waste of time as they weren't bad at all.
I checked the draft with a manometer and it seems fine while it's running.
I checked all my fittings, changed the electrodes, screen and even swapped in a new coil I had on the shelf.
Some years back I had a dribbling problem that was causing me to melt blast tubes. I installed a Tiger loop at the advice of people here and that solved that problem, so I don't think it's leaking into the chamber.
I did notice how long the motor/pump seemed to be spinning after the flame shut off, and started to think maybe I was pumping oil into the chamber. I installed a fuel stop valve , with a start up delay and that didn't change anything either.
Sooooo.... I'm about out of ideas. I was hoping for suggestions on what else I can check.
Help with smoke/smell on start up.
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