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BY GEORGE LANTHIER

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Figure 11

70200 you can program your inducer and burner motor-off delays and the length of your pre-purge.

One note of caution: be sure to verify the amperage draw of your motors, it cannot exceed 10 amps total. With PSC oilburner motors your running amperage is about two amps and that can double at the start. With inducers however, residential split-phase motors still found on inducers can draw as much as five amps that can also double on start so check them! If worse comes to worse,

Figure 12 you can always switch your motors through a contactor like they do on commercial burners.

In Figure 11 we show a switching relay or‘ RIB’ relay. Using this relay and the wiring shown in Figure 12 you can easily control and power the burner motor and inducer motor without destroying the relay from an overloaded contact.

If you use these components properly, you will have total control of the inducer and burner, but more importantly you will be able to have that necessary draft all of the time. Good draft makes for good burner operation. As I said, from going on so many jobs over the years it bothers me to have found that most of them all had the right equipment, what they were missing was the right controls. l FON

George Lanthier is the owner of Firedragon Academy. For more information, visit www. FiredragonEnt. com.

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