Re: Gas Pilot Sensor

["Frank Winans" <fwinans@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"FIRETEK" wrote
> When the pilot lights the main gas jets, you're
> liable to melt any "thermal switch" in the vicinity.
> "Frank Winans" wrote
> > just mount some metal in the pilot flame, and attach a
> > thermal switch on that metal, far enough back from the
> > flame that you don't burn up said switch.
> > Problem;  does it false-trigger when the room is too cold?
>
Hmm, the area below the burners seems fairly cool in the
gas appliances I've seen.  I was thinking of a fairly long
metal probe, but yes, this would take some trial-and-error...