You can no longer set the fire in an oil burner by seeing it.

Small and white and fluffy and red doesn't mean squat....


"Mark" wrote in message
oups.com...

can you look into the view port? (make SURE you close it tightly when
done looking)

too much air, fire is small and white and lots of heat goes up the flue

too little air and the fire is fluffy and red and smokey and lots of
soot

better to err on the side of a little too much air rather than too
little...

too little air also creates CO

get a probe thermometer that you can leave stuck into the flue pipe and
you can monitor the situation...

if it chages day to day you need to figure out if the oil or the air is
changing... you need the right combination of both...but you knew
that..

yeh I think the electrodes are pretty much not involved once it
ignites, so if it ignites ok probobably not an electrode problem...

Mark