The anticpators have an adjustment to match it to the furnace controls
in question. Standard install checkout procedure is to measure the
current, set the anticipator accordingly. That goes for the old standing
pilot models as well as the modern microprocessor controlled versions.

Wes wrote:
Don Foreman wrote:

Even the venerable Honeywell
"round" (T-87), which has been around for over 50 years, did and does
a surprisingly good job of this by virtue of it's anticipator --
which almost nobody outside of their engineering org really completely
understood.

Did the old standing pilot type furnaces tend to draw about the same current from one
model to another to turn the burner on? I always thought it was clever getting a bit of
heat via resistance to 'anticipate' when to turn off the burner.

Wes