Desa International, Inc.

Hugh W McCoy

Gregory L Sibalich

A fuel oil burner utilizing a hot surface ignition with an ignitor that is fully sintered and has essentially no porosity, a voltage phase regulator circuit for applying rectified half-wave AC line voltage, full-wave rectified AC, or either half-wave or full-wave rectified AC line voltage to the ignitor to supply power thereto, and AC line voltage to a blower motor, an AC-to-DC converter, a DC voltage preregulator, and a DC voltage regulator for providing twelve volts DC for operation of a control circuit that has a first time constant circuit for preheating the ignitor and maintaining the ignitor at consistent ignition temperature for a predetermined ignition trial time period and a second time constant circuit for driving second and third motor drive circuits. The third motor drive circuit energizes the start winding of the blower motor and the second motor drive circuit energizes the main winding of the blower motor thus starting the motor and providing fuel to the combustion chamber during a predetermined time concurrent with the ignition trial period. At that time, a third time constant circuit either maintains the fan blower motor in its energized state, if a flame of sufficient magnitude and frequency is detected, or de-energizes the blower motor, if the flame is not detected in less than one second after the ignitor is de-energized. A lock-up circuit is provided such that if no flame is detected, restart is accomplished only by first removing power and then reapplying power to the unit. The unit can be restarted in this manner even if there is a flame in the combustion chamber. Also, a shutdown circuit is provided if the flame detector shorts during burner operation.

Power phase regulator circuit improvement motor start switch

Power phase regulator circuit improvement, motor start switch,

A fuel oil burner utilizing a hot surface ignition with an ignitor that is fully sintered and has essentially no porosity, a circuit for applying AC line voltage to the ignitor and to a blower motor, an AC-to-DC converter for providing twelve volts DC for operation of a control circuit that has a first time constant circuit for preheating the ignitor and maintaining the ignitor at an ignition temperature for a predetermined ignition trial period of time, a second time constant circuit for starting the blower motor and providing fuel to the combustion chamber for a predetermined time concurrent with the ignition trial period, and a third time constant circuit that either maintains the fan blower in its energized state if a flame of sufficient magnitude and frequency is detected and for de-energizing the blower motor if the flame is not detected in less than one second after the ignitor is de-energized. A lock-out circuit is provided such that if no flame is detected, the unit cannot be restarred without first removing power and then reapplying power to the unit.

Hot surface ignition controller for fuel oil burner

A primary control unit and ignitor using a microprocessor for fuel and ignition control and intelligent flame monitoring of a fuel burning device such as kerosene fired heaters. The control unit will function with a voltage supply ranging from 30 to 264 volts, 50 or 60 hertz. It has intermittent ignition resulting in reduced electromagnetic interference and longer spark plug life. The ignitor circuit is isolated from the DC power supply to prevent any common mode electromagnetic interference.

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Bowling Green, KY, United States of America

Hugh W McCoy