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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 29, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Douglas D. Bird, Little Canada, MN (US);
Stephen J. Kemp, Eagan, MN (US);
Assignee:
Honeywell Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F23N 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F23N 3/00 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for and method for providing easy and rapid conversion from a first fuel to a second fuel in a gas appliance. The gas appliance has a variable fuel valve controlled by a microprocessor. A table stored in non-volatile memory has an entry for each of the fuels to be burned in the gas appliance. The table entries are empirically determined at the time of manufacture.