I have a gas fireplace that is operated by a light switch. It worked during an outage. Can anyone explain how?
Recently we had a pretty widespread power outage in Seattle. To my suprise and delight, my gas fireplace worked just fine. This seemed like a Christmas miracle because the fireplace turns on and off with an electric switch. I looked for a battery or something and didn’t see anything that resembled a battery. But I flicked the switch on and off and the fireplace responded completely normally. Can anyone explain how this works?
Sorry, it was not magic or a Christmas Miracle.
Your system is what is commonly referred to as a Millivolt, Powerpile, or Pilot Generator system. In lay person’s terms, it’s a standing pilot gas valve that functions by the use of very low voltage (millivoltage) that is produced by the heat of the standing pilot, through the use of what looks like a very large thermocouple (Powerpile Generator). Your switch simply allows this low voltage to open the main burner valve within the gas control valve.
So the gas portion of the system requires no outside electrical power, now if you tell me the blower motor came on as well we could be looking at a miracle.
The grill igniter, and hidden capacitor answers are absurd.
And, Holy Cow! Its technology that has been around for many years…. No need to miraculously resurrect Albert Einstein to figure it out. Anyone in the HVAC business will gladly explain it to you most likely with more detail than I have here.
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