Gas Burner Flame Quality with Home Humidifier
Topics:
- Will a humidifier or humidifier system installed with the home furnace affect surface burner flames?
- What will cause orange, uncrisp flames?
- High yellow or orange flame on all burners
- Abnormal or yellow flames
- Flame is orange
Answer:
A home humidifier can change the secondary air mixture resulting in an abnormal flame quality as shown below.
- This may cause the flame quality to be uncrisp and orange.
- This does not disrupt unit operation.
Troubleshooting:
Adjusting the setting on the home humidifier may impact flame quality. Factory Certified Service can adjust the flame to a certain extent, but there is no guarantee the flame quality issues will be eliminated.
- Turn the humidifier off for 24 hours and recheck flame quality.
- See also, Wolf Gas Surface Burner Flame Quality Issues.
- If these steps do not resolve the issue, no further troubleshooting advice is available. Contact Factory Certified Service to schedule an appointment for repair.
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