Power Flame has built burners in Parsons, Kansas, since 1948. Astec Industries acquired the company in 2016, and it still operates under the Power Flame name. Its gas, oil, and dual-fuel burners are common in commercial boiler rooms.
Many older Power Flame units run on mechanical linkage, which develops play as it wears. No setting holds on worn hardware, so on linkage burners we check the linkage, cams, and dampers for wear before tuning. Newer models are often on linkageless controls, where the settings are made in the control.
When an older burner's original flame safeguard fails and parts are hard to find, upgrading to a current control can keep the rest of the burner in service.
What we check on every startup or tune-up: fuel pressures against the burner's specification, the safety switches and limits, ignition and the flame signal, and the fuel-air ratio at each firing rate, measured with a calibrated combustion analyzer. You get the O2, CO, and efficiency readings before and after, in writing.
Common reasons to call: lockouts or flame failures that keep coming back, hard starts, high CO or soot, a burner that hasn't been tuned in over a year, or a burner coming back online after repairs, a fuel change, or a control replacement.
Related reading: Who Makes Commercial and Industrial Burners, Flame Safeguard Upgrades and What a Combustion Report Shows. See all of our services on the What We Do page.
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