Hi,
I wanted to ask if anyone knows much about the type of gas fire which has coals above the flames. The one my parents have has huge yellow flames which reach the very top of the fire and lick into the opening to the flue. Also when the main burner ignites from the pilot, it catches with a whoosh and almost takes your eyebrows away.
The coals are being consumed by the huge yellow flames very fast, leaving carbon all over the burner in big wads, and the yellow flames are coating all the fire above the coals with soot.
From the bit I've learnt at work, I would think the gas pressure is too high or not enough air is premixing with the burner gas to explain it. Would that be right?
Incidentally, they're not sure if the fire was advertised as running on LPG although here it is on a bottle of butane. As far as I know, LPG is a mix of propane and butane, so the operating pressure and thus the burner jet must be different to operate on just butane I assume?
I wanted to ask if anyone knows much about the type of gas fire which has coals above the flames. The one my parents have has huge yellow flames which reach the very top of the fire and lick into the opening to the flue. Also when the main burner ignites from the pilot, it catches with a whoosh and almost takes your eyebrows away.
The coals are being consumed by the huge yellow flames very fast, leaving carbon all over the burner in big wads, and the yellow flames are coating all the fire above the coals with soot.
From the bit I've learnt at work, I would think the gas pressure is too high or not enough air is premixing with the burner gas to explain it. Would that be right?
Incidentally, they're not sure if the fire was advertised as running on LPG although here it is on a bottle of butane. As far as I know, LPG is a mix of propane and butane, so the operating pressure and thus the burner jet must be different to operate on just butane I assume?