How can you detect the presence of a flame without a fancy commercial device? In this post I will describe how to build cheap flame sensors at home with a couple of methods. Second Method: Secondly, ...

Flame Rectification So to quickly recap, flame rods are used to confirm that a pilot flame is present. Flame rods work due to the ionization/rectification process to complete a circuit. When the flame ...

A naked flame is a complex soup of ionised gases, that possesses an unexpected property. As you might expect with that much ionisation there is some level of electrical conductivity, but the unusua… ...