Gas Furnace Pilot Light Switch

Lighting the pilot should only take a few.

Gas furnace pilot light switch.

This video is part of the heating and cooling series of training videos made to accompany my web. Usually there is a selector on the furnace that has a setting called pilot which is used to re light the pilot. A pilot light going out can be inconvenient because it will completely cripple your furnace. This one covers how to light the pilot on the gas furnace.

On a typical gas furnace the pilot light is a small gas flame that acts both as an ignition source for a larger burner within the furnace as well as an indicator of whether your furnace is actually burning and producing heat. Most furnaces with an electronic ignitor switch operate much the same way. A pilot light is the small blue flame that ignites the burner in your furnace. A pilot light on a furnace can sometimes go out for no reason at all and oftentimes all you must do is reignite the pilot light to get the furnace running again.

Once enough time has passed for any lingering gas to dissipate it is safe to light your furnace pilot light. Turn the switch to pilot as you hold the reset button bring a flame close to the pilot light opening.