Do Electric Furnaces Have A Pilot Light

For many years furnaces used a small and continuously burning flame known as a pilot light to ignite the burners during every heating cycle.

Do electric furnaces have a pilot light. The furnace s electronic control board activates an electric igniter that uses a high voltage spark to light the pilot. The pilot uses a high voltage spark of electricity to ignite heat when the thermostat indicates that it s getting too cold. If your pilot lights release the ignition button and hold the smaller red button for one minute. Although pilot lights are still present in homes with older systems most newly installed furnaces use an electronic ignition instead.

In turn the pilot lights the gas for the burners. Once the burn cycle is complete both the burners and the pilot turn off.