Uploaded March 2015 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
Playing with this waste oil burner setup, I thought of a challenge a viewer proposed which was to see if I could get one of my oil burners to ran at as low an output as a gas burner.
This is the exact same setup running flat out on another vid I did recently. youtube.com/watch?v=7moRZNpK_BE
Quite a contrast of the output the same setup is doing here.
I thought it would be a very difficult if not impossible challenge but it seems it may be a lot more doable than what I first thought. I have run this oil burner as can be seen in my other heater and Furnace Vid at outputs around 150 to 200Kw so to run it this low is the same setup was surprising. Not like I really changed anything on the oil burner it self or did anything special to enable the oil burning to sustain at such a low output.
I'm not sure what the purpose of this would be in the context of metal melting we were talking about but it may be useful as a demonstration to other people whom are interested in using an oil burner for home heating, as a small shed heater or want a low output waste oil heater for other applications.
I was trying another configuration of this oil burner for a different type of burner I have in mind which could be modified to give free heat using waste oil in other applications.
Next i'll try downsizing one of these oil burners for home and shed heating applications or other furnace or foundry uses where small amounts of heat or flame are required.
Playing with this waste oil burner setup, I thought of a challenge a viewer proposed which was to see if I could get one of my oil burners to ran at as low an output as a gas burner.
This is the exact same setup running flat out on another vid I did recently. youtube.com/watch?v=7moRZNpK_BE
Quite a contrast of the output the same setup is doing here.
I thought it would be a very difficult if not impossible challenge but it seems it may be a lot more doable than what I first thought. I have run this oil burner as can be seen in my other heater and Furnace Vid at outputs around 150 to 200Kw so to run it this low is the same setup was surprising. Not like I really changed anything on the oil burner it self or did anything special to enable the oil burning to sustain at such a low output.
I'm not sure what the purpose of this would be in the context of metal melting we were talking about but it may be useful as a demonstration to other people whom are interested in using an oil burner for home heating, as a small shed heater or want a low output waste oil heater for other applications.
I was trying another configuration of this oil burner for a different type of burner I have in mind which could be modified to give free heat using waste oil in other applications.
Next i'll try downsizing one of these oil burners for home and shed heating applications or other furnace or foundry uses where small amounts of heat or flame are required.
