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burners, such automatic devices shall be of a type specifically
approved for use with the burner to which they are attached.
3. Each appliance fired by conversion oil burners, and each oil-fired unit,
shall be provided with automatic limit controls which will prevent
unsafe pressure or low water in a steam boiler or over-heating within a
hot-water boiler, furnace or heater.
4. Limiting controls and low water shut-offs intended to prevent unsafe
operation of heating equipment by opening an electrical circuit to the
burner of shut-off device shall be so arranged as to effect the direct
opening of that circuit whether the switching mechanism is integral
with the sensing element or remote from same.
5. A water heater shall be provided with water pressure, temperature,
and vacuum relief devices. Means shall be provided to prevent ship
honing in any boiler or tank to which any circulating water heater is
attached.
6. Electric motor-driven oil burners or a type not equipped with primary
safety controls with integral oil pumps and electric motor-driven pump
sets for use with such burner, not equipped with integral pumps, shall
be provided with a motor controller incorporating no-voltage
protection to be wired into the power supply to the motor.
7. In systems where either steam or air is used for atomizing the oil, or
where air for combustion is supplied by a source which may be
interrupted without shutting off the oil supply, the oil and atomizing or
air supply shall be interlocked in a manner to immediately shut off oil
supply upon failure of the atomizing or air supply.
8. Where automatically opened burners are used in installations
equipped with force or induced draft fans or both, means shall be
provided to immediately shut-off the oil supply upon fan failure.
9. Oil burners not equipped to provide safe automatic restarting after
shut down shall require manual restarting after any control function to
extinguish the burner flame.
10. Oil-fired appliances shall be installed in rooms that are large
compared with the size of the appliance specifically approved for
installation in a confined space such as an alcove or closet installation
is in compliance with the approval. In alcove and closet installations,
the clearances from the appliance to the walls and ceilings shall not
be less than specified in the approval regardless of the type of
construction.
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