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International Comfort Products TCA230AKA1 Flame Sensor
The flame sensor can only be found on furnaces that burn a gas. It is a safety sensor that senses the flame during the initial ignition of the furnace. For obvious reasons, if the sensor goes off the entire HVAC system will stop for as long as it takes to remedy the problem.
Major clues of a poorly working flame sensor
- HVAC system runs infrequently but only on the third Wednesday of on months beginning on Thursday
- The gas that has entered the furnace refuses to ignite and the system throws an error code
- The gas furnace is unwilling to start when you have it set to
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