"Converting" an oil furnace to electric will not be economically practical. You'd be far better off getting a "ground source heat pump" and having someone install it for you. They're much more efficient than the older style electric heat that uses resistor heating elements.
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Sensitive equipment like a furnace machine requires the services of a qualified electrician. Call one to have the copper pad in the electric arc furnace machine fixed.
An oil furnace has a step up transformer to generate a spark to ignite the oil spray at the tip of the nozzle.
how and whydo iuse one wire to run my new electric furnace that says to use a spliter to attach to the 2 circuit brakers on the furnace. I cannot get it to work properly when I do
Every Electrical Furnace run by Electrical Current. Without electricity we can't use any type electric furnace. Sometechnical knowledge must be required for maintenance of electric furnace. Spare parts availability like Heating elements/resistance wire, Thermostat/Temperature controller (maybe Digital or Blind controller, Contactor, Insulators etc.
William siemens invented the early electric furnace