Hi everyone,
I joined the forum late last fall after lurking most of the spring and summer. Well as this spring comes on, I'm getting real close to starting my own boiler project.
Next Tuesday, the company I'll be getting my boiler through is coming out for what will probably be the last visit before I buy the boiler. I've read the simple pressurized storage sticky a few times and the scenarios described and how things should work really seem to make sense. My setup will be slightly different however, so I want to make sure things still apply. Basically, I'm going to show the sticky to the installer and say "I want mine to work like this".
So my setup will be with unpressurized storage and I do not have an indirect hot water heater at this time. My guess (and what I'm hoping people will say) is buy an IDW and everything else should apply.
Otherwise I don't understand how I can handle the no fire, cold storage, call for heat scenario. If I leave my aquastat as it is now, the boiler will cycle off and on all day to maintain the boiler temp even if there isn't a call for heat. Also, if there was a call for heat and storage was cold, I wouldn't want my boiler trying to heat up 820 gallons of water...
Before I knew about gassification wood boilers, and I was trying to look into ways to cut down on oil, I had the oil company out here and they said my boiler could be programmed for "cold start" with an IDW.
Please let me know what you think.
I joined the forum late last fall after lurking most of the spring and summer. Well as this spring comes on, I'm getting real close to starting my own boiler project.
Next Tuesday, the company I'll be getting my boiler through is coming out for what will probably be the last visit before I buy the boiler. I've read the simple pressurized storage sticky a few times and the scenarios described and how things should work really seem to make sense. My setup will be slightly different however, so I want to make sure things still apply. Basically, I'm going to show the sticky to the installer and say "I want mine to work like this".
So my setup will be with unpressurized storage and I do not have an indirect hot water heater at this time. My guess (and what I'm hoping people will say) is buy an IDW and everything else should apply.
Otherwise I don't understand how I can handle the no fire, cold storage, call for heat scenario. If I leave my aquastat as it is now, the boiler will cycle off and on all day to maintain the boiler temp even if there isn't a call for heat. Also, if there was a call for heat and storage was cold, I wouldn't want my boiler trying to heat up 820 gallons of water...
Before I knew about gassification wood boilers, and I was trying to look into ways to cut down on oil, I had the oil company out here and they said my boiler could be programmed for "cold start" with an IDW.
Please let me know what you think.