Hello,
This fall I installed a Econoburn 200k boiler. My heating prior to that installation was comprised of a energy kinetics system 2000 oil boiler with super store hot water. The boiler heated one zone of baseboard and one zone of radiant panels. I added a zone on in-slab radiant heat in the new kitchen addition at the same time as the wood boiler was installed. I am not running storage. After the initial installation I found that the system 2000 heating control would keep the zones open for up to 20 minutes after the thermostat stopped calling for heat. This feature seemed to work well with the lo volume cold start nature of the system 2000 when it was not tied in series to the wood boiler which was maintaining a constant temp of 165. Once a zone opened it would frequently drive the room temp to as much as 15 deg over the set temp particularly in the radiant panel zone. I alleviated the issues with thermal purging from the system 2000 by removing the controller and installing a bypass board which removed all the digital control of the system. This has kept the zones at the desired temp with no overshot but now the oil boiler only functions when the system temp drops below 140. the bypass board removed high low temp set on the oil boiler and it only heats to 140 and then shuts off. do any of you have any experience with energy kinetics system 2000 boilers and how did you integrate a wood boiler into the system?
This fall I installed a Econoburn 200k boiler. My heating prior to that installation was comprised of a energy kinetics system 2000 oil boiler with super store hot water. The boiler heated one zone of baseboard and one zone of radiant panels. I added a zone on in-slab radiant heat in the new kitchen addition at the same time as the wood boiler was installed. I am not running storage. After the initial installation I found that the system 2000 heating control would keep the zones open for up to 20 minutes after the thermostat stopped calling for heat. This feature seemed to work well with the lo volume cold start nature of the system 2000 when it was not tied in series to the wood boiler which was maintaining a constant temp of 165. Once a zone opened it would frequently drive the room temp to as much as 15 deg over the set temp particularly in the radiant panel zone. I alleviated the issues with thermal purging from the system 2000 by removing the controller and installing a bypass board which removed all the digital control of the system. This has kept the zones at the desired temp with no overshot but now the oil boiler only functions when the system temp drops below 140. the bypass board removed high low temp set on the oil boiler and it only heats to 140 and then shuts off. do any of you have any experience with energy kinetics system 2000 boilers and how did you integrate a wood boiler into the system?
