Hello everybody,
So, I have had the blue beast sitting in my basement for over a year. It's probably time to get it installed. Here is my situation. I currently have an oil boiler with domestic coil. My house is basically in two halves (no not three halves) Each half has 600sqft on each floor (basement, 1st floor and 2nd floor) Basement is half in slab radiant and half modine unit. 1st floor is all staple up radiant. 2nd floor is half staple up and half baseboard. The half that is baseboard rarely calls for heat. I have a 500gal lp tank for storage
My currently thinking is to plumb the EB150 in series with the ob and utilize the existing domestic coil. It seems like most of the diagrams I've seen plumb the two boilers parallel. (Am I understanding this correctly - Parallel would maintain the ob cold until it was needed and series would maintain the ob at operating temp.) What are the cons of series plumbing? I would like to avoid an indirect dhw heater if it is feasible. Once I get a basic strategy I would like to bug you guys about some more specific plumbing questions.
Thank you in advance for your input
Travis
So, I have had the blue beast sitting in my basement for over a year. It's probably time to get it installed. Here is my situation. I currently have an oil boiler with domestic coil. My house is basically in two halves (no not three halves) Each half has 600sqft on each floor (basement, 1st floor and 2nd floor) Basement is half in slab radiant and half modine unit. 1st floor is all staple up radiant. 2nd floor is half staple up and half baseboard. The half that is baseboard rarely calls for heat. I have a 500gal lp tank for storage
My currently thinking is to plumb the EB150 in series with the ob and utilize the existing domestic coil. It seems like most of the diagrams I've seen plumb the two boilers parallel. (Am I understanding this correctly - Parallel would maintain the ob cold until it was needed and series would maintain the ob at operating temp.) What are the cons of series plumbing? I would like to avoid an indirect dhw heater if it is feasible. Once I get a basic strategy I would like to bug you guys about some more specific plumbing questions.
Thank you in advance for your input
Travis