New boiler is now 170/Storage Tank 160. House warm. :)

It was 37 here yesterday and I was tempted but I'll wait another week or so.

Good luck with the learning curve....I think my "curve" lasted the full 1st year! I've been running the WG on oil since Friday...maybe I would have run wood if I had storage. I'm hoping the forecast is accurate for later this week...this dampness/rain is getting OLD!

I've dumped some heat into the floor twice so far.....been burning the Garn all summer for DHW...so it was just a tweak of my warm weather shutdown temp....There is something so wonderful about stepping onto a nice warm floor. It is like instantaneous whole body warmth. Love it!

Dude... From one boiler nerd to another congrats.... You will enjoy the wood gun, and it will take some tweaking but in the end you and the wife will be happy. I was buying 1700 gallons of oil per year before 2008, now ... none and i'm smiling all the way. Look up some past posts regarding the upper burn chamber, dont let it become full of charcoal. Yours if different due to hydronic vs steam. Enjoy your beers!

Jealous! Not so much for the cold and rain but for the Gun fired up.
I keep walking in the garage and just stare at mine and cant wait to hook it up.
I call my HVAC sub and he is coming over to see what he will charge to hook it up.
My wife says eyeballs will fall out if I stay on this forum any longer!!

Cant NOT go on it. I have it on myBlackberry andI jump on all day long to see whats happening.

So do you have a diagram of how you hooked yours up. You did it parallel right?

Why is that better? I thought in series is better so it keeps the oil beast warm in case it has to fire up. (which I hope I can never let happen)

This is just from my own limited experience, but my thoughts have been that whatever furnace has the domestic hot water coil in it is the one that should stay warm all year (but the wood gun might be designed for that). So if I had an oil furnace with a coil in it, I'd keep it warm all year even if that coil was not needed in the winter for hot water. But I'd check with the manufacturer first before building a system around that advice. I have seen that whenever a unit with a coil in it cools off, there are bound to be leaks - especially with repeated cool downs/warm ups. When I re-do my system, I will be getting the smallest cheapest cold start oil boiler I can for back up & summer DWH and hooking it and the wood unit up to an indirect hot water tank as a zone. I think also if I had a wood gun I'd consider putting my oil burner in the wood gun & doing away with the extra furnace, even with summer heat loses from keeping it warm all year.

Unless more researching leads me to change my mind again, that happens a lot...

Biggest reason to run in parallel I think is the loss up the chimney keeping the oil boiler warm. I have mine in series, but I also have a direct vent chimney on the oil boiler, i.e. I have a 4' chimney, so there is minimal draft if any when it isn't firing. When it gets colder I'll try and see if I can determine how much I am losing up the vent, but I think it is minimal.