Good Morning All.
I have been lurking around here for a few months, reading up what I can for options for installing a wood boiler for the house that my wife and I purchased earlier this year.
First, let me say that I know that this forum isnt really for oil-fired anything, but given the range of experience that I see here for controls, water storage, temp control, etc. I wanted to ask for some opinions. Mods, if this isnt OK, please just let me know.
Im heating a ~2700 SF farmhouse that was built somewhere in the 1890s or so. As far as I know, no insulation in the walls, just bricks. There is some blown cellulose in the attic, and most of my windows are single pane. The boiler is a two year old New Yorker oil fired unit with ~80% efficiency, and the nozzle thats in it now I believe is rated for 125,000 BTU/hr.
My actual question is in regards to the way the boiler operates. When there is a call for heat, one of my two zone circulators fires up, then the burner fires. It will run until the boiler hits its high limit of 200F, then sits until it cools to 180F. So for the most part, it just keeps cycling on and off until the zone is satisfied.
The heat is delivered to the space by baseboard fin tube, which is on pretty much every exterior wall. My thoughts are that I have a flow problem, or there is a control problem on the boiler itself.
Can anyone offer any insight?
Much thanks!
I have been lurking around here for a few months, reading up what I can for options for installing a wood boiler for the house that my wife and I purchased earlier this year.
First, let me say that I know that this forum isnt really for oil-fired anything, but given the range of experience that I see here for controls, water storage, temp control, etc. I wanted to ask for some opinions. Mods, if this isnt OK, please just let me know.
Im heating a ~2700 SF farmhouse that was built somewhere in the 1890s or so. As far as I know, no insulation in the walls, just bricks. There is some blown cellulose in the attic, and most of my windows are single pane. The boiler is a two year old New Yorker oil fired unit with ~80% efficiency, and the nozzle thats in it now I believe is rated for 125,000 BTU/hr.
My actual question is in regards to the way the boiler operates. When there is a call for heat, one of my two zone circulators fires up, then the burner fires. It will run until the boiler hits its high limit of 200F, then sits until it cools to 180F. So for the most part, it just keeps cycling on and off until the zone is satisfied.
The heat is delivered to the space by baseboard fin tube, which is on pretty much every exterior wall. My thoughts are that I have a flow problem, or there is a control problem on the boiler itself.
Can anyone offer any insight?
Much thanks!