Rick Stanley said:Eeeeeasy Big Fella :bug:
heaterman said:One item of note here; if you are consistently running high temps you will want to keep a close eye on water quality in the Garn. When you run past the 190 mark it starts to degrade the chemical treatment in a shorter than normal length of time.
Rick Stanley said:I didn't know about this either. I did just look back in the operator's manual and it does say that 185* is the magic number as far as firing at that temp or higher runs a risk of hitting the boiling point which is a nuisance. No mention of the high temps lessening effect of chemicals. Thanks to Heaterman once again.
heaterman said:HA That's a familiar sight. My farmers boiler crew seems to do that about once a month. They have a penchant for over firing right after they top off the water level from what I have seen. Of course............their method of maintaining the water level is apparently to fill until it runs out the over flow. After that they will build a raging fire in the beasties to get the water temp up to 200* or higher. When it gets up that high I have seen water/steam literally jetting from the overflow and the whole building looking like a steam sauna. Kinda wreaks havoc on the moisture content of the wood stored in the room.
One item of note here; if you are consistently running high temps you will want to keep a close eye on water quality in the Garn. When you run past the 190 mark it starts to degrade the chemical treatment in a shorter than normal length of time.
Rick Stanley said:heaterman said:HA That's a familiar sight. My farmers boiler crew seems to do that about once a month. They have a penchant for over firing right after they top off the water level from what I have seen. Of course............their method of maintaining the water level is apparently to fill until it runs out the over flow. After that they will build a raging fire in the beasties to get the water temp up to 200* or higher. When it gets up that high I have seen water/steam literally jetting from the overflow and the whole building looking like a steam sauna. Kinda wreaks havoc on the moisture content of the wood stored in the room.
One item of note here; if you are consistently running high temps you will want to keep a close eye on water quality in the Garn. When you run past the 190 mark it starts to degrade the chemical treatment in a shorter than normal length of time.
This is interesting............
heaterman said:Rick Stanley said:heaterman said:HA That's a familiar sight. My farmers boiler crew seems to do that about once a month. They have a penchant for over firing right after they top off the water level from what I have seen. Of course............their method of maintaining the water level is apparently to fill until it runs out the over flow. After that they will build a raging fire in the beasties to get the water temp up to 200* or higher. When it gets up that high I have seen water/steam literally jetting from the overflow and the whole building looking like a steam sauna. Kinda wreaks havoc on the moisture content of the wood stored in the room.
One item of note here; if you are consistently running high temps you will want to keep a close eye on water quality in the Garn. When you run past the 190 mark it starts to degrade the chemical treatment in a shorter than normal length of time.
This is interesting............
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Rick Stanley said:heaterman said:Rick Stanley said:heaterman said:HA That's a familiar sight. My farmers boiler crew seems to do that about once a month. They have a penchant for over firing right after they top off the water level from what I have seen. Of course............their method of maintaining the water level is apparently to fill until it runs out the over flow. After that they will build a raging fire in the beasties to get the water temp up to 200* or higher. When it gets up that high I have seen water/steam literally jetting from the overflow and the whole building looking like a steam sauna. Kinda wreaks havoc on the moisture content of the wood stored in the room.
One item of note here; if you are consistently running high temps you will want to keep a close eye on water quality in the Garn. When you run past the 190 mark it starts to degrade the chemical treatment in a shorter than normal length of time.
This is interesting............
??
Just thought it interesting that we'd talked about, well I guess you had talked about, the dangers of running over 190, back when I overfired mine and posted pics of it
Beings as Garn states that only 9% of boilers are affected it might be ok. It would be nice to know why though. Like whats not in the water versus what is on affected units.It’s been running for two winters now and I know the guy has never sent in a water sample.
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