Hello everyone,
Trying to get off to a good start here. A neighbor gave me an old boiler (Steel King model 4800 b(h)).
I guess you would call it just a basic wood boiler, Its a 1983 year with a Triple Aquastat relay, a small blower on the back.
I have a water to air exchanger installed in my furnace , a simple PEX loop circulating the boiler water to the exchanger, a clear y strainer, and a stand pipe inside the house going up 8 feet above the loop piping.
I played around with it for a few days just to see what I wanted to do to set up the controls.
Then I discovered this site so...
Can anyone point me to some good info for a good basic design, vocabulary usefull information type spot.
I don't want to ask a bunch of questions till I know the basics.
To test what I've got, I have my furnace fan running all the time, the circulation pump running all the time. On a 20 degree day, without the blower on the back of the wood box running, half loaded with wood, it heats the water to around 100 degrees, the air coming out of the duct work is 80-82 degrees. That all gets the house a little too warm. Running that way for 8 hours it went to 75 inside the house, and I've got creosote dripping from the chimney.
So I figure I need to use the inducer blower to burn the wood hotter, keep my water warmer and control the furnace fan so I don't get the house so hot.
My worry is the 180 degree heat range written on the PEX, the 150 degree limit on my clear plastic y strainer, getting my furnace plenum to hot. It only takes 10-15 minutes to get the water from 100 to 140 turning on the fan in the back of the boiler fire box.
Thanks for looking at this and any help you might have.
Best regards,
John Forrest
Trying to get off to a good start here. A neighbor gave me an old boiler (Steel King model 4800 b(h)).
I guess you would call it just a basic wood boiler, Its a 1983 year with a Triple Aquastat relay, a small blower on the back.
I have a water to air exchanger installed in my furnace , a simple PEX loop circulating the boiler water to the exchanger, a clear y strainer, and a stand pipe inside the house going up 8 feet above the loop piping.
I played around with it for a few days just to see what I wanted to do to set up the controls.
Then I discovered this site so...
Can anyone point me to some good info for a good basic design, vocabulary usefull information type spot.
I don't want to ask a bunch of questions till I know the basics.
To test what I've got, I have my furnace fan running all the time, the circulation pump running all the time. On a 20 degree day, without the blower on the back of the wood box running, half loaded with wood, it heats the water to around 100 degrees, the air coming out of the duct work is 80-82 degrees. That all gets the house a little too warm. Running that way for 8 hours it went to 75 inside the house, and I've got creosote dripping from the chimney.
So I figure I need to use the inducer blower to burn the wood hotter, keep my water warmer and control the furnace fan so I don't get the house so hot.
My worry is the 180 degree heat range written on the PEX, the 150 degree limit on my clear plastic y strainer, getting my furnace plenum to hot. It only takes 10-15 minutes to get the water from 100 to 140 turning on the fan in the back of the boiler fire box.
Thanks for looking at this and any help you might have.
Best regards,
John Forrest