Couple basic questions on my EKO

[James Ascherl]

I am buying a couple of Temp/Pressure gauges and am wondering if I can just thread them into a piece of 3/4" copper with a female adapter and tee it right off my 1.25" line.

I also plan on using a couple of aquastats. One on the pipe coming out of the top of my storage. Another I was thinking of installing on the outlet of my EKO. Someone posted a thread showing the aquastat right on top of the EKO. I noticed there is a plastic cap with black pipe plug underneath the cap right on top of the EKO. Can the aquastat be installed into that? What type of fitting do I need?

 

[Hydronics]

Hi,
You could do as you said. As I recall; the plugged bung on the top of the boiler aligns with the top panel. If you thread anything in there I don't think you'll be able to get the top panel off without removing it -something you may want to avoid.

 

[stee6043]

Why do you want to add the aquastat to the top of the EKO? The EKO controller already monitors the water jacket temp and can be used to control "any output" (usually the primary circ). Whatcha planning on using it for? Inquiring minds...

 

[James Ascherl]

I don't know, I saw someone had an EKO 40 and had the aquastat right on top of the EKO. I thinkit might have been for the emergency dump zone.