Good day everyone. I have stalked the forums for a few years now and learned a great deal from reading endless hours on them. A little background here, I purchased a 7 year old Wood Gun E100 2 years ago and had a local boiler guy install it. He did a beautiful Froling install with what looks like 1000 gallons of storage about 2 miles from me with all the sensors and valves and every one of the 100 different items that go along with a large confusing system.
That being said, we didn't modify my system much at all. I have a house built in the early 80's, with 2400 sq ft and 100% hot water baseboard. Its a simple system on one circulator and two zone valves, one for upstairs and one for downstairs. I have an LP boiler which seems to heat the house just fine, but the budget plan cost is outrageous to say the least. We insulated the attached garage and installed the Wood Gun in there. It is simply piped through the LP boiler. It simply circulates the heated water through the boiler. The boiler fan turns on, the circulators turn on, the zone valves open and close as they should....it just never requires the boiler to actually fire on propane because the temperature is already met. The system works flawlessly.
Now, I have read endless hours on here, and completely understand the need and value in storage. My wife has allowed me to begin budgeting adding storage to the system to increase the boiler efficiency and limit short cycling. My main questions have to do with the storage. The Wood Gun has 60 gallons of built in storage and is advertised as being able to run without additional storage...great marketing ploy btw. The way my system is designed, my brain doesn't understand why I can't just install a storage tank in line with a larger expansion tank, which just increases the volume of water that my system is keeping at temperature. This would decrease the short cycling that my boiler experiences, decrease any creosote buildup that has happened, and hopefully decrease my wood consumption at least a little. Please help me understand why all the systems I see are so much more confusing and the benefits or disadvantages to both my idea and the more confusing systems.
That being said, we didn't modify my system much at all. I have a house built in the early 80's, with 2400 sq ft and 100% hot water baseboard. Its a simple system on one circulator and two zone valves, one for upstairs and one for downstairs. I have an LP boiler which seems to heat the house just fine, but the budget plan cost is outrageous to say the least. We insulated the attached garage and installed the Wood Gun in there. It is simply piped through the LP boiler. It simply circulates the heated water through the boiler. The boiler fan turns on, the circulators turn on, the zone valves open and close as they should....it just never requires the boiler to actually fire on propane because the temperature is already met. The system works flawlessly.
Now, I have read endless hours on here, and completely understand the need and value in storage. My wife has allowed me to begin budgeting adding storage to the system to increase the boiler efficiency and limit short cycling. My main questions have to do with the storage. The Wood Gun has 60 gallons of built in storage and is advertised as being able to run without additional storage...great marketing ploy btw. The way my system is designed, my brain doesn't understand why I can't just install a storage tank in line with a larger expansion tank, which just increases the volume of water that my system is keeping at temperature. This would decrease the short cycling that my boiler experiences, decrease any creosote buildup that has happened, and hopefully decrease my wood consumption at least a little. Please help me understand why all the systems I see are so much more confusing and the benefits or disadvantages to both my idea and the more confusing systems.
. It's also not legal to drive 70 in a 65, or wear slippers in public past 10 pm. Shall we discuss? The question at hand though, regarded the concept of storage, and why I can't just put a giant tank in my loop from the wood boiler to the lp boiler and just heat more water to temperature without all the complicated additions in all of these systems I see.
