Installing a Tekmar 260

[dougcarlo]

Has anyone installed one of these for their oil boiler? Have you noticed any savings? Thanks

 

[btuser]

I recently installed one on my own boiler, no hard evidence yet. Definately a more even heat. They say it works and it cost me $150 (left-over stock) so what the heck, lets give it a shot. Payback for me will be one year (if any) but it would be hard to justify a $700-800 install because I'm only burning about 1150 gallons/year.

 

[dougcarlo]

Can you tell me where I can get one for $150? I have only found them for $350 on the net.

 

[btuser]

Can you tell me where I can get one for $150? I have only found them for $350 on the net.

Craigslist. Some one in Mass had two of them new in the box and shipped one to me for $150. You can find people taking them out as they upgrade to boilers that have inherent setback controls (buderus, weil mclain ultra) for cheap.

Neat little controls but I wish they would add multiple zone imputs to them as well. I'd like the tekmar to know whether I have one zone or 4 zones firing at once. Right now it can only tell it there's a call for heat or a call for DHW. I don't know how its going to react and what's going to happen to the reset curve when we get a cold snap down to 10 and all my thermostats start calling because I haven't built a fire before 3PM. I think that would help out with setback thermostats. They suggest you don't use setback, or if you do get smart ones that learn how long it recovery takes (luckily I bought them without knowing it).