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Fire on the wood boiler went out last night and did not re-ignite! Dam! Oil boiler was running when I got up this morning. Strange. I have had the Wood Gun be running when I got home from an eight hour day of work and it was warmer than it was last night. Quite a bit warmer. Why did it re-ignite then and not last night?
The temperature was down to 20 °F. Seems like there should have been enough call for heat to turn the boiler on more often. Could my tank be working against my Wood Gun's design to re-ignite? In other words. Could the fact that the circulation pump goes off between the boiler and tank at 165 °F resulting in this: When the demand for heat is called for the tank now supplies the heat to satisfy that demand leaving the boiler from not having to fire for a longer period of time. The tank supplies the heat long enough that the boiler has not had to fire for several hours and gets to cold to re-ignite fire.
Last night when I went to bed the Wood Gun and tank were both 180+ degrees. There was no call for heat coming from the house when I went to bed. I had a good size load of wood in when I went to bed. Slightly more than half full chamber. And when I added wood to it to get it to that point the boiler was running and hot.
Any suggestions? I use to have the circulation pump between boiler and tank set at 150. I recently changed that to 165. Could this result in the tank alone suppling heat for a longer period of time? Resulting in boiler ceramics and entire wood chamber getting cooler and less likely to restart fire?
Fire on the wood boiler went out last night and did not re-ignite! Dam! Oil boiler was running when I got up this morning. Strange. I have had the Wood Gun be running when I got home from an eight hour day of work and it was warmer than it was last night. Quite a bit warmer. Why did it re-ignite then and not last night?
The temperature was down to 20 °F. Seems like there should have been enough call for heat to turn the boiler on more often. Could my tank be working against my Wood Gun's design to re-ignite? In other words. Could the fact that the circulation pump goes off between the boiler and tank at 165 °F resulting in this: When the demand for heat is called for the tank now supplies the heat to satisfy that demand leaving the boiler from not having to fire for a longer period of time. The tank supplies the heat long enough that the boiler has not had to fire for several hours and gets to cold to re-ignite fire.
Last night when I went to bed the Wood Gun and tank were both 180+ degrees. There was no call for heat coming from the house when I went to bed. I had a good size load of wood in when I went to bed. Slightly more than half full chamber. And when I added wood to it to get it to that point the boiler was running and hot.
Any suggestions? I use to have the circulation pump between boiler and tank set at 150. I recently changed that to 165. Could this result in the tank alone suppling heat for a longer period of time? Resulting in boiler ceramics and entire wood chamber getting cooler and less likely to restart fire?