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Re: Curious about combustion analysis?
With that flame, I would definitely break out my combustion analyzer, draft gauge and thermometer. Something is wrong with that flame.
Have you looked at the heat exchanger with an inspection mirror? There may be a blockage in between the boiler sections .
Is the chimney drafting properly?
Re: No 1 Ideal Sectional Boiler from American Radiator Company on house built in 1926
UEi C155 Eagle 2X Combustion Analyzer Kit with Printer. It came with the original instructions. Your boiler should have a small hole in the exhaust pipe for the rod to fit. This is a pic from the internet on a newer system below. And the second pic is of the back of mine where the hole is located since we both have older more beefy systems. Yours might already have this back there.
A great HVAC youtube I enjoy is “Mikey Pipes”. It was actually because of him I search Ebay for my own combustion analyzer.
Hope this helps!
Re: Help over filled boiler
that’s the right one, or I should say “a right one”. Keep draining
If you are above the gauge glass then it will be several gallons to drain. Maybe 5, maybe more.
Did water shoot out the radiator vents?
Re: Swing Joint on steam main
This might be a better design, just keep everything sloping back to the boiler return.
Or perhaps a different trap will work.
Re: 2 Pipe Steam Radiator / Blower Unit
that is called a unit heater. make sure it has the capacity to do what you are trying to do with it. the motor can probably be replaced if it were to fail. the fan is probably controlled by an aquastat on the piping somewhere
mattmia2
Re: new crown gas fired steam boilers - water needed every week
Boiler 1’s main vent is insufficient as was pointed out by another poster. It’s that skinny chrome one near the ceiling. I don’t think I’ve seen boiler 2’s
It's in the pictures, same thing: just stuck on the end of a reducing tee.
Re: Taping the seams of oil boiler exhaust pipe vent pipe?
I've worked on those boilers with both the Beckett AFG (which you have), and the Carlin 100. The Valiant is a PITA to clean (top and front access), and the burner absolutely needs adjustment. And an analyzer tells you what needs adjustment.
I would recommend an oil delay valve for pre and post purge. The existing primary can be programmed to accept it.
HVACNUT
Re: Why are some 2 pipe rads supplied from the top, and others from the bottom?
The steam will rise to the top. it will fill diagonally across from the inlet end to the opposite end if the tops of the sections are connected, if the sections are only connected at the bottom it will fill one section at a time starting at the inlet side, once a section is full it will spill out in to the next section.
mattmia2
Re: What are these steam traps for?
I looks like they're there to get rid of condensate that gets trapped when the zone valves close. Without them the steam would hammer that water every time the valves opened on a call.
Grallert
Re: thermostats in parallel
The product in your link appears that it would work in the same method as any thermostat, so I don't see why you can't wire it in parallel with your primary thermostat to guarantee that the temperature will never fall below 50.
