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Servicewiz_2
Servicewiz_2 Member Posts: 28
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Does anyone have the drawing on sharing oil lines.It has to do with 2 oil fired appliances and the supply of one is tapped off the return of the other.This is so the oil pumps dont fight each other.Thanks for any help!!!

Servicewiz

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  • bluenose_31
    bluenose_31 Member Posts: 3
    avoid

    I don't have the diagram your looking for but I try to avoid having two appliances feed off one line unless it is gravity flow,then they shouldn't fight each other. This is set for single line now?
  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 19,458


    Every burner works best with it's own suction line. A common return is ok. I saw a drawing of the system you mention but have never tried it andd can't remember where I saw it. I wouldnt recomend it though.


    ED
  • Robert O'Brien
    Robert O'Brien Member Posts: 3,584
    You

    take the return line from unit 1 into suction port of unit 2.Return from unit 2 goes to to tank. Each unit needs its own oil filter and the return line must be deep into tank. I've done this many times over the years and never a problem.Lindy Lindveit wrote an article detailing this about 20 years ago in FOOH magazine.

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