Variable Speed Injection Mixing

Tombig_2

Paul, your drawings are always so concise. I remember the Knight/Tn4 set you shared with us. I was so impressed I downloaded the set for future perusal. Haven't looked at them since of course.

Do you scale the assembly as you're drawing it? Or was it just instinct that told you there was no room for the injection pump on the supply side? Do you assemble the panels in the shop? Is it usually built as you envisioned? A line on paper is always easier than an installed idea. That's one of my standard lines to the architects I deal with.

I just piped my first VSI in four years. I've been installing single temp mod-cons mostly. As usual I learned something new on The Wall today because of your question. Thanks

Tom G

Paul Rohrs_4

Anyone...

ever pipe the variable-speed injection-mixing circ on the return leg.

For the sake of argument, all tee's shown are closely spaced. I am running out of room on this project and the zone in question is for snow-melting. It seems like I could buy some much needed room if I placed my circ on the return leg of the injection mixing loop.

The bright yellow circle is not the "Sun", but a semi-crude attempt at highlighting the area in question. Crayons are my friend.

Regards,

PR

ALH_4

No Problem

Should make no difference at all.

Wayco Wayne_2

Nice drawing

What program do you use? I don't think it is a problem either. My only question is, where is the expansion tank in relation to it? I looks like your variable speed circ is on the secondary side of a heat exchanger. Why not make the primary side the variable speed, and have the system circ go throught he secondary side of the heat exchanger. Save a circ. WW

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hot_rod

That's how I do it

what goes into a tee must come out of a tee, regardless of the pump placement.

I've piped them on the return for many years.

Not that it makes a huge difference but it puts the circ in a much cooler fluid stream. Possibly 80F as opposed to 180F.

hot rod

Weezbo

Looks good to me...

Paul Rohrs_8

Visio

Wayne,

Still plugging away with the Visio program for drawings.

Paul

Glenn Sossin_2

Good Idea

Like that one.

Paul Rohrs_8

Actually

We mounted the 4x8 aluminum diamond plate on the wall and of course it starts to look smaller immediately. I have ge 3 separate Uponor Duomix-201 controls and a ton of low-voltage and sensor wiring to run, so I wanted to mount the controls and wiring gutter prior to the copper going up.

The "Canvas" has been substantially reduced even before one copper fitting goes on. I think moving that pump will buy us some more space, but I think the bigger space savings will come by using copper sweat fittings instead of copper propress. This is a 2" primary loop withlad 3 sets of 1" tapping for 3 different injection mixing zones.

Scale is something that I would like to do a better job with. Usually, that is not my priority and my CAD drawings say "No Scale". I have drawn quite a few of my own stencils that I can resize, but up til now, I haven't invested the time to make them scale.

This job will be piped on site, but usually I would prefer to pre-build them in the shop.

Thanks for all of the Kudo's, but I can honestly say that I learn something new from The Wall every day myself.

Regards,

PR

Kal Row

keep the injection circ..

cause you want max flow through snowmelt loops for even melting and not run glycol molasses through the tiny holes in the FPHX’s end tubes.

put #20 filter screens on both sides of the fphx, and make sure you have freeze protection on the fphx, a tekmar snowmelt control doesn’t give you freeze protection on the fphx, i.e. if the injection and the snowmelt pumps system are going and bringing 25F solution off the slab to your fphx and the boiler side pump is off, the cupful of fresh water on the other side of the plates will freeze real fast and bust your fphx, I use a Johnson Controls A419 (apx $77 street http://www.houseneeds.com/shop/manuals/johnsoncontrol_a419bulletin.pdf ) and just epoxy the sensor to the front of it

Weezbo

looks like a clean picture...

strainers are good.