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What am I doing wrong

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  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    no
    system 116/116
    flame 58%
    outside 31
    inside 71
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    remember i have new boiler old stock, I think 2011
    the version on there probably needs to be updated. Or maybe it doesn't need it.
    I can't imagine that my smart phone would work on this boiler
  • Gordy
    Gordy Member Posts: 9,546
    It won't, but it would be a nice option wouldn't it?
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    my knee is getting stronger
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    I just checked, there is an apt for Lochinvar
  • Gordy
    Gordy Member Posts: 9,546
    So how did you blow your knee out?
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    116/116
    63% flame
    outside 31
    inside 72
    basement radiator is cold
  • Gordy
    Gordy Member Posts: 9,546
    Con x us
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    what is con x us?
  • Gordy
    Gordy Member Posts: 9,546
    The lochinvar app that lets you do exactly what I was saying, but your boiler needs the board to do so.
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    oh, ok, no need for it
    the app I saw, said Lochinvar
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    do you think i am tuned better than before?
    Any other suggestions, that i need to do?
  • Gordy
    Gordy Member Posts: 9,546
    its suppose to drop to 3* tonight out here so see how things go.
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    I have to stay up all night?
    this is what you do with your customers?
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    just checked the weather, only in the teens for tomorrow, no single digets tonight
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    116/116
    60% flame
    31 outside 72 inside
  • Gordy
    Gordy Member Posts: 9,546
    edited November 2015
    Your improving yes. if you get up in the morning, and inside temp rises, or falls inside you now know what to do. Remember do small adjustments now don't do big ones.
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    radiator is very cold in basement, the supply is warm, return is cold
    before I had heat from the radiator but not tuned.
    going at 100%
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    should i still keep the thermostat at a temperature that i would like?
  • Gordy
    Gordy Member Posts: 9,546
    Remember your going from trying to warm the room in a short period of time to just injecting enough btus to off set the heat loss. Radiators won't feel as warm.
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    sorry, higher than what I would like
    I understand they will not feel as warm, but it will give me constant temp in my house
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    do i want to keep the thermostat higher than i would want tonight?
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    the thermometer in the kitchen is reading the outdoor temp at 25
    but the boiler was reading 31
  • Gordy
    Gordy Member Posts: 9,546
    Yes for a few days. It's,suppose to warm up next week see what happens then. When it gets really cold you may have to tweak it a little more same process.

    Really once set you could leave the thermostat at 85 it would not matter the ODR is controlling everything. The thermostat just acts,as a high limit if the room it's in gets a lot of sun, or say you had a wood burner.
    SWEI
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    why is my radiator in the basement not heating up?
  • Gordy
    Gordy Member Posts: 9,546
    Was it before?
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    yes, when the boiler was not tuned, and running at 100 %
    but it was comfortable in there. I did not have the radiator running before, and i moved it to the laundry room
  • Gordy
    Gordy Member Posts: 9,546
    What did you change tonight besides parameters for ODR?
  • Paul48
    Paul48 Member Posts: 4,469
    At any outdoor temperature, your house requires a certain number of btus to maintain a temperature of say 70*. You're fine tuning the system to provide just enough heat. The t-stat would act like a hi-limit and shut the boiler down, and you don't want that. So, you just crank it up high and take it out of the picture. If the temp climbs above your comfort level, you adjust the outdoor curve. If it drops below, you adjust it.
    SWEI
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    the house is comfortable now a little out of balance, but not terrible, but that radiator in the basement, I really was hoping it would work, it's my laundry room.
    Above it, is where I am now, and it's very comfortable here

    thanks Paul
    i don't think I changed anything else, other than move the valve in the stat room
  • Gordy
    Gordy Member Posts: 9,546
    Pump speed.
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    114/114 system
    55% flame
    outside it says 32 ( I wonder if it's off)
    upstairs it says 25
    inside 72
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    pump speed is low,
    your right, i did change that
    it was on high before tonight
    when it was on high, the system took longer to heat up
    does that make sense?
    but your right, i did change that, i forgot
  • Gordy
    Gordy Member Posts: 9,546
    Pump speed
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    I am almost right above the downstairs radiator, it's very nice up here, but the radiator is cold downstairs.
    should i change the pump speed to high?
  • Gordy
    Gordy Member Posts: 9,546
    Your sensor keeps saying 32 it should be dropping. Did you do an ohm check when installed per install manual. Is it on the north side of the house where it does not get sun, or influenced by anything that could warm it?
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    My tenant said it is very comfortable upstairs
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    it is on the north side of house, nothing is by it to give it extra warmth
    i don't remember giving it an ohms test, but if the manual said, I might have done it, just forgot
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    the sensor must be bad, still reading 32
  • maybemark
    maybemark Member Posts: 1,131
    can i check the sensor with my multimeter from the inside, disconnect it from the boiler and then touch the 2 leads with the meter. this should work, right?

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