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The Key to Troubleshooting Hydronic Systems

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The Key to Troubleshooting Hydronic Systems
When I was first learning about hydronics, a guy I worked with, who was 15 years older than I was, told me to imagine myself as a marble moving through the pipes.
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I've been looking for marbles most of my life, mine were electronic marbles that were always looking for the easiest way to find their way back to ground. When things go wrong you have to figure out what other path they found or what opened up so they couldn't find their way, over the years I got pretty good at figuring out what went wrong.
My problem now is that I can't find all of my own marbles.
BobSmith G8-3 with EZ Gas @ 90,000 BTU, Single pipe steam
Vaporstat with a 12oz cut-out and 4oz cut-in
3PSI gauge3 -
I have always thought of it as getting or being "inside the pipe"0
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Think like heat, water, and air........0
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I've always visualized stuff -- whether it's steam or water or a recalcitrant tractor. It's just the way it works for me...Br. Jamie, osb
Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England0
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