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High Efficiency Boiler Fan Test

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rbeck
rbeck Member Posts: 56
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What is your process to test the fan on a high-efficiency boiler to determine a fan or control problem? I know to remove the 4 wire connector and the fan should ramp to 100% providing there is 120vac to the fan.

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  • Robert O'Brien
    Robert O'Brien Member Posts: 3,541
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    That's the only method I know. Most often the bad blower is running 100% when you get there
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  • hot_rod
    hot_rod Member Posts: 22,139
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    I think those table top simulators that reps have can modulate the fan. They are used for control training classes
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  • ratio
    ratio Member Posts: 3,626
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    I know you can get controls to exercise furnace ECM blowers, if they interface the same way one of those might work, possibly with a harness adapter. If not, they're probably vendor-specific & would need a tool from the mfgr (or possibly the motor mfgr).
  • GBart
    GBart Member Posts: 746
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    Assuming we mean furnace not boiler.
  • ratio
    ratio Member Posts: 3,626
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    I was thinking that the inducer motor might be a cousin of the ECM blower motors, but the more I think about it, that's probably not the case. My guess now is that it's a custom integrated motor control so no bets outside the mfgr; but an analog control signal (PWM, 2-10V, 4-20 mA in order of my guess at probability) isn't outside the realm of possibilities. A multimeter and study of the schematics might tell us more.

    Which boiler? A service manual might be Googleable.

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