auto-fill

Herb

to my steam boiler stayed on last night to the point it filled the boiler past the sight tube. I turned it off because I heard it running too long. Took the excess water off by means of the skimmer valve and the lower boiler drain valve. The boiler is a Weil-McLain about 10 years old with a low water cut-off and auto fill control. Is there some preventive service I should be doing for this water set-up? I currently skim and drain the boiler once a month to check the low water cut-off operation but how do you check the fill? Thanks Herb

ed wallace

autofill

sounds like the low water cut off has some crap built up in the chamber or float is no good i would turn boiler on drain water from lwco and watch to see when auto water fill turns off

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Mark Hunt

Did you

by chance lose power last night?

I have seen situations where this was the cause.(Assuming the LWCO is a "probe" type.)

For the life of me I cannot recall the specific model that this was an issue with.

Maybe one of the other wallies remembers.

Mark H

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