Cast Iron Radiator Conservancy

Climate Creator

Dan, (or anyone else) is there anyway I can use your EDR book to look up the btus of a given C.I. Rad and give it an equivalent baseboard fin tube value, eg I was trying to explain to someone that removing the freestanding rads is not an energy conserving move. Is there a formula I can use on the job to say to a customer...yeah if you remove this X-size radiator youll need xyz feet of fin tube to replace it. I dont think I should have to do a heat loss to figure that general equiv. Any Ideas?

Thanks,

Rich

Robert O'Connor_6

Sure ,from my rad pad

170 degree water going into rad = 150 btu per sq ft edr

180 " " " " = 170 " " " "

190 " ' " ' = 190 " " " "


You can calculate from there.

If you had a radiator with 5sq ft @ 180 degree water you would have 800 btu's dived by 580 btu's per ft for (average) baseboard to give your equivalent baseboard length.


Regards,

Robert

Climate Creator

Thanks, did you

see my post, with your drips installed?

Rich