Opus boiler

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I will post a bit of information very shortly on the MPO including photos and a schedule of when and where the Traveling Road Truck with a live-fire model can be seen.

Glenn Stanton

Manager of Training

Burnham Hydronics

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Shaun Anderson

Is there anyone out

there thats put in a Opus boiler ? Got a guy wants me to bid maybe .

Supply House Rick

My two cents...

We have sold several of these, we have had trouble with some of them, the Burnham Rep is saying order the Burnham MPO, much better boiler. I agree with Burnham...

Steamhead

That's what Glenn Stanton told me

since the AFUE of both boilers is similar. I've never heard an Opus firing, but the MPO is very quiet.

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Scott Kneeland

opus

I think it was renamed oops.

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Scott

The Opus Oil Boiler is not really an "Oops" as you say! The boilers that were sold and installed have all performed well as intended. When the market consisted of other larger mass steel multipass boilers such as the Opus and Vitola BiFerral the Opus was a good choice for efficiency and performance. The problem that Rick was probably referring to involved a sub-harness that had to be added to prevent the internal injection pump from shutting down in the event of the Auxiliary High Limit activating. This was a five minute fix in the field.

Problem is that the industry has steered towards lower mass cast iron multi-pass boilers instead of these larger mass and certainly heavier boilers such as the Opus. The new Burnham MPO now fits that demand and has many features that the others also have plus other features that they do not have. The Opus can still be made by demand and we still have some in inventory but as I stated, the trends are now towards the Burnham "MPO" boiler.

Glenn Stanton

Manager of Training

Burnham Hydronics

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Constantin

Hmmmm....

That's an interesting perspective and you're certainly closer to the market/action/etc. than I'll ever dream of being. That said, allow me to introduce my perspective on the Opus.

Inherently, I really liked the design, the AFUE, etc. of the oil boiler. Looked like a solid performer... yet the marketing concept put me off. Cladding this design in a new company name with a non-informative high-falutin web-site did not work for this detail-oriented engineer. I would have preferred the unit being sold under the Burnham name, with the same kind of info, as could be found on the Burnham site for its other boilers.

I'll go out on a limb and presume that the Opus was an attempt to break the price-point barrier that Burnham and other US manufacturers have been dealing with. I.e. sell it under a new name and perhaps high-end customers will be willing to spend more on it than a V8. Yet, who are the folk who spec and install these boilers? Not most end-users... and the installers knew the origin of the Opus, so why try to mask it?

Anyway, I don't think that the end of high-mass boilers is near. With the right kind of insulation, they are an elegant way to overcome the inadequacies of the fixed-rate oil burners that are currently available on the US residential market. Plus, the Vitola does not have to rely on pump logic to prevent flue gas condensation nor maintain high internal tank temperatures, helping reduce standby losses. So I think a market is there, the question is how to get into it.

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Constantin

Your thoughts regarding the marketing are indeed correct. The concept was somewhat along the same lines as the Acura, Lexus and Infinity marketing strategy. The boiler was and continues to perform very well. The physical size and weight has been the barrier to its marketing success though. Contractors want lighter and physically smaller equipment these days.

Glenn Stanton

Manager of Training

Burnham Hydronics

www.burnham.com

Mad Dog_2

Glenn what can you tell us aBOUT THE \"mpo\"?

aNY LIT ON IT? mD

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