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You're one of the many whom has helped me in my education in steam heating. I feel like I'm still missing another piece from the equation. This is what I mean:
Recently on a new boiler install I sold a pressuretrol to vapor-stat replacement. I balanced all 10 rads in the home per your balancing steam systems guide. I set the vaporstat to the equivilant of the lowest setting of a pressuretrol. You guided me to reinstall the vapor-stat at the end of the main.
Before I did that everything heated up evenly on 8 oz. of pressure. Once I reinstalled the vapor-stat at the end of the main & set it to 1 oz. steam pressure, I had a chorus of singing rads & main vents. I felt at the lower pressure, the air vents were now venting too quickly. I installed all gorton #4's & the singing stopped. The system was not as balanced but I got the chorus to stop.
There must be a concept that I'm missing.
What can it be ?
Recently on a new boiler install I sold a pressuretrol to vapor-stat replacement. I balanced all 10 rads in the home per your balancing steam systems guide. I set the vaporstat to the equivilant of the lowest setting of a pressuretrol. You guided me to reinstall the vapor-stat at the end of the main.
Before I did that everything heated up evenly on 8 oz. of pressure. Once I reinstalled the vapor-stat at the end of the main & set it to 1 oz. steam pressure, I had a chorus of singing rads & main vents. I felt at the lower pressure, the air vents were now venting too quickly. I installed all gorton #4's & the singing stopped. The system was not as balanced but I got the chorus to stop.
There must be a concept that I'm missing.
What can it be ?
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Again as far as the client is concerned the new set-up works a million times better than the old. They love it & have zero complaints. I would just like to make my pencil a little sharper. Thanks.0 -
maybe you should call me
i'm usually around after 7 pm eastern time.. 440-439-4417 so we can better discuss what you have.
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