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Ifc circulators with zone valves

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RayH
RayH Member Posts: 98
in Oil Heating
Does a system that has zone valves and no flow check require an Ifc circulator

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  • STEVEusaPA
    STEVEusaPA Member Posts: 6,505
    edited January 2018
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    Usually no, but it depends on how its piped. Are you getting ghost flow in the zones not calling for heat?

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  • NY_Rob
    NY_Rob Member Posts: 1,370
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    If your zone valves are controlled by your t-stats directly and you have a indirect hot water tank that has DHW Priority enabled, the zone valves will remain open when the indirect tank circulator is running.
    If you didn't have a flow-check on/after the spaceheating circulator in this case you would get reverse flow through the spaceheating loops with energized zone valves.

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