Gorton vents is there a way to test them?
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That should read "intermittent" level test. You can wire it up so that it doesn't test so annoyingly often, and only 20m or so into a burn. Most of my burns are less than that. It is called "Smart Cycle" or something like that.
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What I actually have done in one of my mains (not the other one), is I removed a radiator at the farthest end of it, removed the supply valve, and installed a nipple with a garden hose fitting on the end of it and then connected a garden hose up to it and flushed the return line with the return drain valve open. It is best if you have a no return flush ball valve installed on the Hartford Loop. I didn't have that so I had to first drain the boiler down as far as I cold with the return drain valve and then just flush in short bursts so that none of it actually went into the boiler.
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How is that done? Inside the LWCO or elsewhere?
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I found the installation manual. Now to study how to change things to get the smart cycle. My boiler is shutting off due to the random sampling feature of this LWCO! I didn't see any pattern related to the firing for this. Now I understand what's going on (some).
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SmartCycle Activation instructions are in this above.
I have the CG400 2090, so mine will always wait to test 20m into a firing, and not before. If you have the
10901060, yours will do it only 10 m into the firing.It was ridiculous until I enabled this feature and made me wish I had gone with the SafGuard model. If you turn off the power to your boiler, on the very first firing afterwards, I believe it tests 10m into the burn. Just a bit of a quirk.
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Its a cycle guard. Thats its job. It shuts down after 10 min I think. Then restarts. Its not going off on LOW WATER, its doing its check.
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Oh then don't worry about that. The intermittent test is good.
Isn't it interesting the way we humans make connections that aren't really there? It's nothing to do with the water being 3/4" above the probe.
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It depends on the model
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My CG400 has no markings on it for any dash number, that I can find. It is also not wired for smart anything, as the terminal screw under the cover has no wire or connection. So this thing periodically shuts off whether there's a burn or not. It's only noticed during a burn. I don't have sufficient knowledge of how everything is wired on my boiler, so I'm going to leave it alone.
That being said, it's annoying to be calling for heat and it shuts it off for a minute or two. Dunno, it is doubling the number of actuations of the relays. Can't be great long term. Hope the benefit outweighs the annoyance.
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Oh I didn't say it was easy 😀 The one I did was a small radiator 10 sections and 4 columns, that I wanted to carry outside and flush out anyways. While I was doing that I flushed the sediment out of the dry return and near radiator piping, and the wet return. For oil I suppose time will eventually take care of that, in normal operation, presuming you don't get any more carry over events.
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