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Home » troubleshooting

Articles Tagged with ''troubleshooting''

The Glitch

The Glitch & The Fix: Heat, heat everywhere

February 19, 2021

Figure 1 shows the piping layout for an actual installation. It uses two boilers, fired in stages, to supply three areas of a building. 


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The Glitch

The Glitch & The Fix: Inadvertent flows

January 18, 2021

An installer recently read about the benefits of piping a buffer tank in a “2-pipe” configuration.  


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Dan Holohan

Dan Holohan: How vacuum can cause steam problems

Don’t learn the hard way.
Dan Holohan
December 23, 2020

Back in the old days when most folks burned coal, vacuum was just about everyone’s friend. 


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The Glitch

The Glitch & The Fix: Busy backup

December 22, 2020

A heating designer is asked to create a three zone radiant floor heating system using a 5-ton (60,000 Btu/h) geothermal heat pump as the primary heat source, and a mod/con boiler as the auxiliary heat source. 


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The Glitch

The Glitch & The Fix: Share, and share alike

November 18, 2020

An installer is asked to pipe up two larger commercial air handlers supplied by a dual boiler setup. 


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The Glitch

The Glitch & The Fix: Presumptuous primary piping

October 20, 2020

An installer plans to use a single-speed monobloc air-to-water heat pump to supply several panel radiators. 


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The Glitch

The Glitch & Fix: Multiple boiler blues

September 17, 2020

A multiple boiler system is set up as shown in Figure 1. The objective is to add heat to the system in three on/off stages. 


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Dan Holohan

Dan Holohan: How to set a pressuretrol

You won’t find this in the instructions.
Dan Holohan
May 13, 2020

If you have a steam boiler you’re also going to have a pressuretrol.


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Ray Wholfarth: Boiler room detective

“The game is afoot.” Have fun, detective.
Ray Wohlfarth
February 13, 2020

Sherlock Holmes has always been one of my favorite fictional characters. I envied how he would notice each detail and use every one of his senses to solve the crime. 


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hydronic system

The Glitch and Fix: Whittling away at Watts

December 18, 2019

Figure 1 shows a hydronic system that's intended to supply four panel radiators, each with its own thermostatic radiator valve, and an indirect water heater from a gas-fired sectional cast-iron boiler.


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