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The Glitch & The Fix
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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 & 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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The Glitch and Fix: Hardware heavy

May 15, 2020

A client asks a heating contractor to set up a floor heating system for a new 7,500 square foot machine shop.


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The Glitch and Fix: Duped by a loop

April 27, 2020

An installer pipes up the system shown in Figure 1. Its purpose is to provide two zones of space heating.  


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The Glitch and Fix: Mixed mode

February 26, 2020

I recently had an inquiry from a designer who needed to combine some high temperature loads with low temperature loads. 


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The Glitch and Fix: Mixed mode

January 27, 2020

An installer is trying to wire up a two-stage heat pump for heating and cooling operation.


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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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The Glitch and Fix: Keep the cost down

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John Siegenthaler, P.E.
November 20, 2019

An installer is asked to connect an old (but still working) propane-fueled cast-iron boiler, which was salvaged from another project, to a slab-on-grade floor heating system in a new workshop.


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The Glitch and Fix: Dampened response

October 23, 2019

An installer is asked to pipe two independent zones of high mass floor heating to a conventional gas-fired boiler.


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The Glitch and Fix: Overly complex

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John Siegenthaler, P.E.
September 23, 2019

An installer was asked to include an air-to-water heat pump into a low-temperature radiant panel heating system supplied by a mod/con boiler.


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