Bunny Laroche
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Hello, this forum has been so helpful in the past that I thought I would post another request asking for advise about how best to set-up my Westinghouse 80k BTUh boiler.
The gas company's technician inspected the system and turned on the gas at our house a couple of weeks ago. The system has since performed better than we expected, but then again the weather has been much milder here in Northern Minnesota than usual.
So the only changes to the boiler's factory default setup that my girlfriend (she installed the boiler and radiators and pipes to connect everything) made were to enable the boiler's "step modulation" feature, she changed the duration the boiler will wait before satisfying the next call for heat to 20 minutes (an effort to reduce the boiler from cycling on and off too frequently), and she also turned the maximum boiler supply heat down to 160F from 180F, saying that as the winter wears on we will likely need to adjust that temperature.
I wonder what the general opinions about these changes might be, as well as any advice for any further changes/modification that might help set up a more efficient system?
BTW, although we installed an 80k BTUh boiler, the heat analysis for our home suggested that we should only require about 35-40k BTUh to keep things toasty and warm on the coldest days of the year.
The gas company's technician inspected the system and turned on the gas at our house a couple of weeks ago. The system has since performed better than we expected, but then again the weather has been much milder here in Northern Minnesota than usual.
So the only changes to the boiler's factory default setup that my girlfriend (she installed the boiler and radiators and pipes to connect everything) made were to enable the boiler's "step modulation" feature, she changed the duration the boiler will wait before satisfying the next call for heat to 20 minutes (an effort to reduce the boiler from cycling on and off too frequently), and she also turned the maximum boiler supply heat down to 160F from 180F, saying that as the winter wears on we will likely need to adjust that temperature.
I wonder what the general opinions about these changes might be, as well as any advice for any further changes/modification that might help set up a more efficient system?
BTW, although we installed an 80k BTUh boiler, the heat analysis for our home suggested that we should only require about 35-40k BTUh to keep things toasty and warm on the coldest days of the year.