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Radiators in series - good or bad?
I'm pricing up radiators right now - and there is a very good deal on
" radiator packs" in the Stelrad Softline range. Bascially you choose whatever you want up to a "total btu" figure Downside is maximum length of any rad (in this deal) is 1200mm, and in some locations I need something a good bit bigger. So - how practical is it to run two rads in series - i.e. straight horizontal copper pipe out of the first and into the second, with trv and lockshield at the respective further ends? I figure it would only cost me two threaded male compression fittings (and bit of pipe) to jump between the two rads- and have the two function as one. Any pitfalls here? |
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Radiators in series - good or bad?
On Dec 9, 8:25*pm, " wrote:
I'm pricing up radiators right now - and there is a very good deal on " radiator packs" in the Stelrad Softline range. Bascially you choose whatever you want up to a "total btu" figure Downside is maximum length of any rad (in this deal) is 1200mm, and in some locations I need something a good bit bigger. So - how practical is it to run two rads in series - i.e. straight horizontal copper pipe out of the first and into the second, with trv and lockshield at the respective further ends? I figure it would only cost me two threaded male compression fittings (and bit of pipe) to jump between the two rads- and have the two function as one. Any pitfalls here? no big deal. Historic CH systems often had *all* the rads in series NT |
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Radiators in series - good or bad?
On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:29:09 -0800, NT wrote:
no big deal. Historic CH systems often had *all* the rads in series I don't know how historic you're getting here. I've not come across any such. Even single-pipe systems don't put the radiators in series: each rad has a bypass pipe in parallel with it, and the rad+bypass combinations are in series with each other. This is quite different to what the OP is asking about, if you think about it. -- John Stumbles -- http://yaph.co.uk |
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Radiators in series - good or bad?
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" writes: I'm pricing up radiators right now - and there is a very good deal on " radiator packs" in the Stelrad Softline range. Bascially you choose whatever you want up to a "total btu" figure Downside is maximum length of any rad (in this deal) is 1200mm, and in some locations I need something a good bit bigger. So - how practical is it to run two rads in series - i.e. straight horizontal copper pipe out of the first and into the second, with trv and lockshield at the respective further ends? I figure it would only cost me two threaded male compression fittings (and bit of pipe) to jump between the two rads- and have the two function as one. Any pitfalls here? If you link at top and bottom, then it's in effect exactly one radiator. I've seen that done to make a radiator folded around a bay window. However, it's generally better to have multiple separated heat sources in rooms which require a higher heat input to give more even heating, so why not take advantage of the extra radiators by separating them? -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] |
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