Programmable thermostat?
On Oct 19, 3:22*pm, LSMFT wrote:
Jim Elbrecht wrote:
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:18:48 -0400, *wrote:
I want to have my circulator come on for 3 minutes and off for 15
minutes as long as the thermostat is calling for heat. Will a
programmable thermostat do this?
I would say no. * All the thermostat does is call for heat.
You could put a timer on the circulator-- but I doubt that is a good
idea. *Why do you want to do this?
I suspect the current setup allows for the most efficient use of
power-- your proposition totally ignores how hot the water is. * It
seems to me that water temp is of utmost importance.
Jim
It's a wood boiler and I do it that way manually now and it works great.
The problem is that when the fire goes down the circulator runs all the
time unless I shut it off.
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LSMFT
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Is there no thermostat on the boiler to control air flow? That would
be normal.
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