[Default] On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 11:46:54 +0000, Kennet Boater <[email protected]> finished their pint and wrote::
>My problem is that when the fire cools down it take ages for pipe thermostat >to turn off. Thus pushing cooler water through the calorifier and taking heat >out. I've over come this by fitting a shut off valve on the calorifier heat >feed. But this means opening and shutting it at either end of the woodburners >'hot time' and the valve is awkward to access. >If I increase the setting on the pipe thermostat the boiler 'boils up' before >the pump kicks in. > Could you not add an ON - OFF switch to the thermostat circuit? Turn it off when you don't want the circulation to take heat out of the calorifier, turn it back on when you start the stove up again. Brian L Dominic Web Sites: Canals: http://www.brianscanalpages.co.uk
