Polarity Matters, Even with 24 Volts! How to Install Automatic Water Feeder on Steam Boiler
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- Опубликовано: 12 ноя 2023
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The dead men would not be happy with that installation. Remember Peter the solder flows to the heat of the flame. Good Job Mikey Pipes and Peter Piper. Make the trades great again.
You do a great video and help the apprentice along..he is such a humble guy. Thanks for the information on the low water feeder..had a coworker install one of those same ones you had and he said it did feed water when he first installed it but then it wont feed after that. So i think he probably forgot to set the dip switches or connect the wires with the right polarity. I will have him check those this weekend...tha ks again for the great information...i was cracking up about the Bill Clinton stuff...you make the work environment less stressful when you make jokes and laugh.😅😅
Yes, the old Hartford loop is important
Absolutely it is
Hartford loop is overrated imo it saves you maybe one or two cycles of the boiler. People don’t look at their boiler at best for a week or two.
i hope you don't service steam systems@@Rainmaker88
You have a hole in the wet return. The return drains but the boiler still has water it fires sending steam to the radiators turns to water and leaks out the wet return. Now the water is below the lowest allowable water level. The Hartford loop saved you one heating cycle. It’s almost useless.
Good job Mike and Peter.
Great job teaching peter. i feel like he will get it eventually.
Im a handyman ... i watch you everyday! Although i would never do any work outside my trade (like messing with gas or hvac i would leave that to people that do that for a living) im in NJ and woke up this morning freezing with no heat (steam boiler) because of you & your videos i was able to get heat back on quickly within 15 mins and hell i kinda looked like i knew what i was doing! So ty mikey
Awesome!!!
This was great video. Now I know how the auto feeder works. Thanks
Glad to help
Thanks Mikey getting me through HVac school here in Worcester ma
Im live in Boston MA and the boiler for one of my tenants apt doesn't have an automatic water feeder, im an HVAC tech i mainly dont work on boilers so i was not sure how to do it, he has the same boiler you used in this video and some of your other video and i think im able to do the install for him now. Thank You
Congrats on 150k. Lets have a party! Man that installl though. If i were you id be feeling the same way about it. I dont understand how these people can come in and do this to other living breathing thriving people. We are not objects that hand out money, but some "home services" treat the customer like that. Im glad you have great CS.
great video, but why would you leave that compression union in?
Do you need to have an electronic low water cutoff to have the automatic water feed? I have an old style water cutoff valve.
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Please explain, whether your using the auto fed or manual feed aren’t you using the same amount of water ?
Should everyone have there feeder set to 2 minutes and the feed amount to LWCO ? I moved into my new house and I’m assuming the previous owners has it set to 4 minutes and 1 gallon I’m not sure if i should change it or not
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Why is the low water cut off upside down?
Why do you not recommend an automatic water feeder? Thanks for another great video Mike!
They like to fail while filling. Trust me.
@@PipeDoctor Thanks for the reply. I'm getting a new steam boiler installed in the next few weeks and they included an automatic feeder on the quote. I'll absolutely discuss this with them!
Peter that was a nasty Solder!! 😣😣
im amazed that a voiler built in 2008 or there abouts has a standing pilot to worry about and not a spark plug ignitor
Hi Mr Mike pipes I have one question why is not a RPZ in the supply line?
Reduced Pressure Zone?
A backflow preventer
One thing you will never see is another provider saying the last guy did a good job.. just had this same scenario with my windshield on my car.. after he was done installing it he tells me it’s better than the last guy who installed it.. 😂😂😂 mind I never had any issues with the windshield aside from when it cracked from a rock on the road.
Actually, Jose, I totally disagree with your comment. A professional will never badmouth another professional facts. I have seen disasters, and I have seen complete shit shows and I very very rarely talk negatively about another contractor on the work that they did.
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Time for Peter to watch heating help on RUclips there’s some videos on steam heating old presentation’s by Dan Holohan about steam boiler piping and it might be helpful if Peter watched them once a year to review what the meaning of the dead men’s lessons are.
I have to wonder if that boiler was in a pit before it was replaced with a gas boiler. The main seems very low in your video. The previous contractor has not read much about near boiler piping otherwise he wouldn’t have made so many mistakes. No equalizer, no drop header, no drip leg on the relief valve!
Petro I worked for them. Thank God I left.
For the love 💕 of all that’s a torch ge that poor kid as new tip that’s one messed up torch
I bet the equalizer was there but the hoopal who installed the new boiler took it out. Because he was an idiot and did job for $1,500. You get what you pay for.
Probably
wowsers,,i guess peter sucks at soldering...
Bushings PLEASE
Yeah