We are looking at an E-3200 from Central Boiler to replace an oil fired furnace is a commercial lodge application. Does anyone have any experience with this specific unit -- pro's/con's -- alternate recommendations?
Thanks.
Thanks.
ISeeDeadBTUs said:I assume since you're running a succesful Lodge in the ADK, you have a good bit of sense. Enough sense to be wary of anyone pushing one unit. :smirk:
Do some reading/research B4 you buy.
Welcome to the forum. The words COMMERCIAL and REPLACE really caught my eye. I think (truly hope) you mean primary-supplement instead of replace, and will assume you did. "Commercial" ties directly into that, because you WILL need to use some oil. Wood burning is a manual process, and every once in a while the "man"ual will mess up - never our fault, always circumstances beyond our control. Although these circumstances don't happen to me much anymore, when it does happen, I always have to answer to a higher power (the boss). In your case, there will be 10 (?) angry ladies in the office - a prospect that none of us would wish upon their worst enemy. So, in addition to all of the good advice you've already received, you need to have a non-manual source of heat piped, and controlled to kick in instantly, whenever the wood heat supply can't meet demand (regardless of your WB choice). Now, the fossil backup isn't a big deal - most everyone using a WB has some flavor of it. But in your case, things like waiting for a fossil boiler to come back up to temp doesn't sound like a happy thing - you may need to pipe in series to avoid even a small time delay. Might be a good idea to get a top-shelf HVAC person to design the full system for you. Best of luck with it!WTU said:We are looking at an E-3200 from Central Boiler to replace an oil fired furnace is a commercial lodge application. Does anyone have any experience with this specific unit -- pro's/con's -- alternate recommendations?
Thanks.
WTU said:We're in Old Forge NY and the current oil fired unit is 250,000 BTU's and we use about 3800 gallons of oil a year.
Gasifier said:WTU,
I found these threads to be a very interesting read. Each one of these threads is about a side by side comparison with a large Garn and a large Wood Gun at a large facility for a couple of wood burning boilers to handle. Take a read and see what you think. I thought it was interesting.
https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/71547/ Part 1
https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/71548/ Part 2
https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/71549/ Part 3
https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/71879/ Part 4, 5a, 5b
https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/78065/ Part 6
And this one is about the same Wood Gun getting a large storage tank to work with it. Pretty cool.
https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/77602/
Have a good one man.
heaterman said:Outdoor : Portage and Main
Indoor: Garn or a Wood Gun/Econoburn/Eko with storage
Indoor/outdoor available both ways. Royall (a super simple, non gasifying, ASME boiler)
Don't be misled about the storage thing. You need it with the load you have. If you are going to do the correct thing and go with storage just get a Garn and be done with it.
DO NOT get involved with a CB E-Classic series. Sorry if that offends anyone but when I hear of a CB dealer stating that CB has left him hanging high and dry on thousands in warranty claims it does not bode well for the product.
JMHO
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