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Re: Should I drain water out of my boiler at the end of burning season???
« Reply #15 on: February 14, 2017, 05:58:20 PM »

Emailed Heatmaster- They said they use an electric meter with probes.

No more than 4,000 micromhos is what you want. 1-2,000 is more normal.
Too high and you can get electrolysis pitting.
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Re: Should I drain water out of my boiler at the end of burning season???
« Reply #16 on: February 14, 2017, 09:37:10 PM »

Good to know. I understand that completely.  Problem is, I have no way to get to the water to test it with probes.
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Re: Should I drain water out of my boiler at the end of burning season???
« Reply #17 on: February 14, 2017, 10:09:49 PM »

Emailed Heatmaster- They said they use an electric meter with probes.

No more than 4,000 micro-ohms (sp.?) is what you want. 1-2,000 is more normal.
Too high and you can get electrolysis pitting.

Really? I would think there’d be  a procedure far as how far apart to hold the probes etc.
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Re: Should I drain water out of my boiler at the end of burning season???
« Reply #18 on: February 15, 2017, 02:02:19 AM »

I have a continuity meter somewhere, used it to check mineral content in greenhouse fertilizer mix. It's a simple machine you fill with about three tablespoons mix and and it gives you a reading. Probes are preset in unit. Think it was called an EC meter. Maybe not the same but it measured salts in the mix by using a continuity reading. I remember we were shooting for a 2500 reading and the unit went from 0-5000.

Was researching EC meters, there are a lot out there and cheap compared to 20 years ago when we used them. Be a nice thing to have for a periodic check on boiler water.
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Re: Should I drain water out of my boiler at the end of burning season???
« Reply #19 on: February 15, 2017, 06:32:48 AM »


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Good to know. I understand that completely.  Problem is, I have no way to get to the water to test it with probes.

Drain some out into a cup?

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Really? I would think there’d be  a procedure far as how far apart to hold the probes etc.

I'm not sure what kind of meter they have. Would have a preset distance between probes I would think. There are EC meters all over Amazon.

This would be measuring very very low levels of conductivity so I'm not sure if a fertilizer EC meter would read it? The water test results I looked at were measured in "micromhos". I wrote "ohms" before and that isn't correct, I think.... Makes my head swim.
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The siemens (SI unit symbol: S) is the unit of electric conductance, electric susceptance and electric admittance in the International System of Units (SI). Conductance, susceptance, and admittance are the reciprocals of resistance, reactance, and impedance respectively; hence one siemens is equal to the reciprocal of one ohm, and is also referred to as the mho.

So that's why I send it off to Heatmaster to test!  :D

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Re: Should I drain water out of my boiler at the end of burning season???
« Reply #20 on: February 15, 2017, 10:15:41 AM »


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Good to know. I understand that completely.  Problem is, I have no way to get to the water to test it with probes.

Drain some out into a cup?

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Really? I would think there’d be  a procedure far as how far apart to hold the probes etc.

I'm not sure what kind of meter they have. Would have a preset distance between probes I would think. There are EC meters all over Amazon.

This would be measuring very very low levels of conductivity so I'm not sure if a fertilizer EC meter would read it? The water test results I looked at were measured in "micromhos". I wrote "ohms" before and that isn't correct, I think.... Makes my head swim.
From Wikipedia-
The siemens (SI unit symbol: S) is the unit of electric conductance, electric susceptance and electric admittance in the International System of Units (SI). Conductance, susceptance, and admittance are the reciprocals of resistance, reactance, and impedance respectively; hence one siemens is equal to the reciprocal of one ohm, and is also referred to as the mho.

So that's why I send it off to Heatmaster to test!  :D

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