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All-Purpose OWF Discussions => Plumbing => Topic started by: fivedogs on October 21, 2014, 03:58:14 PM

Title: air bound aquatherm
Post by: fivedogs on October 21, 2014, 03:58:14 PM: we recently had an aquatherm 340 ss installed the system hold good pressur at 12 lbs hot water is constant 180

the system is air bound we have an expansion tank at the wood boiler it feed into our existing hot water system a weil mcclain unit with the old style expansion tank

we have bled the system three time but the air seems to enter the system when we iopen the lines from the wood boiler we are running 1.25 inch pex triple wrapped both sides hold good pressure how can we get rid of this air? any help would be appreciated
Title: Re: air bound aquatherm
Post by: Big Wood on October 21, 2014, 05:29:18 PM: The expansion tank on the Aqua-Therm on an air scoop with an air vent on top
Title: Re: air bound aquatherm
Post by: fivedogs on October 21, 2014, 05:38:27 PM: yes we have an air scoop withan expansion tank and a bleeder vlve at the highest on the aqua therm side

thanks for the reply
Title: Re: air bound aquatherm
Post by: atvalaska on October 21, 2014, 06:12:23 PM: like this?
Title: Re: air bound aquatherm
Post by: atvalaska on October 21, 2014, 06:15:34 PM: """" but the air seems to enter the system when we iopen the lines from the wood boiler"""""" ...open the lines and bleed both of the boilers and pump some more juice in it.
Title: Re: air bound aquatherm
Post by: fivedogs on October 21, 2014, 06:25:31 PM: yes the expansion is like the pictured setup we opened all line feeds to boilers today while adding water to both units and moved a lot of air out today going tolet water in well recover and redo same tomorrow system is currentlt hot heating our hot water would it be better to do this with system cold thanks for reply
Title: Re: air bound aquatherm
Post by: atvalaska on October 21, 2014, 10:35:37 PM: O0 u make my spell'in... talk...... look damfine! :thumbup: