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[woodburner85]

I am  looking  ahead to next heating season, and am trying to figure out a way to burn wood still while being gone often for 3 to 7 days at a time.  Here are a few of my ideas.  Use my backup fuel oil boiler to heat the house, but keep the boiler pump running and put in a bypass to separate the two systems.  Pry fill the stove before leaving and install a switch to shut off the fan of stove for if the stove ran out of wood to prevent warm air from being blown out chimney.  This way I would not be wasting fuel oil to heat the wood boiler water also.  I have a 100 ft run of thermopex to the house.  The water circulating should stay warm for quite a long while without any load right?  My stove holds 400 gallons.  I also have alarm system set up if the water would get too cold.  Any thoughts or other ideas?

[slimjim]

Woodburner, I have posted a wiring schematic on the Portage and Main threads along with the part numbers needed to do exactly what you wish to do, I tried to again post it this morning but the uploader is full again, what it boils down to is simply interrupting the power wire off the control before it gets to the solenoid and blower with an add on aqua stat that is wired to make on temp rise, set it at about 140 degrees on the HeatMaster boilers with an add on 60 minute timer wired in parallel with the aqua stat, this will shut off the blower at 140 degrees and simply turn the timer to get power back to the blower when you get back, you may E Mail me if you like and I can send you the diagram, my E Mail is in my signature here