Fitting heating controls

[Lee UK]

We have a oil / wood burning boiler in the garage that has 2 switches on the wall, 1 for the water pump and one to start up the boiler , I have seen some heating controls on plumbworld, could it be that these wires to the switches could be taken from these and wired into a programmable control so that i can program when to come on etc without having to start each one seperatley.

Cheers in advance.

 

[kevplumb]

yes wouldnt reccomend it if you are burning wood tho (no control) do you have gravity hot water ?

 

[Lee UK]

hmm, could employ a manual worker to control the wood

so would these digital timer thingies be able to replace the 2 switches? and does anyone know if i could control just the pump from this

 

[kevplumb]

if you have grav h/w no probs can use a timer to control the oil not s/f
hence the question

 

[oilman]

WHAT machine is this you've got? You MIGHT be able to control the oil side but definitely not the wood. You may also need a low limit cut off stat so the boiler return doesn't get too cold. There's more to this than a couple of switches.

 

[kevplumb]

forgot about the condensation im glad your here

 

[Lee UK]

so you recon its safe for these wires to be connected up in a hoeywll type controller, only want it to come on and off auto instead of me going to and fro, thought that these wires may be live and needed to make sure these programmers are ok to take them

 

[oilman]

No I DON'T reckon it's safe, (and I bet kevplumb thinks the same). You havn't given us any details about your machine and you have the idea you can just connect up a programmer to it. If you want advice, we want INFORMATION. ok?

 

[kevplumb]

im with you on this one