OWB winter shutdown

[upsnake]

Reg propane furnace in the basement, separate from the owb.

I have the classic CB forced air system setup.

http://www.centralboiler.com/forcedAir.php

[mrwood]

Upsnake brings up a very valid point. I have the same setup, and have often wonder the same thought. My OWB tstat is at 72 and my fuel oil is at 59 but even with the fuel oil kicking on at 59 the blower will still run 24/7 because it is tryin to heat my house to 72

[doctorb]

Do you have the ability to separate your OWB hot water loop in your basement from the heat exchanger?  Do you have the ability to shut down your OWB fans and leave the circulating pump still running?

If you are going away, why is your house thermostat set at 72?  Turn it down to 55.

[chevytaHOE5674]

My OWB and propane forced air furnace have separate T-stats in the house to trigger the furnace and blower. If I was to leave and let the boiler go out (hasn't happened yet) I would just turn the boiler T-stat lower than the propane one. That way the furnace blower would only run when the propane was on.

I also have a switch where I would turn off the draft fan on the OWB and leave the circ pump running. That way the water would circulate and keep the stove from freezing but the draft fan wouldn't start running as soon as the stove cooled off and continue running until I returned to fire up.

[upsnake]

Good points guys,

I am going to go be gone for 5 days, (in March, and with the weather we are having it is not that big of deal, but more wondering about the theory of it), what I was trying to do was "squeeze out" another day of heating the house from the owb, but that is where the furnace blower being on all the time problem comes in.

I could turn the owb tstat down below the propane furnace, and run the whole time off propane. Then just let the owb burn until the fire either goes out from lack of demand or it actually burns up all the fuel just maintaining its own temp. Which is prob what I am going to do.

It probably isn't that much of a difference in propane usage trying to get that one extra day of heat out of the owb, at the cost of running a half horse motor for 4 days straight.

Or I could have put in a 200 dollar internet controled tstat. hahahah  :D (yea right).


As far as turning the draft fan off, the e classic is smart enough to know when the FO goes out and will cut the draft blower, so I don't have to worry about that.

[chevytaHOE5674]

If you have your furnace blower (for your OWB) on a programmable T-stat you could probably program it to run for X amount of time after you leave and then bump down to a lower temp.