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Originally Posted by Ryland
our LP gas hot water heater has an exhaust fan on it that has to come on first, if the fan isn't on then gas will not turn on and the flame will not light, so we have that fan on a simple Christmas tee light timer that comes on at 6am and turns off at 8am, leaving us with hot water all day until 2pm when it comes on again for an hour this cut our LP use in half, it would be less but we use LP for cooking as well.
I wonder if you could do something similar with your boiler, and the timer has an over ride switch so you can turn it on if you wan really hot water at 2am or something crazy.
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I don't know squat about gas, but there must be some kind of sensor
that detects air flow or something from that fan..
If that sensor fails to function and the fan isn't on, you might have a problem..
Timer:
My wife and I are retired / not real busy.
so just using the clock or cooking timer works for us.
I was planing on buying a programmable timer and found some good ones on the web.
BUT, after a summer of using
On-demand, I realized if I had set up a timer
to run 20 minutes every single day, I would have wasted a lot of oil...
Especially when we go on spur-of-the-moment short trips out of town..
The kind of trip that leaves you wondering if you left the back door open.?.
