Heat Timers
I own a small building in brooklyn and have steam heat. There are new products manufactured by heattimer and OAS which allow you to control temperture through sensors throughout building. Has anyone had any expierence with these types of heat timers.
I own a small building in brooklyn and have steam heat. There are new products manufactured by heattimer and OAS which allow you to control temperture through sensors throughout building. Has anyone had any expierence with these types of heat timers.
BMS = Building Management System. Essentially a computer program tells various units (heat, AC, dampers etc) when to function according to specific pre-programmed parameters. However, as one can guess, that’s an expensive and complicated process better befitting a much larger building than a 2-Fam. From reading the Tekmar manual online, it reads as if it needs some external apparatus to tell it what to do and when but I guess I’m overthinking. From what you’re saying here, it sounds like it operates like a sophisticated domestic thermostat and will operate a boiler without any other devices. Sounds like I have some further reading to do!
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What’s a BMS?
The Tekmar 269 can work with day and night (or un/occupied) settings with an external timer or without.
Sorry to jump on this thread but i have a follow up to MP’s reply. In a residential, 2-family, single pipe steam (with separate hot water)scenario, can the Tekmar work like a programmable thermostat? In other words, can it work as a stand alone system that is set with night/day parameters or is it designed to work with a BMS? If it doesn’t function well as a stand alone, what do you usually recommend to solve the timer conundrum for single steam systems?
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I like the Tekmar 269 with an external clock/timer. It is a very intelligent and adaptive outdoor reset control, costs less than any Heat Timer model and is much simpler to use. Heat Timer is simply old technology. Tekmar uses a microprocessor and thermistors to “learn” about how your system respods to changes in the environment and cycles the burner just as much as it needs to and not a minute more.
Good stuff.