Thermo Pride OL5炉概述

这个炉子是1973年安装在1940年建造的一个家庭中，取代了原来的锅炉。我们在1992年买了这栋房子，每两年进行一次维修。我们的石油技术人员称它为熔炉中的凯迪拉克，我们相信这一点。将热交换室的保修期转让给我们，它仍然是1973年的原始设备。怎么说都不够。希望更多的产品能像这个一样被制造出来。已将鼓风机升级为直驱式，更静音且可调节气流。5星!

我的鼓风机皮带坏了，我得找个地方弄一个。但在45年的时间里，它仍然在运行(我不得不更换填充物)，我认为它做得很好。

我的Thermo Pride油炉在1993年安装了新的。我每年都亲自维修燃烧器。在23年的使用中，燃油燃烧器已经坏了两次。第一次，我发现机组的燃油用完了。第二次，我发现垃圾已经通过外部的燃料过滤器，堵塞了喷嘴的过滤器(我用2+2制动清洁剂清洁喷嘴，然后向喷嘴吹压缩空气)。在更换了外部燃油滤清器并从燃烧器中排出空气后，它燃烧起来并运行良好。多年来，这种燃烧器被证明是非常吝啬的燃油。我的550加仑油箱每三年需要加一次油。

Thermo Pride OL5-85RB炉于1996年9月安装在这个古董农舍。当时，它基本上是一种最先进的、热空气、烧油的炉子，这种炉子在整个新英格兰都很常见。在安装时，它达到了85%的燃烧效率。熔炉由一个大的钢制柜子组成，柜子的一端是一个近四英尺高的铸铁罐状装置，这就是燃烧室。在这个像“塔”一样的东西的底部设置了一个油“枪”燃烧器(卡林品牌)，它将油流射入燃烧室并点燃它。油燃烧产生的空气通过8″和10″镀锌钢管道被吹到位于这座房子一楼房间的出风口。当火炉第一次安装时(由这个房子的前任主人)，房子的热量需求增加了一个木火炉，通过外部烟囱排烟。在我们入住的时候，烟囱和木火炉被拆除了，我们发现Thermo Pride火炉足以满足我们的取暖需求，在那个晚春，我们开始重新粉刷房子的内部。然而，人们发现了供暖系统的其他几个问题。首先，一些暖风管道系统松动了，或者在房子最偏远的地方与寄存器分离了。 These areas were in crawl spaces and repair of the ductwork was difficult. Furthermore, this ductwork was in unheated areas and not insulated. The resulting heat loss in deep winter would have made the otherwise good heating efficiency of the Thermo Pride furnace irrelevant as only by driving the furnace hard on those long, very cold winter nights could real warmth be maintained throughout the house. Warm air in circulated by a very large fan system driven by a powerful electric motor. Considering the house is approximately fifty feet long, this fan must be very powerful and the resulting electrical consumption plus the oil needed to provide heat indicated a very expensive heating system at the time we moved into this house. What was a highly efficient and quite expensive furnace and heating system in 1996 was obviously totally obsolete less than twenty years later. Immediately I began a complete heating system retrofit. The Thermo Pride furnace was shut down once the existing supply of fuel oil was depleted. I installed three Toyotomi computerized wall furnaces in different locations in the house. These small wall furnaces develop 20,000, and 8000 BTU’s specifically, burning either kerosene or ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel, and are fed from a single, 275 gallon exterior mounted fuel tank, through a single, electric distribution pump. Now in the fourth year, the system works well, the house is warm in the coldest periods and the fuel consumption through the year is approximately one quarter what the old furnace consumed. I have also added a considerable amount of insulation, particularly beneath the first floor, and blocked off all the old warm air registers. The fuel burned by the Thermo Pride is still the lowest cost, highest BTU fuel available for heating, and if the Thermo Pride furnace was located in a modern house with a full, insulated basement that was not as spread out as this house is, it probably would still provide excellent heat and relatively manageable fuel use and value. But for this house its time has passed and I cannot rate it highly in this particular application.

我刚刚撤掉了使用了22年除了年度服务外没有任何服务呼叫的Thermo Pride机组。它还会在那里给我的家供暖，但我把它换成了天然气。