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Another Pellet and Outdoor Wood boiler question

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picassomcp

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I have an Outdoor Wood boiler that I have been
using for 4 years. This year I did not have
enough wood made and was buying wood by Christmas
time. I don't like buying wood so I started
exploring options. I ran across an outside wood
pellet stove that will also burn corn, wheat
and/or oats. The price was right so i bought it.
My question is, can I install this new boiler in
the same loop as my existing boiler? I would like
to put the 2 stoves in the same loop, I would burn
wood most of the time, but if I run out of wood,
then I would buy pellets or corn and use the
pellet/corn burner. Another benefit would be if I
were to leave for the weekend, I could rely on the
pellet/corn stove to keep heating the house as I
would not be there to fill the wood stove. (corn
stove auto loads) I'm thinking I could set the
water temp higher on the wood stove so the
pellet/corn stove would not come on unless the
wood stove ran out of wood. Seems like a good
idea in theory, I'm just wondering if this could
work in reality? Any ideas or thoughts?

Thanks
 

It should work well as long as your plumbing isolates them so that only one at a time is in the loop. Otherwise the one not in use will be giving off heat. I would think that for safety's sake each should have it's own pressure relief valve in case of procedural error.
 
I would think you would need some by pass valves on each stove so you don't heat the other stove. What kind of stove did you buy,been looking to do the same but didn't find a boiler for pellets.thanks steve
 
sorry my answer is off of what you wanted to do,after reading again. Seem like it would work how would you control the second stove to turn on,the water temp switch? When water cooled to a certain degree the pellet stove would turn on? Sounds like it would work that way.
 
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