Folks,
trying to make a decision between the plethora of wood pellet boilers out there & hopefully narrowing it down to just a few now. One thing I am interested in hearing about is opinions about the virtues of a wpb with an integral heat store versus a wpb with a separate buffer tank. For info, i have UFH installed. Thanks in advance, apple1
Any integated heat store in a wpb would have a max capacity of 100 ltrs. Depending on your sq ft you need to consider getting the hot water/heat store properly sized. Look up heatweb.com for info.
205 litres may be enough depending on your hot water needs. I have a 500 litre tank in a pressurised system.
When I have house guests and there is a lot of showering and bathing I need every drop of the 500 litres. But the pressurised system does mean that we use a lot of water and have great power in the showers.
Thanks Badge. I probably haven't explained the system fully. I plan on installing a 300litre dual coil cylinder in a presurrised system. The integral heat store in the boiler isn't solely intended to serve the household's DHW needs but rather to act as a reserve store or to mimic the functionality of an intermediate buffer between the boiler & the 'main' cylinder(i.e. to reduce cycling of the boiler on/off) . Given this situation then, what are the pro's cons of this type of wpb versus one which has no integral store but has modulation capability and/or is used in tandem with a separate buffer tank between it & the cyclinder. Thanks in advance, apple1