Heaters, Boiler, Cylinders etc

supermonkey

Hi all,

Hope someone knows a bit more about all this then me.

We have a boiler in the kitchen which is an Ideal Icos gas one for the heating. There is a Tribune Ranger HE cylinder for the hot water supply in a cupboard upstairs. Does the tribune have its own heater inside? If so, is it electric or gas? or does it use the main Ideal bolier as heat source?

Thanks

ormus

it should be indirectly heated by the gas boiler.
also it will/should have an electric immersion heater back up. and for summer use.

Moss5

http://www.range-cylinders.co.uk/pdfs/technical/tribune.pdf

supermonkey

ormus wrote: »

it should be indirectly heated by the gas boiler.
also it will/should have an electric immersion heater back up. and for summer use.

thanks - maybe a stupid question, but what do you mean by indirect?

I've always wondered exactly how the 2 worked together and I dont think I was far off what I thought. But I'm getting some carbon monoxide alarms and I wanted to check whether it was gas burning. Probably don't need an alarm upstairs then!

ormus

an indirect cylinder heats the domestic hot water via a heat exchanger system. the coil as above.
ie the two fluids never meet/mix.

you can also see how the immersion heater is a back up system. (generally).
hence the confusion in terms.
a lot of peeps call their cylinder, "the immersion heater".
hope this helps to explain it better?

bambibashercol

nice picture but you got the flow and return mixed up. It should be other way around.

supermonkey

hello again, yes thats great! I will stick with the one carbon monoxide alarm then!

ormus

bambibashercol wrote: »

nice picture but you got the flow and return mixed up. It should be other way around.

aye
just spotted it meself!:rotfl:

supermonkey

may stick with 2 actually. There seems to be a lot of conflicting info on co alarms.

some say they should be in kitchen, others not. The min distance from gas appliances varies as does recommended position near sleeping area (on ceiling in hallway, or on bedside table etc).

So I think I'm going to put 1 above kitchen cabinet over a meter from gas boiler & gas cooker. Then another in landing at top of stairs. My reasoning is that the gas source is downstairs so it would reach landing ceiling before entering bedrooms

Canucklehead

bambibashercol wrote: »

nice picture but you got the flow and return mixed up. It should be other way around.

Hi

Can be either. Scroll down to ' primary coil connections indirect only'

GSR.

bambibashercol

they are two different cylinder though. your link is to an un vented where the connections are side by side. I commented on the cylinder picture in this post that is a standard indirect cylinder.