John Arnold
06-28-2011, 03:49 PM
This afternoon I inspected a run-of-the-mill 80-90 year old row house, with hot water heat.
I couldn't get the boiler to kick on, until I traced the wiring to a double pole 240V breaker (FPE Stab-Lok, but that's another story), which was off. Against my better judgement (it was really hot and my brain wasn't firing on all 3 cylinders) I turned on the breaker and the boiler fired up and the pump started running, sounding fine.
I tried to read the plate on the pump motor, but no luck.
Has anyone ever seen a residential boiler pump wired to 240V??
I couldn't get the boiler to kick on, until I traced the wiring to a double pole 240V breaker (FPE Stab-Lok, but that's another story), which was off. Against my better judgement (it was really hot and my brain wasn't firing on all 3 cylinders) I turned on the breaker and the boiler fired up and the pump started running, sounding fine.
I tried to read the plate on the pump motor, but no luck.
Has anyone ever seen a residential boiler pump wired to 240V??