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Originally Posted by Irish mist
Too much money & too many moving parts & Over-complicated IMO. Get a good Burnham for about 5K & you should be fine.
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Love to read about all the high tech stuff out there. All sorts of claims of efficiency. Great if all works.
Here is the Munchkin story
MUNCHKIN BOILER Munchkins claim to fame is size and high efficiency.
A friend purchase a fancy home on the big lake from a very well known lake house builder. The home was a hot air heated home with a boiler in basement/crawl space. The new owner set up all sorts of internet connections that would send to this iPhone anytime the heat went below a certain temperature. The first call came in November. Munchkin boiler stopped working. Owner calls the builder who in turns calls the plumbing contractor who installed the Munchkin boiler. Plumber comes and "fixes" boiler. A month later another call to iPhone as heat has gone below set warning. Another call to plumber as boiler stopped working. This time the owner of house states to plumber to purchase a 2nd Munchkin. Fix the first Munchkin boiler and place the 2nd in tandum/relay so that if one breaks the other will start up. A double safe/redundant way to prevent any problems with heat in winter. Now owner has two boilers. Then January he gets a call that both Munchkin boilers are not working. Owner calls the plumber. The plumber does not return the calls. Owner calls the manufacturer of Munchkin in East Freetown, Massachusetts. They tell him that the only contractor in this area that can work on his TWO Munchkins is the same plumber that will not return his calls. So owner states that he will remove both boilers and take down to East Freetown, Massachusetts and have the factory technicians fix the boilers. No, ain't gonna happen. The Munchkin factory in East Freetown, Massachusetts does not have any repair/diagnose technicians and that he cannot bring down there to be fixed. So now he has two boilers that no one can or will fix. And a temporay hot air propane heater in basement provided by the propane company.
Owner of new home (over the 1 year builders warranty) goes out and buys a Weil-McLain. And no problems after that.
So you folks that love cutting edge technology go right ahead. Maybe "Joe" the plumber will be there forever to fix your high tech boiler and you will have zero issues.