Hello everyone,
I new here and need some advice, this is going to be long so I apologize in advance, I have an old 1960 natural gas hot water boiler (General Automatic) steel tank, it’s worked flawless for the last 59 year and every year before I turn it on I clean and check things over, it has an old gas chain setup on the burner manifold, meaning a separate pressure regulator, gas solenoid valve and a separate standing pilot safety valve, the safety on the pilot valve stopped working and I know they no longer sell this valve which mean I need to change over to a combination valve, the part # on the gas valve is Honeywell V8202A1018 and it crosses over to VR8202A2132, I have some concerns about this, the crossover is rated at 130000 btu and the original is rated at 330000, my boiler input is 150000 and the output is 118000, so shouldn’t the replacement one be at least capable of flowing 150000 for the input of my boiler? I would think the VR8300A3500 would be a better match since it is capable of 190000 btu, I called my supplier and Honeywell and both couldn’t answer my questions, the guy from Honeywell was just reading what was on there website and could not offer any advice, the only reason I can see Honeywell cross referencing that valve is because of the anticipator, the VR8202 is set at .5 and the VR8300 is set at .7 amp, this is the only real difference is see in the two valve, is that rating is for the thermostat and I’ve long since got rid of the 1960 T852 thermostat with its anticipator replaced with digital, if it’s for how many amps the solenoid on the gas valve will draw well the original was .4 amp but that really won’t effect my system since my 120v to 24v 40va step down transformer is rated for 1.66 amp, anyway if some could offer some advice it would be well appreciated.
Thank you
I new here and need some advice, this is going to be long so I apologize in advance, I have an old 1960 natural gas hot water boiler (General Automatic) steel tank, it’s worked flawless for the last 59 year and every year before I turn it on I clean and check things over, it has an old gas chain setup on the burner manifold, meaning a separate pressure regulator, gas solenoid valve and a separate standing pilot safety valve, the safety on the pilot valve stopped working and I know they no longer sell this valve which mean I need to change over to a combination valve, the part # on the gas valve is Honeywell V8202A1018 and it crosses over to VR8202A2132, I have some concerns about this, the crossover is rated at 130000 btu and the original is rated at 330000, my boiler input is 150000 and the output is 118000, so shouldn’t the replacement one be at least capable of flowing 150000 for the input of my boiler? I would think the VR8300A3500 would be a better match since it is capable of 190000 btu, I called my supplier and Honeywell and both couldn’t answer my questions, the guy from Honeywell was just reading what was on there website and could not offer any advice, the only reason I can see Honeywell cross referencing that valve is because of the anticipator, the VR8202 is set at .5 and the VR8300 is set at .7 amp, this is the only real difference is see in the two valve, is that rating is for the thermostat and I’ve long since got rid of the 1960 T852 thermostat with its anticipator replaced with digital, if it’s for how many amps the solenoid on the gas valve will draw well the original was .4 amp but that really won’t effect my system since my 120v to 24v 40va step down transformer is rated for 1.66 amp, anyway if some could offer some advice it would be well appreciated.
Thank you