A good friend of mine lives on the coast and has a Buderus GC124-32/5 propane fired boiler that's just a few years old. It works great until there's a Nor'easter as they produce very strong winds out of the north east. During the storm it seems like there isn't enough up draft produced in the chimney after the boiler fires, and the small safety switch in the back corner of the draft hood trips from excessive heat build up in the hood and the unit shuts down. Lesser storms with winds from all directions don't seem to cause a problem. The electric vent damper is working properly.
I feel badly for him as he previously had a nice System 2000 but it did the exact same thing. His heating company assured him the Buderus would remedy the issue and when they installed it they also cut 2 square holes in the utility room wall and added louver style vents (I think this was a hail Mary on their part, don't know if they did it during installation or after the same thing happened the first time on the new system), but unfortunately the same issue persists.
It happened again yesterday during another strong Nor'easter, we reset the safety switch today and the boiler fired right up and drafted well in the lesser winds. We were wondering if a draft inducer could be used with this boiler and if it might remedy the situation? Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I feel badly for him as he previously had a nice System 2000 but it did the exact same thing. His heating company assured him the Buderus would remedy the issue and when they installed it they also cut 2 square holes in the utility room wall and added louver style vents (I think this was a hail Mary on their part, don't know if they did it during installation or after the same thing happened the first time on the new system), but unfortunately the same issue persists.
It happened again yesterday during another strong Nor'easter, we reset the safety switch today and the boiler fired right up and drafted well in the lesser winds. We were wondering if a draft inducer could be used with this boiler and if it might remedy the situation? Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.