Hi,
I have a steam boiler that kept overfilling for 3 days straight. One the first day I drained out 2 buckets and on the following days I drained out one full bucket each time. Also, each time I drained it, I took the water level down to 3/4 full as indicated by sight glass. Now it seems to have stopped overfilling. It's been over 14 hours and not a drop more was added to the boiler as seen by using the sight glass. At all times the manual valve and the straight handle LWCO bypass valve were tightly closed.
I should mention that before all this happened, the boiler was auto fed by the LWCO improperly (and it over filled the boiler thereby starting the draining process).
My question is, how realistic and likely is it that there was too much water pushed out to the pipes, thereby resulting in a return of extra water back to the boiler over the following days? Does stuff like this happen? Thank you.
I have a steam boiler that kept overfilling for 3 days straight. One the first day I drained out 2 buckets and on the following days I drained out one full bucket each time. Also, each time I drained it, I took the water level down to 3/4 full as indicated by sight glass. Now it seems to have stopped overfilling. It's been over 14 hours and not a drop more was added to the boiler as seen by using the sight glass. At all times the manual valve and the straight handle LWCO bypass valve were tightly closed.
I should mention that before all this happened, the boiler was auto fed by the LWCO improperly (and it over filled the boiler thereby starting the draining process).
My question is, how realistic and likely is it that there was too much water pushed out to the pipes, thereby resulting in a return of extra water back to the boiler over the following days? Does stuff like this happen? Thank you.