Heat Timer Corporation

Smaller commercial buildings, or large homes can also benefit from sophisticated boiler and domestic hot water heating controls.  I mean everyone wants to save money on fuel don’t they? If you have a large home or run a small commercial building, your energy bills in winter can easily run thousands of dollars per month. In this realm, Heat-Timer® offers the highly affordable Digi-Span® series of Heating Controls. For HVAC technicians the term “light commercial” applies to describe this class of boiler configurations. There are several configurations that Digi-Span ® is commonly used with : Single boiler system, with a system pump and a domestic hot water pump. Two boiler systems, or a two stage fired boiler with a system pump. A system with three individual boilers. Can be used to modulate a 3-way valve to achieve better control of building heat Can be used to provide residential snow-melt control. Borrowing from technology developed for ou...

The relentless march of new technology in the area of boiler design and domestic hot water systems, have given us many new and improved components and strategies for providing safe, and more energy efficient heat and hot water . But the news is not all good: the fact is that since 2000, cases of Legionella as reported by the CDC have actually increased across the USA. While many possible reasons exist for this puzzling fact, the fact is that even the CDC doesn’t fully understand why. Certainly, awareness of the disease has increased. Cases that were previously unknown are now properly diagnosed and easily reported on the internet. The increase in Legionella cases also does not differentiate incidents which are related to domestic hot water systems vs. those involving other systems such as cooling towers and air conditioning systems. And finally, increased aeration in the water due to low flow fixtures along with the aging population and infrastructure could also be contributing fa...