Timer to measure boiler fan run cycles and fan idle cycles?

The LOGO! could do that w/ the necessary programming...it does that already to a certain degree...w/ some tweaking it would do it for that purpose.

I have no programming experience for the LOGO!. Member *vermontday* has provided that skill.

I have an hour meter wired to run whenever the stoker runs. Last year I kept a daily log of run time and used that to plot daily coal consumption for the heating season. That was interesting...but this year I haven't even looked at the hour meter...I just keep adding coal and removing ashes.

That Dwyer unit should work fine, but you can also use a $40 analog unit if you want. If the counter feature is important to you, than maybe the Dwyer is worth it. I think my hour meter is a Cramer unit...USA made.

Rob R. wrote:I have an hour meter wired to run whenever the stoker runs. Last year I kept a daily log of run time and used that to plot daily coal consumption for the heating season. That was interesting...but this year I haven't even looked at the hour meter...I just keep adding coal and removing ashes.

I used to keep track to. By the assumption that a 5 gallon bucket weighed so much. But since I tied into my bin with a longer auger, I just check the level of coal and take out ash's. I'm always around 9 ton a year. What I need is an auto ash removal.

While I have never used a math function on the logo timer, Siemens web site says it can do it.

However, as the program I have in the logo totals daily stoker run time, you could manually multiply coal pounds per hour to get stoker coal pounds per day usage. By subtracting stoker daily run time from total time in the day, you could get your idle time per day to calculate idling coal usage.

I check the daily stoker run time sometimes out of curiosity when I am getting something from the cellar. I recently changed from fall to winter mode by changing from 4 to 5 teeth, changed the out fire time from 30 minutes to 40, and cleaned the firebox. It dropped the dailey run time by an hour.

My daughter changes the ashes, so unless I get a telephone call from the boiler notifying me that she forgot, I am the same as Rob, I don't normally check the boiler data (or the boiler for that matter).