Stanley superstar oilfired cooker

[Doug1]

Hi there, I'm currently plumbing a renovation for a client, who wishes to install a Stanley superstar oil cooker, which he is getting refurbished. Anyone any ideas on how to link to heating? I have saw installations before, where the cooker was piped into a neutraliser, or locally known as a pot system. Although this particular system had several heat sources, I.e solid fuel back boilers. I intend to just have the cooker as primary heat source. Can they be fully pumped? Or treat them like a back boiler, ie gravity hot water, with heating linked in via injector t and pipe stat? Any info regards this would be appreciated. Thanks

 

[Best]

Think you are getting mixed up with different systems. A neutraliser needs just the gravity pipes from a solid fuel boiler. Generally these pipes on an oil boiler need a pump because the oil boiler will shut down on its thermostat.
The injector tee method is for 4 pipe connections to a boiler going to 3 - gravity flow, combined gravity & pumped return (through injector tee) & a pumped flow.
Why do you need a neutraliser if only one heat source?

 

[SimonG]

Its only 60,000btu isnt it? That includes the cooker side as well I think. It is the single burner cooker?

 

[lame plumber]

wont cook very well if all the heat is going to rads n HW

 

[Doug1]

Think you are getting mixed up with different systems. A neutraliser needs just the gravity pipes from a solid fuel boiler. Generally these pipes on an oil boiler need a pump because the oil boiler will shut down on its thermostat.
The injector tee method is for 4 pipe connections to a boiler going to 3 - gravity flow, combined gravity & pumped return (through injector tee) & a pumped flow.
Why do you need a neutraliser if only one heat source?

Yeah m8, I wasn't planning on using a neutriliser, have just came across this with as you say multiple heat sources, I have also saw them linked with injector t, with just 2 primary's working on gravity to coil, and the return from rads pumped through an injector back to cooker controlled by a pipestat. This particular model that we are using only has 2 connections. I'm wondering weather I need to work on the principal of gravity hot water? Or can I treat it as a normal boiler and fully pump and zone hw & ch?

 

[Doug1]

Its only 60,000btu isnt it? That includes the cooker side as well I think. It is the single burner cooker?

Yeah not sure as to output, but yeah it's a single burner model with the manually operated baffle door, which switches between Cooker and ch.

 

[Doug1]

wont cook very well if all the heat is going to rads n HW

It it has a manually operated baffle which switches between cooker and boiler mode, which you move when you need to cook