42 march 2014 | FUEL OIL NEWS | www.fueloilnews.com
By GeorGe Lanthier*
What's in Your toolbox?
W
e live in a wondrous age where by using
many of the tools and meters available to
us we cannot only work smarter, but also
faster — and that's a good thing! These
are some items that we have made for us and will hope-
fully help you solve a few problems. The motivation for
most of these came from requests from tradesmen like
you and a couple of them are from some of my previ-
ous articles. After searching for someone to make them
to my specifications, we're pleased to announce they
have become very popular.
The first is our #111 RIELLO Deviator Switch, Figure
1. The switch is based on a procedure I first learned in
Italy. The procedure is a RIELLO pump priming tech-
nique that I've taught in our seminars since 1983 and
shown in my books and when used correctly is foolproof.
The process only requires the #111 Deviator Switch and
my clear instructions for use. There are a lot of really bad
urban legends about the RIELLO pump out there, but
when properly installed, and more importantly primed,
they will do anything any other single-stage pump will do,
and maybe better, and that's a FACT! If you can't get the
Riello pump to work like any other single-stage pump,
then the problem is not the pump.
T h e D e v i a t o r r e p l a c e s a
"switched cad-cell" and lets you
quickly and easily prime the
RIELLO pump under any pip-
ing condition including overhead
lines. I've shown thousands how
to make this invaluable switch but
now it's available and ready-to-go
with no soldering required. The
#111 is for priming the pumps
on RIELLO MECTRON, 40 and
G5D burners quickly and eas-
ily. It also acts as a basic control
troubleshooting tool.
Used as a priming tool it can
overcome problems with:
• Overhead lines
• Oil safety valves (OSVs)
• Long horizontal lines and
vertical lift conditions
The #111 makes priming a
RIELLO pump in any vacuum
application easy and you can
find more about its uses on our
website and in our RIELLO OIL
Handbook, available at www.
FiredragonEnt.com.
The second tool is our newly redesigned #210 Cad-
cell Stimulator, Figure 2. This is another of my designs
that easily determines internal logic circuit integrity and
troubleshoots virtually any U.S. made cad-cell control
ever made. The tester proves the "safe start circuitry"
is functioning and easily checks the control "hold-in"
and safety timing functions within 5 minutes. With an
ohmmeter, Figure 3, like our 81B and the Stimulator you
will be able to find and correct many control and flame
detection system problems. It works on virtually every
oilburner primary control for burners firing less than
20 gallons an hour and includes controls from the 1960s
HVAC/ HYDRONICS
Figure 1 Figure 2
Figure 3
