Age of heating equipment & Systems:

How to determine the age of your heating system and components. Here we provide several excellent sources for de-coding the data tag information on heating equipment.

This article provides documents that explain and translate all of the data found on information tags and stickers used on heating & heat pump equipment, including equipment age, heating capacity, electrical requirements, and operating characteristics.

Heating System Equipment Age - Guides for Reading HVAC & Water Heater Equipment Data Tags & Serial Numbers

If you don't know whether your heat is provided by a furnace (hot air) or boiler (hot water), or whether your fuel is oil, gas, or electric, and whether your heat is hot water, steam, or warm air, see HEATING SYSTEM TYPES.

Then return to this page for help finding the equipment's age or date of manufacture.

Five HVAC Heating & Air Conditioning Equipment Age & Data Tag Decoders

Our photo shows data tags on a Weil McLain gas fired heating boiler that was manufactured on 10/10/1996. [Click to enlarge any image]

We found the boiler age by de-coding the boiler's CP/serial number code on the white sticker just above the data tag. Below we explain how we did that.

For help in decoding air conditioner, boiler, furnace, heat pump, water heater data tags and determining the age, model, or specifications of that equipment, we provide five different research methods listed below.

1. AGE of HEATERS, BOILERS, FURNACES - you are on this page information about general approaches to determine heating equipment age.
   
   BOILER / FURNACE AGE GUESSER - use this list of clues if your boiler or furnace has no data tag or the data tag or serial number cannot readily be decoded into a date of manufacture.
   
   
2. AIR CONDITIONER BOILER FURNACE AGE, MANUALS & PARTS GUIDES - HVAC - to FIND YOUR HVAC EQUPMENT AGE or MANUALS use THIS MASTER INDEX - age, history, manuals & manufacturer contact information sorted by individual brand name.
   
   This separate article series gives manufacturer contact information, free manuals and repair guides, and more data tag decoding for just about all heating, air conditioning, and heat pump brands.
   
   You HVAC Equipment Age Decoders sorted by Manufacturer-Brand in These Guides
   
   

   MANUALS & PARTS GUIDES - HVAC Brands A-E - & Master Index to All Brand Names, HVAC Age, manuals, wiring diagrams, installation and repair guides

   MANUALS & PARTS GUIDES - HVAC Brands F-I - Brand Names beginning with F - I HVAC Age, manuals, wiring diagrams, installation and repair guides

   MANUALS & PARTS GUIDES - HVAC Brands J-O - Brand Names beginning with J - O HVAC Age, manuals, wiring diagrams, installation and repair guides

   MANUALS & PARTS GUIDES - HVAC Brands P-S - Brand Names beginning with P - S HVAC Age, manuals, wiring diagrams, installation and repair guides

   MANUALS & PARTS GUIDES - HVAC Brands T-Z - Brand Names beginning with T - Z HVAC Age, manuals, wiring diagrams, installation and repair guides

   
   
3. AGE of AIR CONDITIONERS & HEAT PUMPS DATA TAG DECODER - data tag decoder using the serial number in the data tag to get cooling or heat pump equipment age
4. AGE of WATER HEATERS provides guides and water heater (calorifier, geyser, hot water cylinder) manuals sorted by brand, with extensive equipment data tag decoding information for water heaters.
5. Manufacturer websites: A few manufacturers offer free online boiler or furnace data tag decoders that give the equipment's age.
   
   We include links to any such websites we can find both here and in our
   
   ONLINE HVAC EQUIPMENT DATA TAG DECODER
   
   or
   
   AGE of AIR CONDITIONERS & HEAT PUMPS or MANUALS & PARTS GUIDES - HVAC pages that we listed just above.
   
   CONTACT us if you find a helpful manufacturer's site or data tag decoder that's not given in our four sources above.

Free Online HVAC Equipment Data Tag Decoders

We provide links to individual manufacturer's data tag decoding guides (Lennox, below), and to two excellent equipment data tag decoding books, by Scott LeMarr (online at this website) and the Carson Dunlop & Associates Ltd. Technical reference - the most extensive such document we've found.

For many heating or cooling equipment manufacturers, especially after 2000, decoding the equipment tag to obtain the age of the device is sometimes pretty easy.

But equipment age, capacity, specifications are not always so easy to recognize on the data tag. Here we explain how to dig out that information.

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1. Lennox HVAC products Age:

see our LENNOX Heater & Air Conditioner Model & Serial Number Decoding Guide [PDF] at this website. Also see

2. FURNACE AGE DECODING CHART [PDF]

provided by home inspector Scott LeMarr has generously shared his document that decodes both furnace age for many brands of water heater, including hot water systems produced by the following manufacturers.

[PDF linked to return here. You can also use the "BACK" button on your browser to return to this page at InspectAPedia.com.]

LeMarr's document provides decoding data for the following manufacturers:

Ambassador water heaters, American water heaters, ACE water heaters, A.O.Smith water heaters, Apollo, Aqua Temp, Aqua Therm, Best water heaters, Bosch water heaters, Bradford White, Cafos, Champion, Crosley, Energy Saver, Envirotemp water heaters, GE water heaters, Glascote water heaters, Golden Knight water heaters, GSW, Hotpoint water heaters, JC Penny, Jetglas, JW or John Wood, Kenmore water heaters (Sears Brand), Lochinvar, Lowes, Mainstream, Maytag water heaters, Montgomery Wards, Knight, PermGlas, Reliance water heaters, Revere, Rheem water heaters, Rheem/Rudd/Richmond water heaters, Rinnai, Security, Shamrock water heaters, Standard water heaters, State/Reliance/Sears brand water heaters, Thermo-King, Vanguard water heaters, US Craftsmaster, US Water Heaters, and Whirlpool water heaters..

3. Boiler Data Tag serial n umber, e.g. for a Peerless Heating Boiler Age Decoder
   
   If the boiler was manufactured from 1984 to 1999, the serial number ends in a four digit date code. “123456-1284” would be manufactured in December, 1984.
   
   If the boiler was manufactured from 2000 to present, the serial number ends in a six digit date code. “123456-200505” would be manufactured in May, 2005.
   
   See details at PEERLESS BOILER AGE & MANUALS
   
   Find your specific boiler or furnace brand and its manuals & age & manufacturer contact information in our master list
   
   at MANUALS & PARTS GUIDES - HVAC - home - Master Index to All Brand Names & HVAC manuals, wiring diagrams, installation and repair guides

4. Factory Website online age decoder - eg. Weil McLain Heating Boiler Age Decoder,
   
   at https://www.weil-mclain.com/cp-lookup      will decode the heating boiler's CP/Serial Number. At the company's website you will find these instructions:
   
   Enter the 7-digit CP/Serial Number of the boiler to obtain the manufacturing date and any associated information on the product.
   
   If the CP# is only 6 digits, enter a leading zero, e.g. 0137718. This look-up will not give manufacturing information for any other Weil-McLain product but boilers. Currently, no information is available for EG and EGH boilers.
   
   For those models you'll need to call the manufacturer, found at WEIL McLAIN Manuals
   
   When using off-site links like the one we give above, use your browser's "back" button to return to this website.

Carson Dunlop Associates' Technical Reference Guide decodes equipment data tags

Carson Dunlop Associates' Technical Reference Guide (below) provides the most extensive HVAC equipment data tag decoder & other information to determine the age of boilers, furnaces, water heaters, air conditioners, and heat pumps by decoding the product serial number.

For the most complete and very detailed HVAC equipment data tag and age decoding information anywhere (about 128 manufacturers & brands)

Carson Dunlop, Associates, Toronto, have provided us with (and we recommend) Carson Dunlop Weldon & Associates'Technical Reference Guide to manufacturer's model and serial number information for heating and cooling equipment

Special Offer: Carson Dunlop Associates offers InspectAPedia readers in the U.S.A. a 5% discount on any number of copies of the Technical Reference Guide purchased as a single order. Just enter INSPECTATRG in the order payment page "Promo/Redemption" space.

The Carson Dunlop Technical Reference Guide provides both equipment data tag decoding data and also manufacturer contact information as well as historical dates for many brands of heating and cooling equipment. Included in the manufacturers listed are also makers of ancillary equipment such as controls, circulator pumps, etc., not just boilers, furnaces, and heat pumps themselves.

The age of a heating boiler, furnace, or heat pump can be determined by identifying its year of manufacture that is encoded in the unit's serial number (not the model number). The guides above give heater serial number decoding for each manufacturer and type of heating appliance.

For example, when decoding the age of an H.B. Smith heating boiler one of our readers provided the following from his boiler's data tag:

H.B. Smith, Westfield MA
Series G200
Boiler Model # G200-W-5CON
Serial # J80-2747

For an HB Smith boiler the age is typically the two digits following the letter at the beginning of the serial number. In this case the "80" following the "J" tells us that the boiler was manufactured in 1980.

Later H.B. Smith boiler serial numbers use the format XXyyyy-nnnn where yyyy will be the four-digit year of manufacture.

Manufacturers & brands of HVAC Equipment and Parts identified and decoded in the CDA Technical Reference Guide include about 128 different brands of equipment sold in North America

• A companies:
  
  Aaon, Inc., Ack-O-Matic, Aero Burners, Aero Environmental, Airco, Airtemp and Tempmatic, Aitons' Equipment - APCO, Allanson Transformers, Amalgamated Electric, Amana, American Standard, American Standard Water Heater Group, Amtrol, Anthes, APCO, ARCO Air, Arkla Industries, Armstrong Air Conditioning Co., S.A. Armstrong,
• B companies:
  
  Baltimore Aircoil of Canada, Bard, Bell & Gossett, Borg-Warner, Bradford White, Bristol Compressors, Bryant manufacturing Co. of Indianapolis, Buffalo Package Equipment, Bulloch, Burke Water System Industries, Burnham Corporation,
• C-E companies:
  
  Canadian Tire Corporation, Carlyle Compressor Company, Carrier, Chromalox Canada, Chrysler, Clare Brothers, Clare Mega Save, Clare HECLA, Clawsey-Sohrt Manufacturing Co., Climate Control Products, Climate Master, Climatrol, Coleman, Comfort Aire, Copeland, Copelaweld Compressors, Crane, Davie Environmental Equipment, Day-Nite, DMO Industries, Ducane Heating Division, Dunham Bush, Duomatic, Economite, Elect-Aire, Electric Apparatus COmpany, Elliot, Emerson Electric Company, Enmar Enmar Systems, Envirotron, Esso, Evcon Industries,
• F-G companies:
  
  F.P. Industries, Fairbanks Morse, Fedders, Fess, Findlays Limited, Flamemaster, Fleetline, Florida Heat Pump Manufacturing, FMC Corporation, FP Industries, Franklin Electric Company, Frick, Friedrich, Frigidaire, Frigiking, Fuel Master Burners, G.M.L. Manufacturing, GSW Inc., Galais Manufacturer, Galaxy Boilers, General Controls (ITT), General Electric, Gilbarco, Gilbert and Barker, Goettl, Good Cheer, Goodman, Grimsby Stove and Furnace Ltd.,
• H-K companies:
  
  Heat Controller Inc., Heil, Hill York, Hitachi, Homart, Honeywell, Howard Furnace and Boilers, Howell Electric Motors Company, Hydrotherm Inc., I.C. Burners, ITT, Inglis, Inter City Gas (I.C.G.), International, International Comfort Products, Intertherm, Iron Fireman, Janitrol Heating and Air Cooling Conditioning, John Wood Co., Johnson Air Ease, Keeprite, kenmore, Koldwave, Kool-Fire,
• L-O companies:
  
  The Arthur S. Leitch Co., Lennox Industries, LG, Lincoln, Louis Allis Company, Luxaire, Magic Chef Air Conditioning Co., Mgnatec, Marathon Electric, Marcus Transformer, Marley Cooling Tower, Marvair, McLary, McQuay International, Mestek, Metzger, Metropolitan Oil and Gas Industries, Mid Continent Metal Products Co., Miller, Mitsubishi, Modine, Mueller, N'Furno, Nordyne, Norseman Boilers, Oakwood Iron Works (OIW), Olsen,
• P-S companies:
  
  Payne, Pendell Boiler Ltd., Philco, Powermatic, Precision Boilers, Preston, Pyreco, Raypak or Raypak, RBI Water Heaters, Refcan, Reznor ITT, Rheem, Roberts Gordon, RUUD, Sanyo, SJC Corporation, Scarboro Pump Manufacturing Co., Sears, Sears Roebuck, Severn Boiler, Simpsons-Sears, Shell, Singer, Slant Fin Ltd., A.O. Smith, H.B. Smith Co., Smith Boilers, Snyder General Corp., Spacepak, Spencer Boilers, State Industries, Sterling HVAC Products, Sun Dial Manufacturing Inc., Sunscan Compressors,
• T-Y companies:
  
  TACO (Canada), TACO, Tappan, TECO, Techumseh Compressors, Teledyne Laars, Tempmatic, Temprite, Tempstar, Thermo Pride, Trane, Typhoon, Unitary Products, viessman, Viking, Warden King, Water Furnace, Watts Regulator Co., Weben jarco, Weil-McLain, Westinghouse, Whirlpool, White-Rodgers, Wood, Worthington Air Coils Ltd., York - Borg Warner.

How to Use Heating Equipment as Indicators of Building Age or Building Age as to Figure Equipment Age

Indoor heating methods by historic periods or years: (adding date ranges is continuing for the list below - Contact Us to contribute).

Illustration of a Warn Air Heating System Using a Gravity Furnace

Our photo (left) shows a gravity warm-air "octopus" furnace; in its earliest version these furnaces, installed in the late 1800's in the U.S. were coal fired; many were later converted to oil.

Gravity furnaces rely on natural convection (warm air rises) to deliver heat to the occupied space.

There is no blower fan in the system. In their simplest design, the gravity furnace system included no ductwork whatsoever. Rather a large grate was provided in the building floor just above the furnace itself. In a multi-story house, heat rose to upper floors by passing up the stairwell or through open registers in first floor ceilings.

The gravity furnace we show at left was a more advanced design in which an "octopus" of duct work "arms" delivered heat directly to individual areas of the building.

The furnace in our photo is taking much of its "return air" from the basement - a very expensive way to heat a home. Earlier models eschewed ductwork and instead fed heat into the first floor of the building through a large central grate in the floor immediately above the furnace.

• Central fireplaces, no chimneys
• Indoor fireplaces, chimney in building or on exterior building wall
• Free-standing wood-burning stoves, the Franklin Stove
• Coal burning free-standing stoves;
• Kerosene stoves
• Coal fired octopus furnaces and steam boilers (photograph above) 1850 - 1930. Some of these heaters have continued into contemporary use after having converted to oil-burners.

• Oil burners: different types of oil burners, coal conversions, low speed, high speed, high efficiency.
  
  Audel's 1946 Oil Burner Guide originally sold for $1.00 U.S. and includes photos and sketches of its generation of oil heating burners, boilers, furnaces, radiators, steam and hydronic systems, as well as control devices. Frank Graham's no-heat diagnostic steps are still useful today and is provided free at InspectApedia.com beginnning
  
  at AUDELS OIL BURNER GUIDE, INSTALLING, SERVICING, REPAIRING

If you don't know what kind of heat your building uses, we explain how to figure out the answer

at HEATING SYSTEM TYPES.

If your heating system is not working properly,

see NO HEAT - BOILER or NO HEAT - FURNACE.

Beginning at HEATING SYSTEMS - home we discuss different types of heating systems such as

• AIR CONDITIONING & HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS - heat pumps and air conditioners
• BOILERS, HEATING - hot water or "hydronic" heating systems
• CONDENSING BOILERS/FURNACES- high efficiency hot water heating boilers
• ELECTRIC HEAT - electric baseboards, furnaces, convectors
• FURNACES, HEATING - forced or gravity warm air heating systems
• STEAM HEATING BOILERS- steam heating systems

We also discuss various heating appliance fuel types (coal, oil, gas) as an aid in determining the age of a home or other building.

Antique Gas-Fired Floor & Wall Heater

Reader Question: Royal Heater in-floor gas fired heater history

I just bought a home in California. It has a dual sided, vent less, gas floor heater.

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The only name I see is " Royal Heater". there are 2 valves; one for burner, one for pilot.

You need a key to turn them. On top of the unit is a view finder cap. Inside it looks like a 3 burner pilot

. I have attached photos of it. I'm trying to find any information on it. thank you.

[This particular heater] works beautifully and has been inspected. I want to find a operator's manual so I can maintain it.
- G.L., 16 Jan 2015

Reply: history of Royal Metal Works gas fired floor heaters in California

G.L.

The Royal brand in-floor gas heaters were originally designed in California in the late 1920's - we have a patent (Publication No. US1666367 A) by Louis Clausing (Burlingame CA) assigned to the Royal Metal Works (his own company held in partnership with Max Schwartz describing an earlier version of the product dated 1928: "Heating device." U.S. Patent 1,666,367, issued April 17, 1928.

Your photos below illustrate the internals of this floor-wall gas heater.

That that company was Royal Metal Works, 238 Van Ness Ave, in San Francisco, CA. That patent was cited by other product patents between 1943 and 1982.

Below your photo shows the gas controls including main valve (left) and pilot valve (right-hand stem).

And in the next photo, below, you've shown the pilot flame (I think).

The company filed just three patents, two for heaters and one for metal bending:

• Publication No. US1666367 A - heater 1928 (filed 1923) [PDF]
• Publication No. US1700559 A - heater 1929 (filed 1923)

and

• Publication No. US1808019 A - an interesting method for bending corrugated metal - 1931 (filed 1929) and perhaps involved in the manufacture of the heaters in the earlier patents.

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There is presently a [different] California Royal Metal Company (in fact several of them)
who might be able to give you more historical data, is a sheet metal fabricator whose business was established in 1981 but who may have known of the older Royal Metal Works who made your heater:

Royal Metal, Ted Rieck Enterprises Inc, 1228 South Wright St., Santa Ana, CA 92705 USA Phone: (714) 542-4763 Web: Royalmetal.com

Unless you object, I'll add your photos to data we have at InspectApedia and will leave you anonymous (our default) unless you let me know that you want to be identified. That may attract comment from other readers who have similar products.

I'll attach the documents of interest to this article.

Watch out: I would not assume that the heater you have is safe to use without both a thorough visual inspection and testing for gas leaks as burning LP or natural gas in a defective appliance can produce fatal carbon monoxide gas.

I would suspect that your device may also lack safety features of modern gas heaters. If you are going to ignore my timid warnings then at least be sure you have working CO and smoke detectors properly located and installed.

Other antique wall heating convectors are shown at WALL CONVECTORS HVAC

Heating Equipment Data Tag Location & Identification

This discussion explains where to find the data tag on air heating equipment.

To see specific details for your heater (boiler, furnace, heat pump, etc) you will need to know the brand and hopefully the model, then see

AIR CONDITIONER BOILER FURNACE AGE, MANUALS & PARTS GUIDES - HVAC

Heating equipment data tags are usually found on the exterior of the heater, usually on its top, front, or sides.

On occasion you may find the data tag information inside of the heating device, accessed by opening a removable front cover.

Often by removing the front cover of a forced warm air furnace, the equipment data tag is found inside the furnace jacket on the left, right, or directly on the exposed face of the furnace itself.

In our first photo shows gas fired heating boiler located in a garage.

The yellow arrow points to the common location of the equipment data tag on the upper left side of a Weil McLain heating boiler.

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Furnace Data Tags Often Are Behind An Access Cover

Some gas furnaces sport a data information tag on the furnace interior left or right side, visible only after removing the front cover.

Below is the data tag for a rusty old Holland gas furnace, visible on the front of the furnace above the gas burner tubes, accessible only when the furnace front cover door has been removed.

Other Information Tags Are Not Equipment Data Tags

Watch out: not all of the information labels, tags, stickers seen on and in heating appliances are data tags. Don't get confused and don't think that because you cannot find the model and serial number on a label that the equipment has no data tag.

Look further on the outside and inside of the device. A true "data tag" includes brand, model name, and serial number, often along with other information.

Other labels on heating equipment may give warnings or usage instructions, like the label I show below. This sticker gives model and oil burner nozzle guide information for System 2000 boilers by Energy Kinetcs - a boiler I installed in a New York home nearly 20 years ago) but this is not the unit's data tag.

Taking a further look around this same System 2000 Energy Kinetics boiler we spot the actual boiler "data tag" giving its model and serial number on a smaller sticker that I show below.

Also see DATA TAGS on AIR CONDITIONERS

Age of the Boiler or Furnace as an Indicator of Building Age

Example of How to sort out shared names such as Flamemaster & Climate Master

If the heating equipment in your building is original - which may be determined by visual inspection, by knowing the building age, or knowing the heating system age, then each of these can inform us about the probable age of the other.

For example, an original Flamemaster (or Climatemaster) gas fired heating furnace is probably 40 or more years old even if you cannot find the date code in the furnace serial number.

Watch out: Names and who is using them can change over time: for example the name "Flamemaster" appears on other products such as sealants, coatings and packaging produced by Flamemaster in Pacoima California, US - not a heating equipment manufacturer.

The product line Flamemaster gas furnaces shared product designs with ClimateMater. ClimateMaster continues in business (in 2015) as a manufacturer of geothermal heat pump systems.

• Bow Valley Resource Services, Ltd., Flame Master Gas Furnaces, (previously a 1960's company named Hi-Tower) a Canadian firm in Calgary, Alberta, also previously filed for activity in the U.S. in California, no longer active.
  
  This company may have also produced model 394 & 396 Natural-Draft Flame-Master gas furnaces and gas furnaces sold under the brands of Bryant, Day & Night, and Payne Furnace brands. Estimated cessation 1986.
  
  See FLAME-MASTER FURNACES
• Climate Master Geothermal Heating & Cooling, 7300 S.W. 44th Street Oklahoma City, OK 73179 405-745-6000, USA, Website: http://www.climatemaster.com/
• Flamemaster Coatings, Flamemaster 13576 Desmond Street Pacoima, CA 91331-2315 Office Hours: Mon – Fri: 8:30a to 5:00p PST Tel: 818-890-1401 – Fax: 818-890-6001 USA, website: http://flamemaster.com/http://www.climatemaster.com/
• Pyrotec, TUV Nord Systems GmbH & Co. KG, in Germany produces a Flamemater propane flame projector - looks terrifying.
• Other Flame Master products include Keating's low temperature griddle.

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Reader Q&A - also see RECOMMENDED ARTICLES & FAQs

On 2023-04-08 by InspectApedia Publisher - determine the age of an Electro-boiler

@david ilac,

Can you post a photo of the Electro boiler data tag?

On 2023-04-08 by david ilac

Cant seem to find info on how to determine the age of an Electro-boiler

On 2023-04-02 by InspectApedia Editor

@Vas,

We're glad to assist and welcome your questions, comments, content-suggestions. DF

On 2023-04-02 by Vas

@InspectApedia Editor , Thank you for explaining this. It's means it this pic no light presents, panel is off. It's only dummy panel boiler will be not kicked in for the heat.

On 2023-04-01 by InspectApedia Editor - there are four conditions for that light to be red or amber

@ Vas:

Continuing:

About that red light: it's on when there is a call for heat. Here are four conditions for that light - excerpting from the manual:

RED “ON” – AMBER “OFF” BB Contact Closed - indicates weather calls for heat-heat circulation not yet established

RED “ON” – AMBER “ON” BB Contact Closed, Heat Circulation - established, indicates “ON” period of cycle is being timed

RED “OFF” AMBER “ON” BB Contact Open - indicates “OFF” period of cycle is being timed

RED “OFF” AMBER “OFF” BB Contact Open -

indicates either

(1) outdoor temperature is above setting of outdoor thermostat, or

(2) program clock is in “OFF” period

I agree with you that this is a much more complicated heat control than a simple wall heating thermostat.

That's in part because the control includes a feature that monitors outdoor temperature and tries to adjust the heating system operation for greatest efficiency depending on the outdoor temp.

The good news is that after selecting a few settings, you can run this control in "automatic" mode and pretty much leave it alone.

If you're too cold, go to the knob called HEAT ADJUSTMENT and simply turn it up one number value. But the company says that normally during the heating season you should never need to adjust this setting.

The "Night" thermostat allows you to turn off heat completely at night - an energy savings feature that you wouldn't exactly want if weather where you're located is so cold that pipes might freeze.

The round dial with numbers is a program clock: it needs to be set to the right time of day, and then in turn it controls the daytime and night time heat operation.

Another control, the DAY THERMOSTAT DIAL should be set to the OUTDOOR temperature at which you want the building heat to be OFF - another heating cost savings feature.

Not to worry, when it's cold indoors, as the company explains:

When the outdoor temperature is below the setting of this dial the amount of heat provided each hour will be regulated by the Heat-Timer and will be proportional to the weather and the specific heat requirements of the building.

On 2023-04-01 by InspectApedia Editor - what light is supposed to be on for a Heat Timer Corp heat control

@Vas,

OK thanks for the photo.

That's a heat control produced by Heat Timer Corporation,

HEAT TIMER CONTROL Model EPU INSTRUCTION MANUAL [PDF] Heat Timer Corp., - retrieved 2023/01/01 original source: heat-timer [dot] com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/EPU_Manual [dot] pdf

for which you can download a PDF copy of the instruction manual for your Heat Timer Model EPU
here
at

inspectapedia.com/heat/Heat-Timer-EPU-Manual.pdf

Take a look at that PDF as the most thorough explanation of that heater thermostatic control, then ask us any specific questions you like.

Please also tell us the country and city of your location.

Here's the company's contact information

Heat-Timer® Corporation
20 New Dutch Lane
Fairfield, NJ 07004 USA

Phone: 973 575 4004
Fax: 973 575 4052

Web: https://www.heat-timer.com/technical-support/

On 2023-04-01 by Vas

@InspectApedia Publisher, Sorry it's looks like pic was not loaded

On 2023-03-30 by InspectApedia Publisher

@Vas,

Sure, we'll be glad to help. But to be useful we need to know what equipment we are discussing.

Example: a room wall thermostat used to control heat doesn't usually have a "red light".

Post a photo of the device and that can give us an idea of what you need.

also, in

ARTICLE INDEX to HEATING SYSTEMS https://inspectapedia.com/heat/Index_Heating_Systems.php

you'll find descriptive and "how it works " and "how to use" articles on almost ever component in heating systems. We have a similar index for air conditioning.

We realize that that information can be overwhelming. That's why I asked you to be a bit more clear on exactly what you want to understand so that we can be more useful.

On 2023-03-30 by Vas

If somebody can explain it to me how that the thermostat system works, what light supposed to be on all times? Thanks

On 2022-10-28 by InspectApedia-911 (mod) - rusty Thatcher Furnace Company furnace or boiler

@Jake,

That's a very rusty Thatcher Furnace Company furnace or boiler.

See

THATCHER COMFORTMAKER HVAC Heaters & Air Conditioners

where we'll add your nice photo and where we've published some Thatcher Comfortmaker history, age guess guides, manuals, etc.

On 2022-10-27 by Jake

Looking for the age on model 1018

On 2022-10-20 by InspectApedia (Editor) - age of my Heil furnace

@John,

See

https://inspectapedia.com/heat/Heil-HVAC-Manuals.php

HEIL® Heating & Cooling Products

Age & Manuals

On 2022-10-20 by John

I'm trying to find out the age of my furnace. It's a Heil Model #BGA 120 1, Serial #66204 D60

On 2022-08-30 by InspectApedia (mod)

@Bart,

Is there a datatag on it anywhere that you could take a photo of and share here so we can see it? The serial number, not the model number, is what will give us the information we need to help determine the age.

find the data tag if there is one, then see

SEARS / KENMORE HVAC AGE MANUALS & PARTS

On 2022-08-30 by Bart

I have an old Sears/Homart boiler (model #: 229-111). Can someone PLEASE tell me the year that this was manufactured?

Thanks.

On 2021-04-28 by danjoefriedman (mod) - Fraser & Johnston Co. A/C and Furnace data tag

@Alf Jomoc, Thank you for the photo and question as it gives me a reminder to summarize for readers

"How to find the Age or Manuals for your Air Conditioner or Heater"

First: at the link I'll give you will be disappointed -as am I , that we don't have a reliable "age decoder" for OLDER Fraser Johnston A/C Furnace equipment serial numbers like yours; I'm spending more effort on this and will update the Fraser Johnston page as I find more help on this.

Yours is an older unit, whereas currently Fraser Johnston equipment is a York International product for which we do have manuals and details.

Your photo shows a Fraser & Johnston Co. A/C and Furnace data tag.

You could Fraser & Johnston information including age decoding from the serial number on this page (given in the article above)

MANUALS & PARTS GUIDES - HVAC Brands F-I - Brand Names beginning with F - I HVAC Age, manuals, wiring diagrams, installation and repair guides

inspectapedia.com/heat/HVAC-Manuals-Air-Conditioners-Boiler-Furnaces-F-I.php

When you land on that page you can scroll down it's alphabetic listing to see the live link at FRASER JOHNSTON HVAC or you can use the Ctrl-F feature of your browser to search the page for "Fraser Johnston"

OR you could have used the Search Box on any InspectApedia.com page to search for "Fraser Johnston"

FRASER JOHNSTON HVAC

There you'll see what we know about that company and decoding its equipment age, along with a copy of your photo of a Fraser Johnston Co. data tag.

On 2021-04-27 by Alf Jomoc

Hello, what year was is this model? Thank you.

On 2021-01-27 - by (mod) -

Fred

Take a look at the manuals and their warranty info for Hydrotherm Boilers at https://inspectapedia.com/heat/Hydrotherm-Age-Manuals-Contact.php

My OPINION is that a cast iron boiler is likely to last 30-40 years; steel, less. Leaks and water damage are key determinants along with proper maintenance.

On 2021-01-26 by Fred Blount

I have a Hydro Therm Model RC-165A boiler. Probably manufactured in 1978 0r 79. How long will it last? And where can I find replacement parts such as burners?

On 2019-11-17 - by (mod) -

Tiena

We we need to do this is to identify the brand and then model of your heating equipment and then find that manufacturer in the indexed Articles above where they are arranged alphabetically. When you find a manufacturer you'll see the decoding detail for that particular company's product line.

Can you just have a serial number and no other information we're lost in the dark.

On 2019-11-17 by Tiena

How old is this unit MP-3371 t-179177

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