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Free Burnham Installation & Service Manuals, Wiring Diagrams, Parts ListsLook for a label, usually silver or aluminum, on the interior of the boiler - remove the access cover. Find the boiler serial number, usually at upper right corner of the data tag where the manufacturing date is given in parehtheses:
Burnham Datsa Tag Format #1: serial number appears at upper right corner of the data tag as MM/YYYY where
MM = month of Manufacture
YYYY = Year of Manufacture
Our photo shows a date code of 09/2006 - manufactured in September 2006.
Burnham Data Tag Format #2: SERIAL NUMBER: 12345678(MM/YYYY) where
MM = month of Manufacture
YYYY = Year of Manufacture
Photo: Burnham Series 2 hydronic boiler.
Similar formats for age information can be used to decode or find the age of a U.S. Boiler company heating boiler.
Current heater models such as the Alpine, Freedom CM, CHG, Revolution, Es2, SCG, PVG, Series2, Independence, Minuteman, MPO, MegaSteam, V8H C3, C4, LE, LE-DV, RSA, Carefree, and Alliance - are documented at the US Boiler company's website and are easy to find. (The names above are registered Trademarks of US Boiler®™).
Sister brands for Burnham Boilers: U.S. Boiler, Thermal Solutions (Commercial boiler)
Illustration: the Burnham VS3000 Mixing Control Board used on some Burnham boilers. Part No 8010601.
Note: at the website link we give above for US Boiler you can also download these boiler manuals in Spanish.
Nota: en el enlace del sitio web que proporcionamos anteriormente para US Boiler, también puede descargar estos manuales de calderas en español.
Other U.S. boiler model manual are provided at this Technical library for US Boiler Co:., curren tsupport for Burhnham boilers - https://www.usboiler.net/usboiler-product-technical-literature.html
including for the U.S. Boiler K2 Gas boiler, K2 combi boiler, Sage zone control, ES2 gas boiler, Series X-PV gas boiler, Series 3 Gas boiler, Series 2 Gas boiler, Series X2 gas boiler, SteamMax gas steam boiler, Independence gas boiler, MPO IQ oil fired boiler, EMP Oil fired boiler, MegaSteam oil fired boiler, V8H Oil fired boiler, and the Alliance SL Indirect water heateras well as other US Boiler radiator and water heater products.
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Below you will find questions and answers previously posted on this page at its page bottom reader comment box.
Does my Burnham residential boiler need annual service. It worked fine last season. - Dick 9/19/11
Reply: yes
Yes, Dick, there is no Santa Claus; your heating boiler needs annual service not only to assure safe, reliable operation, but because without an annual cleaning, particularly for oil fired heating boilers, my experience is that the cost of operating the equipment will be significantly greater - the improvement in operating efficiency of an oil fired heating boiler following annual cleaning and adjustment can be significant - I've seen a 33% reduction in operating cost following cleaning and adjusting a dirty oil fired boiler or furnace.
On 2020-04-23 by Erinusps
Old boiler with serial number 7507932. Sorry my autocorrect out wrong words. Its a burnham brand. Beren in house built in 1942
Reply by (mod) -
Erin
So if the boiler is the original one we can figure it's the same age as the house.
Can you post photos of the boiler and of the data tag? (One photo per comment)
On 2020-04-23 by Erinusps
Serial number off old boiler removed from house. 7507932. My house built in 1942 curious to now old this boiler is - there's no date on it
I have a Burnham AC unit for the past 30 years, need a new compressor, B870WHEB 3.8 A,
the model is
B120WHEB,B870WHEBx2/b300c. Any idea where is can find a compressor ? On 2020-04-11
by Douglas
Reply by (mod) -
Douglas, there are generic replacement compressor motors that will work as long as the performance meets the original spec.
I would have a different answer (replace just the compressor motor) if your cooling system were 10 years old or newer.
But on a 30 year old condenser/compressor unit, there are several reasons to consider replacing the unit entirely:
- it is probably using an obsolete refrigerant no longer permitted
- other components may be at or near end of life
- the cost of replacing just the compressor motor may be close to the cost to replace the entire condenser unit
Illustrated below, a Kenmore OEM replacement compressor motor.
by Douglas
Hi Dan, appreciate the response and advice, so there is a compressor thats generic, i had and AC co look at it and said they cant get the part so i have to replace entire unit for over 10 K.
So your response leads me just to replace the compressor and then start looking for a more reliable AC co and options down the road
Reply by (mod) -
I wouldn't do that - it's too costly.
How do I find out the age of an 80,000 BTU Burnham gas hot water
furnace with Model No. P-204A-WNU - Kern 10/10/12
Reply:
Kern we'd need the serail number not the model number to determine equipment age. In general, just to get our terminology right, usually we call hot water heating equipment a boiler and we reserve the name furnace for warm air heating systems. I know there was an exception but that's generally the case.
A typical Burhham boiler data tag will show numbers like
Model RS-112 Ser- 35044173
or Serial No. 35 048911
or Serial# 01005880
It's that serial number you want.
I am researching the first serial number decode. For the second example, after the 35 (probably model number) the next two digits 04 are month and the nect two digits 89 the year of manufacture of the unit. In the third example we're stuck again - when you've found the serial number, I'd give the company a call, give model and serial number, and just ask them. Let us know what you learn as it will assist other readers.
You can contact Burnham Corporation in Lancaster PA at their customer service number 717-481-8400 or at 888-432-8887
We had a home inspection and are looking for the age of a Burnham residential burner:
Boiler Number: V-14A-T
Serial Number: 22 139081 On 2019-07-19 by Jim
Find the age of a Burnham residential burner:
BURNHAM Heating Boilers - manuals, age decoders etc.
are above on this page.
YOu'll see that the date of manufacture is usually given explicitly as MM/YYYY in the upper right corner of the data tag
Please attach a photo of the data tag for your Burnham boiler and I can comment further.
I want to know the year it was built (Jan 6, 2012) Burnham
Reply:
B. check the data tag and the advice given in the article above. You'll want to look at the product serial number not just model number.
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