Prestige Condensing Boiler with TriMax Control Leads Market in Ease of Use

Friday, January 20, 2012 by Gerry Clisham
The Prestige Solo Condensing Boiler and Prestige Excellence Combination Boilers have bPrestige Condensing Boilereen improved, making them the most user friendly boilers available today.  Prestige boilers revolutionized the high efficiency boiler industry when they were introduced nearly 10 years ago.  Over the years many improvements have been made and the product line has developed to meet the market needs.

The new generation of Prestige boilers has been designed to simplify boiler installation and set up.  As an example, the wiring terminals have been located in the front of the boiler with high and low voltage separated and each terminal clearly marked.  This minimizes the length of wiring needed inside the cabinet and ensures proper connections.

The Prestige Heat Exchanger has been improved as well.  Triangle Tube introduced the first residential stainless steel fire tube heat exchanger in the Prestige nearly 10 years ago.  Everything we have learned during this time has helped us develop the latest generation heat exchanger to be more reliable and efficient.

Prestige TriMax ControlThe unique TriMax control is both the most powerful and the easiest control available.  The TriMax 60 second EZ set up allows the installer to configure both the space heating and domestic water heating controls in less than a minute.  The TriMax also has advanced features such as multiple thermostat and circulator control and a cascade feature to join multiple boilers.  Because we want installers to be able to make the most of these features we made it simple to configure them with the large graphical display and clear English (or French) on-screen instructions.

Look for more information about the new Triangle Tube Prestige boilers in future posts ! 

Prestige Cascade beats Alaskan Cold

Tuesday, December 27, 2011 by Gerry Clisham

Alaska Housing AuthorityWhen the Anchorage Housing Authority approached Bittner Plumbing and Heating to upgrade the heat and hot water for their 44 unit apartment building, they wanted a system that would be efficient and reliable.  Paul Bittner of Bittner Plumbing and Heating worked with Mark Herrington at Heating and Ventilation sales to design in a Triangle Tube Prestige Cascade boiler system with Smart Indirect Water heaters to do the job.

Prestige CascadeThe 44 units are heated with baseboard radiation and the hot water for all units is provided by the twin 120 gallon Smart tanks.  ThePrestige Cascade Condensing Boiler unit is built with three 399 MBH boilers.  This provides a highly efficient and effective boiler plant.  By combining the three boilers, a turndown of over 10 to 1 is achieved.  This helps the plant run efficiently with parallel modulation.  With three boilers, the building has the reliability of redundancy in the event of a boiler error or maintenance.  The three boilers are vented with a common vent manifold to minimize the vent piping and provide a single vent pipe.

Smart Indirect Water HeatersThe Smart Indirect Water Heaters are also both highly reliable and efficient.  The inner stainless steel tank is designed to expand and contract as the water temperature changes during use.  This tank expansion eliminates scale build-up which reduces efficiency and leads to tank failures.  The unique tank-in-tank design provides a large surface area for heat transfer which reduces the amount of time required to heat the water.  These two Smart units replaced conventional direct fired water heaters.  The Smart tanks have 2" of foam insulation completely surrounding the tanks, keeping heat loss down to less than 2 degrees F per hour.

The Housing Authority's decision to upgrade their cast iron boilers and conventional water heaters with Triangle Tube's efficient Prestige and Smart models is saving money every day. As the heating season progresses I will post the savings data.