im installing a hot water zone off the steam boiler can you help on the piping and wiring on this with a circulator and arelay and a aqustate
The problem you are going to have is that although these two systems use close to the very same boiler. They operate in very differant ways. For generating steam to heat with the boiler is not filled completely. Actually only about half way. This creates and area for steam production and that steam travells through your pipes as a hot gas, ie. steam. As it cools it returns to the boiler as condensed water and reboils. These systems have low water shut off valves and operate on lower pressure. When these systems are set up for hot water heat the system is filled completely with water. It is air tight and has an expansion tank, pressure reducing valve, back flow preventer, a means of bleeding the air out of it and circulators to create a pressure differential to move the water through the pipes. The water is then heated to about 180 to 210 degrees fh and flows from the boiler to each radiator, fan coil or floor heating system. It returns to the boiler to be re-heated and continues until temperature levels in the living spaces are reached. Since these two system use many of the same features one would assume you could have them work together. But to my knowledge this is not true. Because although they both look like the same animal they are not. It may be easier for you to convert the entire system to hot water than to try and add one zone as hot water. Or vise versa heat your new zone with steam as well. Best advise is to check with a professional contractor that does this for a living. Many give free estimates and can point you in the right direction.
