elco burner repair cost

Do different models come with different burners?, my friend installed a Grant Vortex 50-90 Boilerhouse model very recently which has a Riello burner, my daughter is thinking of replacing her 20 yo Heatpac Firebird with a "Heatpac" Grant Vortex, what burner do these have??.

Thanks Jim, will go for that then sometime.

You loose a few percentage points efficiency though. I presume you are talking about over airing it and upping the fuel pressure.

The Elco seems to work well at higher CO2’s.

The first batch of the firebird condensing came with RDB2.2 and there were problems with sooting. There was a kind of solution, where you increase the fuel pressure and over air it a little. But the efficiency performance of the boiler was then reduced.

It was the best of a bad situation, but the Elco burner is a better solution. They don’t come with RDB’s anymore.

i disagree with the elco being a better solution. its a plug and play burner ,hard to pin point intermittant faults.costly repairs and sometimes its cheaper to fit a new burner than fit a new transformer.control box and photocell. this type of breakdown does not happen in riello burners