While my electrician was in the act of wiring a new thermostat to my steam boiler, the decades-old low-water cut-off shorted. He took it to a supplier, and the supplier gave him a replacement unit, but advised the electrician that my broken cut-off was actually intended for a water boiler.
My electrician is telling me that this isn't a real problem: we can plug-and-play the replacement part--a water boiler cut-off--and it will work just fine. He says that if we used a different part for a steam boiler, he'd have to do some additional rewiring that would cost me unnecessarily.
What are your thoughts? I would obviously prefer to have the right parts, BUT if it's true that this part will do the job adequately and save us some labor, I could be talked into going that direction. The boiler is a Weil-McLain E-7. It is 40+ years old.
My electrician is telling me that this isn't a real problem: we can plug-and-play the replacement part--a water boiler cut-off--and it will work just fine. He says that if we used a different part for a steam boiler, he'd have to do some additional rewiring that would cost me unnecessarily.
What are your thoughts? I would obviously prefer to have the right parts, BUT if it's true that this part will do the job adequately and save us some labor, I could be talked into going that direction. The boiler is a Weil-McLain E-7. It is 40+ years old.
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