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what do you guys set your anaylser at when servicing an oil domestic boiler?
 
I know the print out on Testo states CO2 max possible (theoretical) with kerosine is 15.4 %
So I must be set to kerosine.
I hope I am on correct setting. o_O
 
It does what it says on the tin.

I was renting it from heating world of spares which included calibration.

It's now mine and calibration is due in a month, son hopefully not too much.
 
Paraffin and 28sec kero are much the same. What we in the U.K. know as Paraffin (dum dum dum dum....Esso Blue) is just more refined than heating kero and is better suited for indoor appliances like Tilley Lamps and greenhouse heaters as it smokes less, but chemically it’s the same stuff.
35sec diesel is light oil - sometimes called gas-oil or Marine gas-oil (MGO). Intermediate fuel oil (IFO) is a medium weight oil (like engine oil). Heavy fuel oil (HFO) is ‘orrible thick industrial stuff than needs to be pre-heated.

Some analysers don’t discriminate between ‘Kero’ and ‘Light Oil’ as there’s not much difference in the figures produced.
 
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