Common Combustion System Design Mistakes

Poor Planning

Everything seemed to be going so well. The components came in promptly, and you wondered why other companies that you talked to were going to take so long just to put together what, to you, seemed like a standard combustion system. But then the service guys showed up to help in the assembly and everything started going downhill. The problems began immediately. The size of the system that showed up dwarfed the area that you'd set aside for it. Components that should work together are found to be incompatible. More parts are being ordered daily, and your start date for production looks to be further and further away. Of course, these new parts aren't just being gifted to you. Their cost is added faithfully to the bottom line, and with every turn of a wrench you can almost see your descent into debt.

Not long after this nightmare is underway, it'll occur to you that the people you've paid to build this combustion system walked in with all the confidence in the world but no plan of attack. So they ordered pieces and parts without really knowing whether or not they would work, and charged them to the job. They took for granted that five-year-old drawings for a combustion system that sounded similar to yours would suffice. They neglected to sit down and do the necessary math to ensure that the system they built for you would run efficiently. And so now you're up a creek, stranded at the plant over the weekend, bending over backwards just to try and get the thing running. All of this before you have any physical proof that the system will even meet your needs.

Over the course of this fiasco, it will become clear that you should have shopped around a bit more. You'll realize that someone should have been working with you more closely to determine exactly what it was you wanted and needed in a combustion system. The initial savings you envisioned will be swallowed by extra parts, fuel costs, and frequent maintenance visits. The machine that was supposed to make your life easier has been a bane almost from the very start. You should have called Thermal Products & Solutions.