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Portage & Main / Re: Ran stove all summer
« on: October 17, 2019, 06:49:22 PM »
Taco viridian pump on speed 1. I run a grundfos on my boiler boiler anytime the boiler cycles to make sure I am moving the water around. Winter time I usually bump to speed 3

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Portage & Main / Ran stove all summer
« on: October 15, 2019, 05:08:44 PM »
Just sharing for people who may want info on running stove for domestic water. I was able to knock around 100$ off my electric bill by running my stove instead of water heater. I have an entire circulator that I ran on speed 1 which used 8 watts of power ran stove non stop never once lost a fire. On average I'd use 3 20" oak splits for 24hrs. I've been really happy with the overall performance of the stove. I do have a positive air stop on my draft I believe this helps me have absolutely no condensation in my upper heat exchanger which had been asked by a dealer if I was having any of these issues. Just turned bypass valves back open this morning weather is cooling off here in Michigan. Happy heating

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Plumbing / Re: Sizing copper coil for storage
« on: January 27, 2019, 04:33:57 PM »
I'm wanting to add storage for efficiency of stove and going to do solar in the summer for domestic water so that I don't have to burn wood year round. Burning wood saves me 100$ a month in electricity but it's a pain to do in the summer would rather shut it down. Wouldn't flow rate affect recovery time only as long as it is insulated well? If you have 180 degree water flowing through a submerged coil iits surrounding will eventually get 180 correct? Just more coils the more surface area so the faster this would happen. Correct me if I'm wrong I'm always up for learning

I think I know now what you are saying about flow. It's not so much the heating up of the buffer is the problem but the actual output of it when btu's are called for correct ?

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Plumbing / Sizing copper coil for storage
« on: January 27, 2019, 06:32:17 AM »
I can't find any info on how long (surface area ) or btu rating for copper coil heat exchanger. I'm looking to add 500 gallons of storage to my system. Any input is appreciated

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Plumbing / Re: Side arm poor performance findings
« on: March 05, 2018, 06:34:28 PM »
Thanks for the reply I'll look into them.

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My setup

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I have noticed with my p&m that if my wood is real dry like standing dead burn times go down the drain. If I throw in some dry with some wet or burn just spring cut wood burn times go up and can see my stove gassing into upper heat exchanger. I am not a scientist or good at science but I believe there needs to be a certain amount of moisture in the wood to support the burning of syn gasses. Great to hear your having success with the dry wood be interested to know mc %

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Plumbing / Re: Side arm poor performance findings
« on: January 30, 2018, 06:40:43 AM »
All good wreckit just wanted to get some info out there on problems that can happen with these side arms most people don't seem to have a lot of issues with them. I'll be getting a softener soon does anyone have any suggestions on brand? Up flow vs down flow? Seems like the upflow is way to go less water during regen and a lot less salt.

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Plumbing / Re: Side arm poor performance findings
« on: January 29, 2018, 07:57:29 PM »
Brass all day

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Plumbing / Re: Side arm poor performance findings
« on: January 29, 2018, 05:26:20 PM »
I pulled it all apart replaced 3/4 copper pipe which was a little difficult and some elbows. It's all back together now and seems to be working better than it ever has. I was in my house for a year before I hooked it up wondering if this has been a problem since day one. I have never blown an element and from how all the crap on the bottom of my tank looked it was scale that had been falling off of them as it was building up then cracking off.

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Plumbing / Re: Side arm poor performance findings
« on: January 29, 2018, 02:34:12 PM »
So I do have hard water which I didn't realize until this just how bad it was. The majority of the build up was In the upper section about 3 inches down that upper elbow. My thought is that the thermal syphon was drawing the build up from the bottom of my tank and built up there. The bottom section had no build up what so ever. My water heater had 3 inches on the bottom that took me a lot of vacuuming to get out flushing did nothing. This is an electric water heater house of 5

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Plumbing / Side arm poor performance findings
« on: January 29, 2018, 09:35:03 AM »
Side arm has been installed for 2 years and worked ok for first year then this year had to turn water heater on as a helper. I started to look into it farther and side arm was hardly working at all. Decided to investigate and here's what I found

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Portage & Main / Re: fan damper
« on: January 23, 2018, 05:37:50 PM »
185 set point 5-6 diff. My stove recovers fast at this temp and if I let it do a long burn it starts to boil pretty bad

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Portage & Main / Re: New draft stop
« on: January 14, 2018, 08:12:30 PM »
Do you think the insulation helps, I thought about it but didn't know if it would be good for the pumps to be covered up. That 34-44 is an awesome boiler, I would like to try some coal in mine sometime.
I believe it helps not much for insulation on the back. I have an ecm pump mounted in the house. Originally my 15-58 was out there but I got pissed off when I had to re-plumb back of the stove to draw from the bottom unlike what the manual said. Not a lot of room back there. Used my 15-58 for my secondary loop. I have not tried coal do to the fact I'm getting wood for cheap or free and have no coal source like that.

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Portage & Main / New draft stop
« on: January 14, 2018, 04:10:16 PM »
So I have always been disappointed with the constant smoke out of my chimney while idle so I decided to do something about it. The stock draft stop is pretty piss poor even though it is fool proof it doesn't ever 100% seal. I had a throttle body around and was able to get a good buy on the belimo actuator so decided to remount fan and change it up. The actuator is a tfb120 spring return which I wired up an outlet off my aquastat to plug into. So far it's been working great I see less smoke out my chimney and hope to see less creosote as well. A pic of the setup still have some tweaking to do with actuator mounting. I also want to say that I am very happy with this stove this is the second stove I have had at same location and this thing is superior to the other. I believe they all have there pros and cons but I have been happy with my choice in this stove.

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