Outdoor Wood Furnace Info
All-Purpose OWF Discussions => Plumbing => Topic started by: sstan on February 02, 2009, 07:36:22 AM
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Ok .. brain picking time .. dreaming of summer and using the OWB to heat my swimming pool. I picked up a HX and looks like I now will need a bigger pump. My current run is 100' (200 total including return) to the house exchanger .. the pool will be an additional 100' making it a 200' (400 counting return). My current pump is too small .. so I have been told to look for a taco 0013 or B&G PL36 ... is there any other brand comparable that I should keep my eye out for? As everyone in these times I am looking for a deal!!
thanks,
Steve
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Here is the link to a guy on ebay who has a store on ebay, I bought a BG pl36 from him, I paid $169 last summer I don't know if that was a good price or not. I also bought a heat exchanger from him and had good luck. Oh I see the price has gone up
http://cgi.ebay.com/OUTDOOR-WOOD-FURNACE-BELL-AND-GOSSETT-CIRCULATING-PUMP_W0QQitemZ390022601602QQihZ026QQcategoryZ20598QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem
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Ok .. brain picking time .. dreaming of summer and using the OWB to heat my swimming pool. I picked up a HX and looks like I now will need a bigger pump. My current run is 100' (200 total including return) to the house exchanger .. the pool will be an additional 100' making it a 200' (400 counting return). My current pump is too small .. so I have been told to look for a taco 0013 or B&G PL36 ... is there any other brand comparable that I should keep my eye out for? As everyone in these times I am looking for a deal!!
thanks,
Steve
Steve i have a taco 0011-F4 pump on my system i have had it for going on my 8th winter i am 250 feet from my stove i run a heat exchanger for my domestic water, rads for my heat plenium, a rad in my fireplace, a rad in my basemen pool room and radiant floor heat in a basement room of about 250 square feet.
my system is a little different than most...my pump is in my basement, when i built my stove i figured the basement is lower than the stove will be and it will be one less thing to worry about freezing if i was to have some sort of breakdown
so i am 500 feet on a round trip, i have never had a problem. i did however run 1 inch lines underground even though the guy selling me the pipe said 3/4 inch would do
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I haven't seen many of the new B&Gs but I do like how the Taco cartridge circulators work. Also, if you go to their website they have a nice place where you can see the specs on all of their pumps. So you quickly can see how much head and flow your pump will be able to ummm, pump.
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Ok .. brain picking time .. dreaming of summer and using the OWB to heat my swimming pool. I picked up a HX and looks like I now will need a bigger pump. My current run is 100' (200 total including return) to the house exchanger .. the pool will be an additional 100' making it a 200' (400 counting return). My current pump is too small .. so I have been told to look for a taco 0013 or B&G PL36 ... is there any other brand comparable that I should keep my eye out for? As everyone in these times I am looking for a deal!!
thanks,
Steve
my system is a little different than most...my pump is in my basement, when i built my stove i figured the basement is lower than the stove will be and it will be one less thing to worry about freezing if i was to have some sort of breakdown
so i am 500 feet on a round trip, i have never had a problem. i did however run 1 inch lines underground even though the guy selling me the pipe said 3/4 inch would do
Just sifting through the info on this wonderful site. I wonder if you can, willieG, tell me more about you setup. It sounds pretty close to what I want to do: DHW+ 900ft radiant+ 2 8000btu rads. I'll continue to mine info here and hope to answer my own questions but I need basic help with tempering valves, heatxcngr and such.
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seems like these questions always pop up , can you run a seperate set of lines off your owb for pool? when sizing a pump you also need to know the type of hx and size ,there is a sizeable amount of head/flow to figure in the calculations as weel as the lenght /size of pipe.