Outdoor Wood Furnace Info
All-Purpose OWF Discussions => General Outdoor Furnace Discussion => Topic started by: gainerspot on February 21, 2016, 06:54:25 PM
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Has anyone installed a wireless temp display in the house to see what the furnace temp is without going outside?
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http://www.amazon.com/Maverick-Range-Wireless-Smoker-Thermometer/dp/B00FOCR4UI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456108084&sr=8-1&keywords=Maverick+ET-733+Long+Range+Wireless+Dual
That is what we use and it works great. Just tucked it under the insulation supply and return. It reads lower than the boiler but we just scale it up after a bit you know what good temps are. You can set high and low alarms also.
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My burner is in sight of the bedroom window. I use a pair of binoculars to read the digital gauge. :)
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My burner is in sight of the bedroom window. I use a pair of binoculars to read the digital gauge. :)
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I have a digital system which uses an organic binary on/off pulse.....
when the cat is "on" the heat register - fire is good
when the cat is "off" the heat register - add wood
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+1 on the Maverick BBQ thermometer.
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I use the maverick too, I have one probe on the water jacket and one in the stack. That way I can tell where its at in its cycle also. And you can tell if its out of wood or if she needs a cleanin'.
I had to clip the wire going to the beeper. I must be almost out of range for it because at night sometimes it would lose signal and wake us up. It generally finds signal again in an hour by itself though.
In Liberty!
Ben
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Just a word of caution on the Maverick idea. The transmitter and receiver have to have line of sight, I have a dual probe maverick strapped to both the supply and return at my stove but I has unable to find anywhere in my house that the receiver can pick up the signal from the transmitter. I am still glad I purchased it because I can see both my supply and return temps at the stove every time I go outside but I am not able to put the Maverick transmitter inside and pick up a signal. I ended up buying a cheap $5 digital cooking thermometer with a probe but that doesn't have the wireless function like the Maverick and strapping it to the supply line where it enters the house in the laundry room so I can see what the temp is from inside the house.
I strapped the probes to the pex with metal tape and then wrapped them in pipe insulation and they read within one degree of the gauge on my boiler.
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I have a digital system which uses an organic binary on/off pulse.....
when the cat is "on" the heat register - fire is good
when the cat is "off" the heat register - add wood
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My burner is in sight of the bedroom window. I use a pair of binoculars to read the digital gauge. :)
lol....it goes right along with owning a OWB, most people wouldn't get it but darn, burning wood is so fun that's hard to take your eyes off of it, hence bino's. :thumbup:
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I told my wife that wood heats 5 times more than any other fuel source.
1 when u cut it,
2 when u load it in the truck/trailer,
3 when u stack the wood
4 when u load it into the owb
5 when it burns in the owb
Now I think about it 6 when I spread the ashes in the garden.
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lol....it goes right along with owning a OWB, most people wouldn't get it but darn, burning wood is so fun that's hard to take your eyes off of it, hence bino's. :thumbup:
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There is just something about heating with wood that you have cut and split yourself. A self reliant, be prepared thing like we learned in Scouts. Keep the gun loaded and within reach kinda...
Some years ago I picked up a wireless two channel unit. Used it to monitor the hen house, outdoor temp while winter driving, basement crawlspace temp etc. Moved it all over the place as needed. Finally stuck it up in the guest suite someplace (we only heat it for company). Now it reads two degrees warmer than our bedroom but we have been trying to find the transmitter since Sept with no luck....
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I work in the oilfield and they look at me crazy when I tell them about heating with wood. Most are to lazy to cut it let alone split it. I tell them it cost me less than $1.00 a day to keep my house at 74' all winter long.
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I like your profile patvetzal: I'm right with you, 75A woods and pasture, a sweet wife, a few sheep, a fishing rod, a few guns, plenty deer meat in the freezer, warm house. What more could a country boy want?
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I put temp gauges on my supply and return where they come into the house. They read really close to the boiler temp. Never thought to use the cat , prob the best use for that darn thing. I do find myself often staring at my g-200 marveling at how clean it burns and how little wood I go through and how we never kept the house 70+ when we were using oil.