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HeatMaster / Re: Water sample

« on: April 08, 2018, 06:05:29 PM »

Not sure why you haven’t received anything from them. Both samples I’ve sent in, I’ve got results back via email within about 2 weeks of sending them in

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HeatMaster / Re: Burn time in cold temps

« on: January 01, 2018, 08:41:34 PM »

 

I guess mine is not really out of line compared to your guys’ furnaces. I’m hoping I can tighten up my house a bit and fix some ductwork before next winter and see how it does then. My stove does seem to run a lot better though when I don’t worry about it and check on it every 30 minutes to check the temperature. Funny how if you let it do it’s thing it does just fine

"A watched pot never boils"

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HeatMaster / Re: Burn time in cold temps

« on: January 01, 2018, 06:43:09 PM »

I guess mine is not really out of line compared to your guys’ furnaces. I’m hoping I can tighten up my house a bit and fix some ductwork before next winter and see how it does then. My stove does seem to run a lot better though when I don’t worry about it and check on it every 30 minutes to check the temperature. Funny how if you let it do it’s thing it does just fine

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HeatMaster / Re: Burn time in cold temps

« on: January 01, 2018, 08:27:12 AM »

Ha, that could be because I didn't put in as much as when I load the other way. I guess I probably put in about 1/2 of what I would normally put in. Lol, I should've known better in this cold.

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HeatMaster / Re: Burn time in cold temps

« on: January 01, 2018, 06:28:47 AM »

Seeing as they're essentially the same stove, I would say you'll have better luck stacking perpendicular as I do. It was night and day difference for me, especially in terms of burning up the coals instead of having 10 gallons of them like you did this morning. I had about 2 gallons of coals left after I raked them, just a nice bed to cover the grates a couple inches thick.

Tried it last night and it didn't work in my stove. I loaded it about 9PM last night and woke up 6AM this morning to cool air blowing. Boiler temp was down to 117. Did have a few coals left, so it should get back going here in a bit. It was worth a try though. I suppose I could try one stack parallel and the next stack perpendicular and see if that might be better. I did that once before and it seemed like it did ok.

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HeatMaster / Re: Burn time in cold temps

« on: December 31, 2017, 09:52:36 AM »

I already filled it this morning, but I'll give that a try this evening when I load it again. It's supposed to be cold again tonight, which I'm sure you're well aware of. 10 day forecast is showing we may get above 0 by next Saturday.

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HeatMaster / Re: Burn time in cold temps

« on: December 31, 2017, 09:38:29 AM »

Burning 100% oak. Water temp was at 172 on the stove and as far as coals there were a quite a bit. After raking them they were just under the door opening from front to back. I stacked 2 rows deep running parallel with grates totally filled box slightly loose, not stacked tightly. I think it was you that I had talked to before about stacking opposite of the grates. I may try that again because in the milder weather when I tried that, it seemed to do pretty good.

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HeatMaster / Re: Burn time in cold temps

« on: December 31, 2017, 06:23:13 AM »

I had new windows put in a few years ago, but that's where the air seems to be coming through. I'll have to tear some outside walls out when it warms up a bit and see if I can get those sealed up. Built my garage a couple of years ago and it is 2x4 walls with r-13 insulation, attic is blown in to about r-30, under slab is 2" insulation and around the edge of slab is 1".

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HeatMaster / Burn time in cold temps

« on: December 31, 2017, 05:52:25 AM »

-19 this morning and it was -12 last night when I filled my stove. I filled it at 8:30 last night and when I say filled, I mean filled. I checked a couple of pieces of wood that I threw in and they were both 18% moisture reading. Had my damper set at 60%. It probably would have made it 12 hours, but I didn’t want to have to have to fight with it to get it back piping again. My house is ~1800sq ft kepping it at 75 all of the time, also doing dhw and my garage is 1080sq ft using in floor and keeping it at 65 all of the time. Just wondering if that is a decent burn out of this stove in these temps? House is a bit drafty in spots

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HeatMaster / Re: GPM?

« on: December 14, 2017, 10:31:29 AM »

Great! Thanks for all of your input gentlemen, I appreciate it.

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HeatMaster / Re: GPM?

« on: December 13, 2017, 06:51:59 PM »

Did a quick check on the supply and return right at my stove with my house calling for heat and had 176 on supply and 158 on return. I wasn’t running the hot water though and my furnace is variable speed so it only runs at 675 cfm. I’ll do another check this weekend with furnace call and running hot water.

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HeatMaster / Re: GPM?

« on: December 13, 2017, 09:27:48 AM »

I have both infrared and k-type thermocouples. I don’t really care for the IR myself, I prefer the thermocouples so that’s what I’ll use.

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HeatMaster / Re: GPM?

« on: December 13, 2017, 04:17:56 AM »

Thank you guys for clarification on that, I appreciate it. I will get some supply and return temps and go from there. It may be the weekend before I check them, but I'll post them on here when I do. Thanks again guys

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HeatMaster / GPM?

« on: December 12, 2017, 04:40:38 AM »

I'm sure this question has probably been asked, but I couldn't find anything on here. I was wondering if GPM has any bearing on wood usage or boiler efficiency? I guess what I mean is if I am running low flow(not what I should be running) will it cause my return temp back to the boiler to be lower and cause the it to drop the boiler temp faster than if I run at a higher GPM? The reason I ask is because after actually sitting down and figuring how much ft of head I have after 2 years of having this boiler, I figured out that I need a pump capable of 15.284 ft head to get my full 7gpm of flow through 1" pex. The pump that I have is not even capable of over coming that. On high speed my pump is only running around 5gpm according to the performance chart, so I'm not sure how what effect that has on my system. Maybe I'm figuring wrong. I'll tell you what I have. I have the small badger pump. My lines from boiler to the house and back round trip is 230' and my boiler is about 6ft lower than where the lines go into my house. They first go through an 20 plate hx then to a 16x19 hx in my forced air plenum. I run my boiler at 180F with 10 degree differential. My boiler takes quite a while to recover once it kicks on so I'm just trying to figure out if I need to change something in my system. I hope I worded all of this correctly. I appreciate any feedback from you guys. BTW, thank you to CountryBoyJohn for giving me advice to help me get my boiler burning like it should be.