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HeatMaster / Re: Adding Make up water
« on: December 18, 2017, 06:13:11 PM »
Ours has lost about 3/4” on the float in 14 months. I need to add some when I get home in a couple weeks. Figure that’s a few, 3-4 gallons maybe? I know it tapers a bit at the top?
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HeatMaster / Re: Had a blinker
« on: December 17, 2017, 10:14:41 AM »
Honda.... two questions, where are you getting your temp feed from? And how did you hook up a WiFi sensor?
That’s awesome! I want one.
That’s awesome! I want one.
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HeatMaster / Re: Why is the furnace more efficient the colder it gets?
« on: December 16, 2017, 01:21:33 PM »
I have a G200, however my wife and I have the same observation... seems like. When it’s wicked cold, the boiler uses less wood?
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HeatMaster / Re: Wood Consumption
« on: December 16, 2017, 01:19:56 PM »
We are heating almost 3700 ft2 to 68 with about 500 ft2 garage heated to 40. Plus 4 users of DHW, 3 of them heavy users ( bet you can guess who’s not the heaviest user 
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Fired up Nov 1, so about 2.2 cords of dry but crappy wood. A lot of poplar. Like a real lot.
This in western Maine, on a very exposed hill, with our great room facing the wind and a huge amount of glass.
. Fired up Nov 1, so about 2.2 cords of dry but crappy wood. A lot of poplar. Like a real lot.
This in western Maine, on a very exposed hill, with our great room facing the wind and a huge amount of glass.
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HeatMaster / Re: G200 refractory firebrick nozzle cracks/ chunk
« on: December 16, 2017, 01:13:11 PM »
Just an update. The factory was able to send me some bricks.... unfortunately they didn’t show till I left. So I’ve asked the wife to be ginger throwing wood in, a real solid chunk of red oak coils surely help the top side crack too!
The factory says they have changed a few things in the way the pour the refractory which they hope will help it last longer. I hope so too. Just barely a year is too short.
Hope it hangs on for a couple more weeks till I get home. Fingers crossed.
The factory says they have changed a few things in the way the pour the refractory which they hope will help it last longer. I hope so too. Just barely a year is too short.
Hope it hangs on for a couple more weeks till I get home. Fingers crossed.
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HeatMaster / Re: G200 refractory firebrick nozzle cracks/ chunk
« on: December 04, 2017, 04:13:40 AM »
Thanks for the information, I plan to call this morning.
I suspect as long as the top part of the brick stays intact, which will maintain the nozzle dimension size, I think I’ll be alright.
Keeping my fingers crossed.
Love the unit, burns so darn clean with decent wood, and cold temps!
I suspect as long as the top part of the brick stays intact, which will maintain the nozzle dimension size, I think I’ll be alright.
Keeping my fingers crossed.
Love the unit, burns so darn clean with decent wood, and cold temps!
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HeatMaster / Re: G200 refractory firebrick nozzle cracks/ chunk
« on: December 02, 2017, 05:30:35 AM »
Here’s a couple pics if I can post them.
There pretty self explanatory, one is looking up from underneath, the other is the chunk itself.
For some reason the pic is displayed upside down. Not sure why.
There pretty self explanatory, one is looking up from underneath, the other is the chunk itself.
For some reason the pic is displayed upside down. Not sure why.
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HeatMaster / G200 refractory firebrick nozzle cracks/ chunk
« on: December 02, 2017, 05:24:21 AM »
He’ll all, so far been the start of another good heating season. No issues last year at all with my G200, worked flawlessly.
This year, startup was mint... and been good. Super clean burns, and all appears well. Yesterday I opened the reaction chamber for the first time in a week or so and to my dismay found a chunk of refractory brick laying in the bottom of the curved brick. It came from the bottom side of the right nozzle brick. Didn’t know it was hollow.
Machine seems to still be working fine, gassing perfectly well. Fingers crossed. My local dealer is gone, and now the only guy is in New York 6-7 hrs away(but doesn’t have any bricks anyway). In classic form I go back to sea in 10 days as winter is really cranking up.
Any thoughts on if it’s fine to keep going? And anyway to get bricks in the next week ? And anyone else had this problem?
Looks like the other side is cracked too, so probably not too far behind.
Thanks in advance.
This year, startup was mint... and been good. Super clean burns, and all appears well. Yesterday I opened the reaction chamber for the first time in a week or so and to my dismay found a chunk of refractory brick laying in the bottom of the curved brick. It came from the bottom side of the right nozzle brick. Didn’t know it was hollow.
Machine seems to still be working fine, gassing perfectly well. Fingers crossed. My local dealer is gone, and now the only guy is in New York 6-7 hrs away(but doesn’t have any bricks anyway). In classic form I go back to sea in 10 days as winter is really cranking up.
Any thoughts on if it’s fine to keep going? And anyway to get bricks in the next week ? And anyone else had this problem?
Looks like the other side is cracked too, so probably not too far behind.
Thanks in advance.
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HeatMaster / Re: Weekend trip G200
« on: January 12, 2017, 11:24:23 AM »
Too funny. I especially like the "green light," twist after the already funny tape it up.
I guess when it goes into that "cold mode," deal everything is off except the LED flashing itself right?
Probably over thinking it, but I start thinking about hours of the little circuit board or solenoid being forced to flash for hours on end. Would had to prematurely ruin it.
With that in mind, I kind of like the idea of raising the aquastat in the basement up, and then the boiler only has to keep itself hot? If you filled it all the way it would probably run for days and days just keeping the water in the boiler hot.
I guess when it goes into that "cold mode," deal everything is off except the LED flashing itself right?
Probably over thinking it, but I start thinking about hours of the little circuit board or solenoid being forced to flash for hours on end. Would had to prematurely ruin it.
With that in mind, I kind of like the idea of raising the aquastat in the basement up, and then the boiler only has to keep itself hot? If you filled it all the way it would probably run for days and days just keeping the water in the boiler hot.
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HeatMaster / Re: Weekend trip G200
« on: January 11, 2017, 05:52:49 PM »
Thank you sir! I know from a freeze standpoint that the oil boiler will take over, but won't the "problem light" flash all weekend?
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HeatMaster / Weekend trip G200
« on: January 11, 2017, 10:01:13 AM »
Hello all,
Thought I would pose a question here looking for some advice. Besides cutting wood, one of my favorite things to do is snowmobile... need some thoughts on what people do if they go away in the winter for a long weekend.
Of course, one solution is to find someone to come by and throw some wood in the boiler. If you didn't have that... would you fill it up when it was cranking along, and then turn off the boiler, leaving the circulator pump running? I assume it would smolder in there for a quite a while, the circulator pumps would keep the unit from freezing (the indoor boiler would eventually come on) I know it has the eventual cold start feature, but I wouldn't want that red light flashing for a whole weekend, not that anyone would see it where I live anyway.
I might run an experiment when I get home.
Thought I would pose a question here looking for some advice. Besides cutting wood, one of my favorite things to do is snowmobile... need some thoughts on what people do if they go away in the winter for a long weekend.
Of course, one solution is to find someone to come by and throw some wood in the boiler. If you didn't have that... would you fill it up when it was cranking along, and then turn off the boiler, leaving the circulator pump running? I assume it would smolder in there for a quite a while, the circulator pumps would keep the unit from freezing (the indoor boiler would eventually come on) I know it has the eventual cold start feature, but I wouldn't want that red light flashing for a whole weekend, not that anyone would see it where I live anyway.
I might run an experiment when I get home.
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HeatMaster / Re: First real test g200
« on: December 20, 2016, 04:53:39 AM »
Nice, thanks you. I'll tell you what, she's not afraid of the wood when it's minus temps out. Some mornings I'm surprised to see how much wood is left, others it's the other way around.
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HeatMaster / Re: First real test g200
« on: December 17, 2016, 05:59:27 AM »
By the way, one more time(at least) thanks again Slimjim and Mikey B!
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HeatMaster / First real test g200
« on: December 17, 2016, 05:58:13 AM »
As many places have, got our first real test the last couple days with our new G-200. It was -12 the other morning, and the wind was howling up here on our hill. The boiler performed wonderfully, way less wood burned than my buddies' competitor boilers.
Totally thrilled with it. Although with the temps and the wind, priority this summer is to build a nice wood shed with a wind break!
Totally thrilled with it. Although with the temps and the wind, priority this summer is to build a nice wood shed with a wind break!
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HeatMaster / Re: New G200 replacing a rusted out Shaver
« on: November 29, 2016, 06:30:52 PM »
I have had a similiar issue with mine. It actually went out a couple times on us. More recently now that we have been having more regular cooler weather (30's day, and 20's night) the wife hasn't reported any issues.
It is pretty easy to look at the settings in the Logo! control panel. Mine was factory set to run 3 min every 30min between cycles. I changed mine to 4 min. Not sure if that was a wise thing or not, but it's what I did. At the time we had issues, were the days when it was still in the 60's during the day , the boiler litterally wouldn't call all day except the 3 min. To compound that, I was really pushing it with the wood quality, really cramming some questionably wet stuff in there, experimenting with what I could get away with.
My situation is a little unique, I go to sea for a living, so my wife and son have to take care of the heating when I am gone. I need it to work with no issues while I am gone. The wife's onboard, but I also don't want to make it hard at all, or I'll risk her jumping off that wagon.
It is pretty easy to look at the settings in the Logo! control panel. Mine was factory set to run 3 min every 30min between cycles. I changed mine to 4 min. Not sure if that was a wise thing or not, but it's what I did. At the time we had issues, were the days when it was still in the 60's during the day , the boiler litterally wouldn't call all day except the 3 min. To compound that, I was really pushing it with the wood quality, really cramming some questionably wet stuff in there, experimenting with what I could get away with.
My situation is a little unique, I go to sea for a living, so my wife and son have to take care of the heating when I am gone. I need it to work with no issues while I am gone. The wife's onboard, but I also don't want to make it hard at all, or I'll risk her jumping off that wagon.
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