Ok folks, I need some help figuring out what is going on with my system. Here recently I can't get a good burn time to save my life! It was 15 deg last night and I only got about 7-8 hours on a entire load. I've burnt all kinds of different wood from Locust and Walnut that was 15% moisture content to some chinese elm and oak that isn't exactly seasoned. It doesn't seem to make much of a difference. So, here are the details of my setup.
HM 5000e, 85 ft of 1" Rehau running into my basement and then it transitions over to regular one inch pipe that is wrapped in bubble wrap insulation. Once the pipe enters the basement wall it goes about 20 ft and then drops down 3 FT to my 20 plate HX. Once it goes out of the plate exchanger it goes back up and through a hole in a wall and then back down about 8 ft to my furnace HX and then back up and over and back out to the boiler. I drew up my setup and attached the picture if it worked. In the picture I also drew up a close up of my plumbing at the water to air HX. The round rings represent ball valves. I'm using a badger GPD25-10SFC on medium (27 GPM and around 27 FT of head loss). Temp on my stove is set at 184 with a 7 deg differential. I've tried different settings and it doesn't seem to make much difference.
Ok, now a little bit about my house. It's right at about 2100 sq feet now with a new room addition that I'm working on. We keep it around 68-70 most of the time. Some of the windows are really drafty and the house really doesn't heat well. When the wind blows the right direction my furnace will kick on about every 5-10 min even when the outdoor temp is around 25 or so. I had a Hardy H2 and could easily get 10-12 hours on a load with it.
What I changed with the Heatmaster is replacing my junk lines, going from 3/4 pex to 1" Rehau and I added a plate exchanger for DHW. I was hoping that I would be able to heat my 36x45 garage as well but how it's going now it won't be able to keep up. I don't think it is the stove that's the problem, I think it's something in my setup. Please feel free to give me your opinions!