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General Discussion / Re: Propane
« on: January 19, 2018, 07:01:13 PM »
Yeah I have never heard of harbor freight selling propane tanks??? 
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Portage & Main / Re: fan damper
« on: January 19, 2018, 07:00:20 PM »
Let’s clarify. You think you are losing 5 degrees between the boiler and the house? Can you confirm thst? If so your underground lines may have failed. That’s a lot over 120 feet. Do you have any snow melt?
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Hawken Energy, support only / Re: HE1100 Aquastat
« on: January 19, 2018, 06:57:42 PM »
I know. I had to look at the listing multiple times to figure out what I was missing. I thought about buying them all and flipping them for $50 each.
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Hawken Energy, support only / Re: HE1100 Aquastat
« on: January 19, 2018, 12:01:34 PM »
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Portage & Main / Re: Optimizer 250 / Gassing / Tenting Over Nozzle
« on: January 15, 2018, 02:50:52 PM »
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Troubleshooting 101
« on: January 15, 2018, 02:46:45 PM »
Time how long it takes for the boiler to go from the high set point to the low set point. This information coupled with the differential temp and gallons of water in the boiler will tell us how many btus per hour the heat loads are using at a given temp.
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Portage & Main / Re: Optimizer 250 / Gassing / Tenting Over Nozzle
« on: January 15, 2018, 08:14:20 AM »
Others with optimizers can talk to exactly the flow path of the air. My suggestion about the air settings would be to mark or write down what you are currently at so that you have a baseline to compare to and return to if needed. After thst I would open the reaction chamber door so you can observe your nozzle gassing and then expierement with how different settings affect your flame from the nozzle and affect your coal bed in the area of the nozzle.
Your wood may be drier than you have ever used but you stated that you have always struggled with running issues so just being drier than thst probably isn’t the best comparison. From what you described about when your wood was cut and split I see your moisture content being in the 40% area which is very difficult to burn in a gasser without a deep coal bed and small splits.
You didn’t say how big your splits are? Can you describe how you load the stove with wood?
Heating demands do your heat loads vary greatly from user to user. The only way to know how many btu and hour your house is using is to Time how long it takes for the boiler to go from high set temp to low set temp when idling. Best to do this 2-3 times during the day st a given outside temp. Then you can average the time and calculate th btu per hour.
Your wood may be drier than you have ever used but you stated that you have always struggled with running issues so just being drier than thst probably isn’t the best comparison. From what you described about when your wood was cut and split I see your moisture content being in the 40% area which is very difficult to burn in a gasser without a deep coal bed and small splits.
You didn’t say how big your splits are? Can you describe how you load the stove with wood?
Heating demands do your heat loads vary greatly from user to user. The only way to know how many btu and hour your house is using is to Time how long it takes for the boiler to go from high set temp to low set temp when idling. Best to do this 2-3 times during the day st a given outside temp. Then you can average the time and calculate th btu per hour.
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Portage & Main / Re: Optimizer 250 / Gassing / Tenting Over Nozzle
« on: January 14, 2018, 03:14:08 PM »
I have found with the g200 thst a coal bed of 2-3 inches is ideal as well.
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Advanced Electronics / Re: Wireless monitoring
« on: January 14, 2018, 03:11:44 PM »
Love it Marty. You have a heavy heat load. Looking at the house supply loop you can see how often it has to cycle. Looks like between an hour and 15 mins to an hour and 30 mins you are cycling. Cycling every 1.5 hours your are using 22,000 btu per hour.
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Portage & Main / Re: Optimizer 250 / Gassing / Tenting Over Nozzle
« on: January 14, 2018, 07:16:01 AM »
Karl. Do you mix smaller and larger splits? How about your coal bed? How deep do you run that?
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Portage & Main / Re: Optimizer 250 / Gassing / Tenting Over Nozzle
« on: January 13, 2018, 05:49:40 PM »
Karlk. What size are you splits and how well seasoned? His wood has been in 16 foot logs up until now and he doesn’t split it unless he can’t handle it.
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Portage & Main / Re: Optimizer 250 / Gassing / Tenting Over Nozzle
« on: January 13, 2018, 04:00:28 PM »
I have never ran your boiler but what you are describing is tenting caused by the wood on top of the coal bed not breaking down to coals fast enough to replenish the ones being used up. It is all a cycle. The coals need to break down the wood on top of them to wood gas and coals. If the wood is o wet, to large or doesn’t have good contact with the coal bed then the coals will be used up before they can break down the wood. You can work to fix this by splitting your wood smaller to help it have more surface area and break down faster. Do you have a moisture meter to check your wood mc?
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Portage & Main / Re: Optimizer 250 / Gassing / Tenting Over Nozzle
« on: January 13, 2018, 03:04:49 PM »Cabo has real expierence with your model. I only have expierence with a g200 but the principles are the same.
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Portage & Main / Re: Optimizer 250 / Gassing / Tenting Over Nozzle
« on: January 13, 2018, 02:44:31 PM »
Wood doesn’t dry in log length. I would suspect it is very wet for one thing. Also gassers don’t burn rounds well. You will need to start splitting everything into 4-6 inch diameter pieces and expieremnt with smaller and larger pieces.
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Adding storage questions
« on: January 13, 2018, 02:42:13 PM »
Well unfortunately you are limited by the amount of wood thst you can put it. The onboard water jacket just delivers the btus to the house after each cycle of the boiler. Increasing the water jacket size will just have the boiler run for longer to cycle and idle for longer as the house eats off the btus. But the wood burned to produce the btus will be the same.