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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / so u think its cold out today....
« on: February 06, 2015, 09:49:34 AM »
cold and clear ...makes for great light shows!!
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / help needed "wood burning bans/fines " ^%$#@#$%
« on: January 29, 2015, 10:01:33 AM »
http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/fairbanks-assembly-members-propose-fines-burn-bans-to-reduce-pollution/article_067a3434-9d5c-11e4-9f19-ef51e5315aae.html it don't affect me... ...BUT it does bunch of my bud's ... fine's for smoke from your stove that "leaves your property" ... 660' setbacks ..... no burn days !!!! .gov is out of control imo , WHAT have u folks done to fight this chit? there is a big meeting tonight and we need some help ...iIT'S -40 BELOW OUT SIDE AND THEY DON'T WANT U TO STAY WARM .... WTH!!^%$#@! see the frozen air live here > http://www.newsminer.com/arctic_cam/
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Grundfos ALPHA , repairable /warranty ?
« on: January 26, 2015, 11:27:16 PM »
Grundfos 15-? ALPHA , buddy had one "run dry "do to a boil over" repair or warranty ? I told him to toss it !...well I could be wrong ..but a run dry ,is the fault of the owner....he thinks I know everything ..well the secrets out > I have not a clue! Any of u guys delt with this yet?
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / HOW TO POST photos 101 !
« on: January 22, 2015, 08:46:38 PM »
I got this way to post pics from my home forum > do this and lets see them pic's! >>>>>> 1) Enroll on a free photo hosting website to upload pictures to. Most people use photobucket ) since it is free and easy to use so my directions are based on them.
2) Once you have your Photobucket membership, upload photos to the site from your computer. Do this by clicking the "Browse" button near the center of your screen. This will bring up a window you use to find the pictures you want to upload. (Typically pictures are stored under C:\...\My Documents\My Pictures, but it could be different on each computer). Double-click on the image file that you want to upload. You will see the file address show up in the "Picture" dialog box beside the "Browse" button you just used. Now click "Submit" just below the dialog box. Your pictures will be sent to your photobucket account. It may take some time depending on the size of the image file. If you have more than one image to upload at a time, click the expand arrow (the little "down" arrowhead button) on the "Submit Multiple Pictures" dialog box and select the number of images you want to upload. Follow the same steps for each image as outlined above.
3) Now your images should appear near the bottom of the page. They will be thumbnails that you can double-click on to expand to full size if you want. Underneath each image there will be three dialogue boxes (A Url, a Tag, and an Img box) with text in them. For the purposes of posting a picture here you will only be concerned with the "Img" line. (The URL line can be used in your profile to submit a picture for your avatar, but I am not going to get into that here.)
4) Single click on the IMG text in the "Img" dialogue box. This should highlight the text. Copy this text (Either by using Ctrl+C or right clicking and selecting "Copy").
5) Paste what you have copied into your post here. It should show a [IMG] at the begining and the end of the line you pasted. Make sure that there is a space between your post text and the [IMG]'s (no spaces in the part you pasted, just between what you pasted and the text of your post).
6) Finish off your post and preview it. Make sure the photo is there and then submit your post. If the photo is not there, check your pasted link to make sure you didn't miss a bracket somewhere or inadvertently put a space in the line somewhere.
That should be it. I hope to see all of your great pictures soon!
SS
2) Once you have your Photobucket membership, upload photos to the site from your computer. Do this by clicking the "Browse" button near the center of your screen. This will bring up a window you use to find the pictures you want to upload. (Typically pictures are stored under C:\...\My Documents\My Pictures, but it could be different on each computer). Double-click on the image file that you want to upload. You will see the file address show up in the "Picture" dialog box beside the "Browse" button you just used. Now click "Submit" just below the dialog box. Your pictures will be sent to your photobucket account. It may take some time depending on the size of the image file. If you have more than one image to upload at a time, click the expand arrow (the little "down" arrowhead button) on the "Submit Multiple Pictures" dialog box and select the number of images you want to upload. Follow the same steps for each image as outlined above.
3) Now your images should appear near the bottom of the page. They will be thumbnails that you can double-click on to expand to full size if you want. Underneath each image there will be three dialogue boxes (A Url, a Tag, and an Img box) with text in them. For the purposes of posting a picture here you will only be concerned with the "Img" line. (The URL line can be used in your profile to submit a picture for your avatar, but I am not going to get into that here.)
4) Single click on the IMG text in the "Img" dialogue box. This should highlight the text. Copy this text (Either by using Ctrl+C or right clicking and selecting "Copy").
5) Paste what you have copied into your post here. It should show a [IMG] at the begining and the end of the line you pasted. Make sure that there is a space between your post text and the [IMG]'s (no spaces in the part you pasted, just between what you pasted and the text of your post).
6) Finish off your post and preview it. Make sure the photo is there and then submit your post. If the photo is not there, check your pasted link to make sure you didn't miss a bracket somewhere or inadvertently put a space in the line somewhere.
That should be it. I hope to see all of your great pictures soon!
SS
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / city blames smog on..wait ..wait for it > smoked pork!
« on: January 19, 2015, 02:10:46 PM »
> DAZHOU, China, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- As parts of China choke under dangerous levels of smog, an environmental official in the southwest China city of Dazhou said he has pinpointed the cause: smoked bacon.
ROTFLMAO!! Glad to see the " lefty demoncrates" are world wide ,and not just loose in the USA!! Read more: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/01/17/One-Chinese-city-blames-smog-on-smoked-pork/5651421518052/#ixzz3PItXRlTO
lord help us!!! ...(and if u are a lefty demoncrate, that means u can pray to whom u want... well other then that one where they cut off the heads ...of wood boiler owner's
)
ROTFLMAO!! Glad to see the " lefty demoncrates" are world wide ,and not just loose in the USA!! Read more: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/01/17/One-Chinese-city-blames-smog-on-smoked-pork/5651421518052/#ixzz3PItXRlTO
lord help us!!! ...(and if u are a lefty demoncrate, that means u can pray to whom u want... well other then that one where they cut off the heads ...of wood boiler owner's
)
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / some interesting terms ,on what is a cord of wood ...c&p'ed
« on: January 15, 2015, 02:07:23 PM »
1-My understanding has always been that, although a cord is technically a content-agnostic unit of volume, a "cord of wood" was assumed to be split, loosely stacked wood. "Loosely stacked" means that it is stacked, but no specific effort is made to puzzle-piece the wood together to remove air gaps. 2- father talked of selling cord-wood delivered for $10.00 a cord in 1927. One customer would split some sticks down to kindling size and drive them into the pile trying to get a "Solid" cord of wood. 3-back when Abe Lincoln was cutting and splitting wood, a cord was 4' x 4' x 8' "stacked tightly enough so that a squirrel could get through, but the cat chasing him could not".
4-rule of thumb is a 4x4x8 pile of rounds will grow abut 10% after splitting/stacking. In processing wood, every step from tree to a finished split adds more air to the pile. 5- If I split the wood and stack it I can get an easy 3 cords, if I stack rounds, I am getting about 2 and 1/4 6- To get the most wood for your money when buying firewood, buy it 'in the round'. A measured cord of rounds will produce a full cord of splits and some left over (about 10%) 7- The modern definition of a cord that is almost universal in all Weights and Measures regulations is 4'x4'x8' of tightly stacked wood OR 128 Cu Ft .............. MY SELF I DEMAND MY CORD WOOD DELIVERED SPLIT AND STACKED LIKE SO >
4-rule of thumb is a 4x4x8 pile of rounds will grow abut 10% after splitting/stacking. In processing wood, every step from tree to a finished split adds more air to the pile. 5- If I split the wood and stack it I can get an easy 3 cords, if I stack rounds, I am getting about 2 and 1/4 6- To get the most wood for your money when buying firewood, buy it 'in the round'. A measured cord of rounds will produce a full cord of splits and some left over (about 10%) 7- The modern definition of a cord that is almost universal in all Weights and Measures regulations is 4'x4'x8' of tightly stacked wood OR 128 Cu Ft .............. MY SELF I DEMAND MY CORD WOOD DELIVERED SPLIT AND STACKED LIKE SO >
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / wind chill / bs = pet pev !
« on: January 06, 2015, 10:06:49 AM »
Anybody else tired of the weather folks on the tube and their "wind chill" maps....u can't tell me the dammm wind is blowing the same all over a state OR that the wind in different in the upper half vs lower half of said state OR that its blowing all the time !!!! Besides, wind chill ONLY WORKS ON THINGS THAT ARE ALIVE!! A dry wooden chair placed outside is ONLY going down to ambient temp !! If your alive ...you are only going down to ambient temp!! < only fast-er cause of evaporation ! What a crock of chit ..the weather folks only want to run around like chicken little and justify their worthless lives chasing crap that aint !! there i feel better !
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Tips and pointers i have learned / join in we can learn something long winded..
« on: December 29, 2014, 05:28:18 PM »
Here is what I have learned in the pass two months of running my pressurized outdoor wood boiler along with some tips u mite/could use ! 1. load it for the weather , filling it full and letting the AQ-stat do the work will result in a boil over 2. I load my stove with a log on each side and coals in the middle , and any logs I add I stack on either the of the 2 original logs = self feeding ,if I’m a bit lite on hot coals I may add a small stick or two "between the logs" or coal (that works great btw ) to keep up the fire! 3. I added a on –off- on switch , hooked to a AQ-stat on the first 30" of my iron 1.25 boiler supply pipe –to kill the 2 fire air supply fans, when the boiler falls below 130 degs = no more letting the fans blow air on a "non extant" fire/fuel /cause I failed to add enough wood or I was not there to fill ( its a lot easier to get back up to temp from a 130 then say 80 degs or even worst, if we ever have any cold weather this year ! lol I’ll get to test it out even more , no fuel in stove and minus 30 air …it would not be fun! ! 4 . bubble wrap is worth less J …here I’ll copy and paste my own post …and what u can do to improve your project >Quote from: AirForcePOL on December 19, 2014, 01:35:26 PM
I put some of the foil bubble wrap insulation around my plate exchanger.....
bubble wrap is a waste of time an $$ > :Dat a 1.1 r value (IF it is NOT touching said object) it has to be - 1.2 to 2" away from what ever u wrap to get the reflective R-value> best to get some foam and screw and build a box around it and fill with spray foam the "yellow, door and window" is best- as in denser / and many more small air bubbles captured in it.....don't use any water based crap!! do not apply on hot/while hot pipes/whatever, it will not "set", apply cold and it will turn to dust ...have a spray bottle of warm water /set on very fine mist and spray item before u apply the single component cans of foam ,and mist it when done ! = more volume = harder texture= 50+ more useable foam per can !!.......
I have spoken ! lol....... 5. U guys with forced air for the fire I need/help me come up with a system to "cut the fan/s off, once the fire is going, BUT hold the flapper open and let the fire burn naturally –instead off blowing it up the c-pipe ! (I’m working on it!) right now I’m thinking a R.I.B time delay , the AQstat would cut power BUT the flapper would hold off on falling back down for 2 minutes ( and guy mite have to "lower his AQstat temp " to keep from getting to hot! Look at this like you get to keep the heat and not pay .26 cents a KW to run the fans.. like me . 6. I made my own creosote destroyer by using all the MMDS sheets I could come up.... what seems.... the main ingredient is ag lime the kind u farmers use …and NOT the type the masons use …add 1/3 baking soda to 2 parts ag lime and mix I got my lime at a feed store and the baking soda at sams club …works great !!! I will ad more as I think of them , please feel free to add to the list …..well if you done it-and it worked anyway !
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / mods to my boiler
« on: December 22, 2014, 05:35:48 PM »
I installed a 24 volt indicator lite,(power comes from my 24v transformer that opens my "make up air " on a call for more heat/fans on, in my boiler building) I put it right next to my zone controls/uponor/taco .... that only turns on when the "blower" fans are on ! now I can tell when the fan comes on/off and if I time it-how long it takes to get up to temp from my shop 75" away> ! *** I had a "wood bridge" last nite and it saved me a trip at 5 below to see what the he!! was up / I guess it didn't save the trip but it let me know something was up !!! had a 146 temp in the supply line and 142 in the return....3 hours latter same chit!! wtf ....went out and found a 6" log "wood bridge" with about a gallon size pile of coal cooking the log ! (think teatertoder) the wood was black/charcoal but did not catch fire ...mean while the coal was like the sun ! it (the coal) kept me up to temp even with 270 cfm's of air blowing !
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / what gets your delat t rite ?
« on: December 07, 2014, 05:42:44 PM »
the floor supply water temp is 110 deg , my return at /near "stat" shut down is 18/21 ...was told it needs to be 10deg = a winner, Slab heat ....if I run the pump fast, the water loses less heat and the numbers tighten NOT ...I'm doing a bit of test rite now with pump on "speed 2" ...what do you know??
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / fire creep... help!
« on: November 19, 2014, 04:45:14 PM »
Fire creep …I have my boiler set for 170 /10 …trouble is the "heat creeps up " after shut down, and makes my boiler blow off ! ( always at 4 am in the morning when I fine it btw), LAST nite> outside temp at 5 pm was 27 degs and my "zones" had just finished called for heat and were closing. Weather was a wind of 9 ta 16 mph Boiler water, after all day was 140 with only a oilcan size of wood/coal left = GOOD! I load 1, 6" log and 3, 2" and a 4" dry azz spruce and a couple 2by construction stud cut off’s of 2by6/8 . I close the door a turn on the blower and the fire gets a ripping and 20 min latter I’m at 170 deg /boom off goes the AQ-s . then the creep starts/ slow …the stove and fire brick in this 1200lb monster holds the heat well …..all the lines are insulated and I get NO temp change in the 120’ 1 ¼ of line in the loop GF alpha is running 6 gpm with the no call for heat. So last nite, while we were a sleep, the wind stopped and the outside temp went to a toasty 37 . So am I’m building a fire to big?? I’m at a ¼ load…AQ--s is good ….there is no leaks of air etc…the heat from the 20 min run ….just crept up till boom…(210) and it only happens < once a week thus far. My thinking to fix this is to place a AQ-s on the supplyline coming out the top of said boiler "set on" something like 200 with a diff of 15 or 20 ,which would turn on/open a zone valve and dump the spare 15 of heat into a unini heater /something till it hits <185 deg then close OR how’s about setting my AQ-s @t 150 / 5 leaving room for 50+degs of creep < cheap 2 !!
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / boiler runs up / boil ...
« on: November 08, 2014, 11:19:53 AM »
my heat creeps up ...even with a little fire ....only thing I have not changed is the door gasket ,,, 170/10 and it holds all day with this little pile of wood .... aq-stat is fine (I have 2)
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / tell us> set boiler temp / differential / return temps / gf alpha pumps
« on: October 26, 2014, 11:03:34 AM »
I just fired my boiler for the 1st time ever on Friday moirn the "paperwork" said to set the boiler to 180 @ 18 psi and a 10 deg differential ...... why ?? I set it to 170 and then the 10 ...and the psi hangs at 20,( both the gauge that came with the boiler and my aximon boiler tender), thing is when the boiler shuts down after a call for heat the temp climbs to 175 and stays there... I've had to only add wood 1 time since Friday! 21 to 12 deg outside temps, heating a 4 zone slab in 1200 sqf shop (70degs in here is a bit much !) last call for heat in the shop was Saturday morning at 9am the again last nite at 2am I have two pumps both GF one regular 3 speed after my 4 way valve to run the zones and one the alpha that pumps from the boiler thru the 4way and back .... I put the alpha pump in auto-adap and it burms 43 watts and pumps 11 gpm ...with no call for heat ........... seems mighty high for a pump just pushing a loop with no calls for heat .... how to go about setting the "speeds" and what should I be looking for in return temps (of the water coming back into return ) I have my 4 way set to supply temps between 85 and 110 on a outdoor reset, my return boiler water at 140
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Electronics / 007 Variable Speed Delta-T, delta-t control
« on: October 17, 2014, 02:49:55 PM »
any of u guys have one ...i'm trying to learn how to setup...
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Electronics / help!>> relay wiring ?
« on: October 16, 2014, 09:55:51 AM »
been a while since I've had to wire up a boiler system here is a pic of what I want to do ...seems I need a relay to get her done..