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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Unit heater vs coil in furnace and sq ft calculation
« on: July 03, 2018, 01:05:14 PM »
Going to install on line voltage thermostat Especially the one garage, where refrigerators don't like to work in the cold, we lost a lot of food last year because of that. I plan on keeping one garage at 50 degrees.
So would you guys put 100K in both or 100K in one and 50K in the one, the one with the 50K is the smaller garage on will be the one that keeps the parking area and dog warm!!
So would you guys put 100K in both or 100K in one and 50K in the one, the one with the 50K is the smaller garage on will be the one that keeps the parking area and dog warm!!
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Unit heater vs coil in furnace and sq ft calculation
« on: July 03, 2018, 10:21:52 AM »
I actually have a 2 part garage, both have 8ft ceilings and are full insulated. Both have 2 big garage doors, and 1 small door. One garage's big door opens in to the other section only. I'm going to look at installing two units. One for where we park our vehicles and where the dog sleeps. The other will be the workshop, it only needs to be heated in the evenings or during the weekends.
I have no clue on the old furnace as I pushed it just to place the heat exchanger in. Only reason I'm replacing is to more adequately heat the parking section of the garage. Right now I have to heat both section just for the parking section to be heated and it, burns a lot of wood doing that. I'm going to replace with individual unit heaters so I can zone it better.
One garage section is 30x48 the other is 30x36.
I was looking a just buying two 100k BTU ones but that might be over kill.
Thanks for the help
I have no clue on the old furnace as I pushed it just to place the heat exchanger in. Only reason I'm replacing is to more adequately heat the parking section of the garage. Right now I have to heat both section just for the parking section to be heated and it, burns a lot of wood doing that. I'm going to replace with individual unit heaters so I can zone it better.
One garage section is 30x48 the other is 30x36.
I was looking a just buying two 100k BTU ones but that might be over kill.
Thanks for the help
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Unit heater vs coil in furnace and sq ft calculation
« on: July 02, 2018, 09:58:06 PM »
Currently have a old furnance in the garage and it has a heat exchanger installed in it. Looking at getting rid of it and installing a hydronic unit heater. What’s your thoughts on both.
Also how do you size a unit heater? How many BTU per square ft
Also how do you size a unit heater? How many BTU per square ft
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Equipment / Re: The Atom Splitter screw type wood splitter
« on: February 01, 2014, 07:45:33 PM »
I've only had a couple stay connected and that was hedge wood. I would say 99% split cleanly
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Equipment / Re: The Atom Splitter screw type wood splitter
« on: January 11, 2014, 12:02:42 PM »
Okay so this is my second winter using this thing. Luckily I had the skidloader and post hole auger. We have split all sizes of logs from 8 footer to 16" length from 12" round up to a 36" hedge tree.. The trick is to keep the downward pressure or the torque will just cause the log to spin.
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Heatsource1 / Re: Earth Energy 190
« on: January 09, 2014, 08:01:13 PM »
CVRman thanks for your reply shows great customer service. I appreciate the advice to go some where else. If our family business told customers to do that, pretty sure we wouldn't have been in business for the past 50 years. And the comment about trading in wasn't my question that was your suggest to fix my problem. Don't worry have a supply house to get all my parts. Everyone else thanks for the replies, we have come up with a solution to get it thru the winter and will rectify it when it warms up this summer.
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Heatsource1 / Re: Earth Energy 190
« on: January 02, 2014, 03:46:00 PM »
I was measuring at the bottom of the stack where it exits the roof. I have not cleaned the heat exhangers yet. I just contacted the company about doing that today since they are bolted and silicone in. I'm guess that's probably where my problem will be found. I spent yesterday cleaning the ashes out in the -10 wind chill and that was enough for me. I'm going to have to unhook several water lines to remove the heat exchangers after speaking with someone today. Could possibly having the valves set wrong be the reason that it isn't transferring also? These stoves have a 1/2" pex line that goes from the top of the water jacket into the exchanger and exits at the bottom of the exchanger and recycles back into the return from the house. Think one of these might be adjusted incorrectly?
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Heatsource1 / Re: Earth Energy 190
« on: December 30, 2013, 07:18:01 PM »
yes its a downdraft gasser. It worked fine until this year. I guess I don't know what the secondary lighting is.
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Heatsource1 / Re: Earth Energy 190
« on: December 30, 2013, 04:30:21 PM »
Good stove that is working correctly has a stack temp of 99 degrees non working stove is 45 degrees
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Heatsource1 / Re: Earth Energy 190
« on: December 30, 2013, 03:54:35 PM »
Yes it is. Blowing just like the other stove which is the same model and both are set the same.
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Heatsource1 / Re: Earth Energy 190
« on: December 30, 2013, 03:38:09 PM »
Yes that's with all zones calling for heat. By unplugging the pumps which I did today it still took three hours to get from 123 degrees up to 160 where we have the stove at. We've used a fiber optics inspection camera and found no blockage in the system. I did the inspection way before I started asking questions. If I put the stove in the gasification mode that's when I get no heat. If I put in bypass mode which is like a normal stove I can get better heat but I'm burning losts of wood to maintain that heat. Where our other stove runs with no problem in gasification mode buring the same wood from the same pile. This is why I'm so confused.
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Heatsource1 / Re: Earth Energy 190
« on: December 30, 2013, 01:09:30 PM »
There is a 10 degree if between the lines. 143 out going and 134 incoming. No sizzling dried wood have burnt wood for 20 years never had a problem untilwe bought outdoor boilers and the pumps are nrf-36 not pl 36
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Heatsource1 / Re: Earth Energy 190
« on: December 30, 2013, 09:31:14 AM »
Okay so I've been babying this stove along since I last posted. Yesterday the high was 23 here. When I check the stove Saturday night the temp was 150. I put three 6 inch pieces and one 24" piece split in half. Yesterday morning the water temp was 92 degrees. There was still wood I the stove and it was burning. The highest the stove ever recovered to was 142 in a eight hour period with the pump running. If I unplug the pump it usually takes several hours to recover. Now I'm looking at two different possible problems. Could I have to big of pump or too small of one? Dads running a 3 speed pl36 pump. Or could it have something to do with the heat exchangers as we both have different ones? I'm lost
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Heatsource1 / Re: Earth Energy 190
« on: December 10, 2013, 07:21:28 AM »
What is the best way to measure the temps? Infared thermometer? I've measured before and usually don't have more than 2-3 degrees heat loss.