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All-Purpose OWF Discussions => General Outdoor Furnace Discussion => Topic started by: coolidge on January 05, 2015, 01:20:17 PM
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Am thinking my strategy for loading might be out the window with this cold snap coming.
Was 34 when i left for work and 13 when i got home.
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Make that -16*F in WI.
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Am thinking my strategy for loading might be out the window with this cold snap coming.
Was 34 when i left for work and 13 when i got home.
It was 3*F this am and 8*F when I got home.
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You guys should post the state you live in its 12 + here in nj
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Am thinking my strategy for loading might be out the window with this cold snap coming.
Was 34 when i left for work and 13 when i got home.
It was 3*F this am and 8*F when I got home.
He's from Michigan too.
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I had -20 last night in central Wisconsin brrr
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I went back to my old way. The new way absolutely DID NOT work.
I tried loading in the morning and have the wife and or teen check it during the day when the wind is high. I should have said check it and load more in it when you check it. I have come home 5 or 6 times and temp was down around 120 or 130 and should be at 180 -190.
Old way is load the crap out if in the morning and hope I get home in time to refill before it gets too low. Is it strange I think college is making the kid dumber than ever?
God, please have mercy on us as this new generation takes over. May you bless me with the knowledge to create an app to remind the moron to put wood IN the owb and accept that THIS is what keeps the house warm. Forgive my unending cussing at how lazy and stupid these kids are now. Amen.
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I went back to my old way. The new way absolutely DID NOT work.
I tried loading in the morning and have the wife and or teen check it during the day when the wind is high. I should have said check it and load more in it when you check it. I have come home 5 or 6 times and temp was down around 120 or 130 and should be at 180 -190.
Old way is load the crap out if in the morning and hope I get home in time to refill before it gets too low.
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We got -30 c. here in Central N.Ontario.
I'm using more wood now in the 4400, but a heaping wheelbarrow lasts 14 hours, easy.
If I want it to go longer I just put in a few more sticks.
And I could never get my kids to do a good job at anything either.
Ends up, like they say, if you want the job done right ya gotta ..............
You don't say the kind of wood your using .??
Gotta be all hardwood in the dead of winter.
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KK
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:post: Thank you Oldchenowth for making me laugh out loud. Just came in from breaking ice for the cows - it is minus 18 wind chill here in southern Indiana.
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:post: Thank you Oldchenowth for making me laugh out loud. Just came in from breaking ice for the cows - it is minus 18 wind chill here in southern Indiana.
Whoa there fellah!.... don't say that or you will upset atvaalaska! LOLOLOL! j/k He just hates wind chill talk.... ::) (http://maxima.org/forums/images/smilies/thSmily-LMAO-Oops.gif)
(reference: http://outdoorwoodfurnaceinfo.com/forum/index.php?topic=7066.0 (http://outdoorwoodfurnaceinfo.com/forum/index.php?topic=7066.0) )
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:post: Was thinking the same thing Sloppy.
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I guess the cold front is coming through, 330 it is 10 above, wind is picking up now.
Supposed to walk the property tomorrow with a forester, might be "chilly"
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:post: Thank you Oldchenowth for making me laugh out loud. Just came in from breaking ice for the cows - it is minus 18 wind chill here in southern Indiana.
Whoa there fellah!.... don't say that or you will upset atvaalaska! LOLOLOL! j/k He just hates wind chill talk.... ::) (http://maxima.org/forums/images/smilies/thSmily-LMAO-Oops.gif)
(reference: http://outdoorwoodfurnaceinfo.com/forum/index.php?topic=7066.0 (http://outdoorwoodfurnaceinfo.com/forum/index.php?topic=7066.0) )
CALL OUT THREAD.....besides the cows water ...HAD ....water in it !!! my theory holds true! :thumbup:
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CALL OUT THREAD.....besides the cows water ...HAD ....water in it !!! my theory holds true! :thumbup:
Just messin with ya! ;) :thumbup:
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OK - OK just real numbers from now on - just checked on cows/calves and loaded the furnace - looked at our temp gauge on the barn - minus 6 degrees - freaking cold however you look at it but toasty warm in my log home built from logs off our farm!!! Stay warm everyone...............Vincent Paul Meyers
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Old way is load the crap out if in the morning and hope I get home in time to refill before it gets too low. Is it strange I think college is making the kid dumber than ever?
God, please have mercy on us as this new generation takes over. May you bless me with the knowledge to create an app to remind the moron to put wood IN the owb and accept that THIS is what keeps the house warm. Forgive my unending cussing at how lazy and stupid these kids are now. Amen.
Oh thats the whole point of college these days, dumb em down and turn em into good little sheeple. Some of the dumbest people I know have some pretty impressive college degrees.
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-8 here sussex county Nj at 5am
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Got one I college, wife went too, and I am keeping them WARM with my dumb firewood. No Bi$&hing in the winter months.
Minus 13 in central Maine
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-13 when I went to load this morning at 6 am because the water temp had dropped to 160. I loaded at 10pm last night full. Big coal bed in the bottom but it wasn't keeping up with the run times on the indoor furnace. Right now we are at -2 and I have the house at 68 degrees. Fan on the furnace is running for 10 minutes and shutting off for only 6! With a 180k btu water to air hx I think that I am using somewhere around a whopping 120k BTUs an hour! Holy smokes.
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If your heat exchanger is rated for 180k I highly doubt you are getting that out of it most of them are rated at 12-15 gpm and pushing 1800 cfm. I just installed an 80k btu brand new ecm motor furnace that has a max cfm rating of 1555 cfm on high speed.
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Ultimately you are right. The Coil is rated at 200,000 btu @2700 cfm @ 23 gpm. I have dual 1 inch pex lines running to the coil and back to the boiler. I am running a Bell and Gossett NRF36 on speed 2. Run is 100 feet each way. I think that I am moving somewhere in the range of 15 gpm. My furnace blower is running somewhere in the range of 1200-1400 cfm I believe. So ultimately it would probably be more realistic to say that I am looking at likely 120-140k btu. Even at that output I am still eating up 80k-100k btu an hour.
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That sounds about right especially if it was -13 outside. That's cold for anyone! I know my blower on my furnace was coming on more than usual to when it was -17 here but I also have radiant floor in the basement that radiates heat upstairs.
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I wish they would rate these coils at more realistic numbers when it comes to cfm because I don't know of any residential furnaces that move 2700cfm :o
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This is the chart that I have always used http://www.heatexchangersonline.com/airtowater.htm (http://www.heatexchangersonline.com/airtowater.htm)
Seems pretty well done but I don't know why they have such high cfm though either.