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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: smoke roll out

« on: January 26, 2011, 12:26:24 PM »

Less of a load so there is not much left burning when you load?

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Need help- Circ pumps keep failing

« on: January 26, 2011, 12:24:23 PM »

Is it possible you are getting air in the system somewhere? 

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: going on vacation

« on: January 24, 2011, 05:28:50 AM »

I do lawn maint in summer, plow in the winter, and have an OWB.  I don't take Vacations!

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Best time of year to buy owb

« on: January 24, 2011, 05:25:50 AM »

I would consider this off time to buy an OWB .  I installed mine in December of 09 and that was not the time to be trying to do that. BBBRrrrrr.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: going on vacation

« on: January 22, 2011, 08:55:17 PM »

Well it should only heat the water when the furnace is running.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Best time of year to buy owb

« on: January 22, 2011, 08:52:37 PM »

Well they are mostly steel, so I would say steel temp dictates  price.  Plus there is a lot of innovation going on so older models may be cheaper.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Unsplit Wood Lengths - Heatmor

« on: January 19, 2011, 11:40:57 AM »

what can I say I have a Taylor 1000 and it smokes some during idle, it has always smoked and always will.

Yea..   I'm not trying to down your furnace but taylor stoves aren't as efficient as some of the other models.  In your particular instance, green wood may be better.  However the math of dry wood vs green isn't in your favor.  Willie can throw you some figures backed by fact that you loose about half the btu the wood has by burning it green.

 

Yea I am not saying that green wood would have more btu's just that it may last longer because it will burn slower.  My main point was that small pieces of dry wood will burn faster and would burn more at idle than big pieces.  That being said, Taylor stoves are more of a workhorse and do not have any fancy features.  Right now mine is over-sized because we still have 1 building not hooked up at this time.  We tend to collect our wood  over the summer to burn that winter and the volume is such that the drying process is not our biggest concern.  At this point in the winter  we have a lot of wood left but it is all rounds and logs.  We are currently building a splitter for the skid steer.  Who knows we might burn some seasoned wood next year.

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Plumbing / Re: should circulating pump be wired to run 24\7 or shut off and on?

« on: January 17, 2011, 06:58:39 AM »

Has anyone done the calculation to see what this cost to run pumps 24/7 ?  I can see how it would be beneficial for DHW but seams like a waste.  I am a cheap 8*5&tadr and get upset when the fire is out and the draft fan is out there just blowing cold air into the stove.  JMO.

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Plumbing / Re: Heating my domestic water

« on: January 17, 2011, 06:48:16 AM »

I don't know what a flat-plate cost but why couldn't you move your side arm to the HWH input and turn on the juice (electricity) .  My boiler has DHW coil and  can heat a lot of water but we leave the electric on to smooth out the cold spots or for emergencies.  The hot water heater kicked out once and we noticed a reduction in DHW probably due to being 75' from boiler.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Coal Experiment

« on: January 16, 2011, 10:19:37 PM »

I live in Illinois so we will be steelin coal soon!

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Coal Experiment

« on: January 16, 2011, 06:49:24 PM »

My grandfather told stories of heating his house with stolen coal.  I suppose things haven't changed that much.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Unsplit Wood Lengths - Heatmor

« on: January 16, 2011, 06:45:14 PM »

what can I say I have a Taylor 1000 and it smokes some during idle, it has always smoked and always will.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Need Help

« on: January 16, 2011, 11:08:44 AM »

You might be able to run a 1 1/4" from the stove and split it to 2-1" to feed the heat pumps.  The DHW would normally be 2-3/4 looped, if stove has DHW loop.  You could take the savings from your electric bill and try to tighten up the house.  I guess it would depend how far the stove is from the house.  I am thinking while I type here, but if you could come up with an electrical control that would only run one heat pump at a time , 2-1" lines would work.  This will also reduce the cost of pipe and pumps.  I think it would be fairly simple, you could wire it so the main floor would cycle normally and the upstairs would not cycle until the main floor had finished.  You would probably just need 1  or 2 servo valves . 

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: cheapest heat

« on: January 15, 2011, 04:23:50 PM »

I converted my moms old gas furnace to a water furnace.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: 1st Burn

« on: January 15, 2011, 10:06:29 AM »

Negatory scissorbill.  I have a Taylor.  Just my inexperience in fire management.  No issues now!