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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Anyone have all electric and OWB?

« on: January 20, 2012, 08:32:03 PM »

My house is all electric. It is about 6000 square feet. I have 3 heat pumps with srtipe backup heat. Our bill in the past have been running around 750-900 a month in the winter and keeping the house at 70. I installed my stove on Jan.5 and have been keeping up with the electric usage on a daily bases. i am only using about 60 or less kilowatts a day so that would be 1800 in a month so that breaks down to 158.00 a month. That is keeping the house at 74  nice and toasty with an endless amount of hot water. Here in Kentucky I would say about 4 months of winter. So it will pay for it self in 2.5 years. We are cutting our own wood. Hope this helps you.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Usage?

« on: January 19, 2012, 03:41:27 AM »

Before the OWB we was keeping the house set at 70 and very cold and the heat pumps and heat stripes running like a bunch of wild dogs. We pay a budget payment of 475 to 520 every month before I installed the stove. I know that I am now down to only spending about 200 at the highest for the total bill. I am keeping a daily track of usage. That is keeping the house set at 74 now and man that makes a difference. Now i can seat down and watch sone tv without having to get down in my snuggie to keep warm. That was a joke!!! I really appreciate all for the comments just seeing how good the stove is doing.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Usage?

« on: January 17, 2012, 09:00:05 PM »

My house is about 6000 square feet. We used to keep the temp. at 70 and was still little cold while using about 7000 kilowatts in the winter on a good month and when it got really cold out could be well over 9000 so I am happy so far with I see but like everything I am guessing that I can do better. Also my stove is using what I would think is a low average of wood and we are only checking it 2 a day. Have the temp. set at 160 and it is keeping up fine. If you guys know of anything that I could do it would be appreciated very much and thanks for helping.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Usage?

« on: January 17, 2012, 11:33:55 AM »

Was wonder what is the daily usage of electric? I have put in a stove and was wondering where I stand with the usage that I am keeping up with. I am using about 60 kilowatts in 24 hours.

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HeatMaster / Re: Electric Usage

« on: January 17, 2012, 11:11:04 AM »

I guess I still have some to work on. Just wonder how much square footage do you have. I have around 6000 that we ate heating.

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HeatMaster / Electric Usage

« on: January 16, 2012, 08:36:31 PM »

Just wondering if anybody keeps up with how much they are using a daily bases. Since I have put in the Stove we are using about 60 kilowatts a day. Just wondering if that is high or low.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: How cold did you have this morning?

« on: January 15, 2012, 07:20:42 AM »

Here in Kentucky down to 10 with a 5 mph wind, but a nice toasty 74 inside

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HeatMaster / Re: My Stove

« on: January 12, 2012, 08:45:28 PM »

Thanks a lot for helping Scott. I now have some else to ask on my temp. control panel is shows my heat strips coming on. Can't be having that. I went in the basement a put a turkey fryer temp guage on the pipe coming in and it is reading 160. so was is this happening? Man i am sorry to bug you guys just trying to get this worked out. And the door did get tighter.

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HeatMaster / Re: My Stove

« on: January 12, 2012, 03:18:32 PM »

I did adjust the door but I couldn't tell that the stops moved much at all. I also checked the fan and didn't notice anything blocking it from being level but I did see some smoke coming from the bottom of the fan. Is that normal?I

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HeatMaster / Re: My Stove

« on: January 12, 2012, 07:19:29 AM »

Thanks a lot Scott when I get off work today I will check the fan and adjust all the doors. I juat worried I am doing something wrong cause the stove I went and looked at he wasn't getting very little smoke and mine looked like Thomas the train!!!

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HeatMaster / Re: My Stove

« on: January 11, 2012, 07:22:38 PM »

So i should tighten everything up? man i just got the thing last thursday and already have to do this i thought it would be a while. so put a bead of silcone around the plate that seats over the fan.

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HeatMaster / Re: My Stove

« on: January 11, 2012, 05:10:32 PM »

The wood is seasoned. It is like it seats there just smoking. Now i have had a little boiling over.

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HeatMaster / Re: My Stove

« on: January 11, 2012, 12:17:49 PM »

Need to ask about smoke. I put our furnace about 100 foot from the house. I am having a terrible time with the smoke pushing back and coming towards the house and you can smell it all the time. How tall of a stack can i put on it so that it will go away from the house?

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HeatMaster / Re: My Stove

« on: January 07, 2012, 08:49:26 PM »

Thanks a lot for the comments. Now i need some help getting a log splitter. Which one is the best buy? I have been lucky to find a guy that is selling me loads of wood really cheap but i am sure that he will run out soon. I have enough wood to last a month i think. I also have a guy that will bring logs to my house and all I have to do is cut and split so let me know what is the best dollar value?

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HeatMaster / Re: My Stove

« on: January 07, 2012, 09:08:06 AM »

Ok here are a couple pictures of the stove and the pad. I plan on cover the front part of the pad up so when we stack wood up there it will be out of the weather. http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p72/runthemdogs/stove1.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p72/runthemdogs/stove2.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p72/runthemdogs/stove3.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p72/runthemdogs/yard.jpg
Plan on heating the pool this spring.