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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: which brand for the money??

« on: October 10, 2012, 06:41:02 PM »

Dswogger your profile says you own a Burnrite mod 36. Are you trying to get away from that brand?

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Central Boiler / Re: Fall settings

« on: October 10, 2012, 06:24:26 PM »

Is your wood seasoned? Mine would go all day at factory settings but for some reason would go out over night. I relit it in the morning and would still be running when I came home from work. After 2 days of that I changed the settings and all ran well for 12 days then on the 13th day it went south.

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Central Boiler / Re: Fall settings

« on: October 09, 2012, 06:40:25 PM »

I was in the same situation as you John.  Mine was going out with the factory settings. I changed my pulse settings too, 15 min 50 sec of air was good til the firestar controller ( which has a glitch in it ) fried my primary solenoid. Now I'm waiting for a new controller and solenoid. The issue was when in idle the controller was still allowing 20 +- volts to hit the solenoid causing it to slowly heat up and eventually burn it out. I only had it running for two weeks. Its a brand new unit. Controller will be here in 3-4 days. Good thing it's not too cold yet.

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Plumbing / Re: Piping a Buderus radiant panel

« on: September 26, 2012, 07:13:24 PM »

Update:  I have my owb piped and it has been running for a week now. I ended up piping the radiant panel with a venturi on the supply and another on the return. It works great! Now I just need some cold weather to put everything to the test.

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Plumbing / Re: Piping a Buderus radiant panel

« on: September 06, 2012, 06:14:08 PM »

I like the idea of feeding the radiator straight through the run of a tee on the supply. I am bringing 1 inch pex into the house when I get to my mech. room I will add a 1 inch tee, the branch will feed my indoor boiler. Coming off the run of the tee I will reduce to 1/2 inch add a ball valve and feed the radiator. Water, pumped or gravity fed will take the path of least resistance. The radiator will take what little water it uses through a 1/2 inch line and the indoor boiler will get all the rest. Does this sound like it will work? Any comments welcome.

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Plumbing / Re: Piping a Buderus radiant panel

« on: September 05, 2012, 07:18:58 PM »

The radiator has a thermostatic head on it that controls the flow of water. That's the beauty of these radiators, I dont need a seperate pump, thermostat, and controls. So you think the single pipe setup will work? Have you used this setup? Which line would you use?

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Plumbing / Piping a Buderus radiant panel

« on: September 04, 2012, 08:27:14 PM »

I am installing a Buderus radiant panel in a finished room in the basement. Looking for the most efficient way of doing so. The heat guru at a local supply house told me to tee off the supply to feed the radiator and then tee into the return (2 pipe system). Another option is a single pipe system, either in the supply or return line I could tee off to feed the radiator then return out of the radiator back to the same line. I was told to add a ball valve between the tee's to throttle back flow and force water through radiator. These tee's will be coming off a 1 inch pex loop from a new OWB 100 ft. away with a taco 009 pushing the water. If anyone has a similar setup please comment I don't want to do the install and find out I won't be getting proper flow. Thanks Doug

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Plumbing / Re: Stainless hose clamps instead of crimp ring on pex

« on: August 24, 2012, 07:14:02 PM »

Today I bought the Sharkbite brand clamp cincher tool. Glad I bought it. Haven't used it yet, maybe this weekend I will tie in my boiler.

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Plumbing / Re: Stainless hose clamps instead of crimp ring on pex

« on: August 23, 2012, 06:30:11 PM »

Thanks for the offer RSI, but I think I am going to buy a crimping tool. Like Jack said I will use it again.

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Plumbing / Re: Stainless hose clamps instead of crimp ring on pex

« on: August 22, 2012, 08:39:57 PM »

Jack, I'm thinking that its not a good idea also. I thought I would put it out there and see what people thought. I have only used pex one time on a job and reallly don't know much about it. I will be purchasing a crimper for this weekend.

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Plumbing / Stainless hose clamps instead of crimp ring on pex

« on: August 22, 2012, 04:05:09 PM »

I am installing my owb and was contemplating using hose clamps instead of crimp rings. I have two reasons, first reason is I don't own a crimp tool and do not want to buy one to make 8 crimps. The second reason is if I need to remove the pex from the fitting for any reason I would have to remove and destroy the crimp ring. With hose clamps you just loosen it. Any thoughts. Thanks Doug

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Electronics / Re: Video Camera to monitor OWB temp.

« on: August 18, 2012, 07:07:46 AM »

Thanks Scott.

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Electronics / Video Camera to monitor OWB temp.

« on: August 17, 2012, 06:34:53 PM »

Does anyone use a security camera to keep an eye on their owb temp?  I would like to use a web based camera so I could view online with computer, and when away from home ( at work) I can check it with my iphone. I know very little about these electronics so if anyone is doing this I would appreciate any help you could give. Thanks

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: owb install!!!

« on: August 15, 2012, 06:13:42 PM »

I'm right there with you Powers. I have lines in ground,conduit in ground, pad poured, and tomorrow I will set the boiler. Next I will pull romex and connect everything outside. Then move inside and tie into existing boiler. I also will be installing a Buderus panel radiator to heat a finished room in my basement. Not sure how to post pics. First post.