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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: What is your heat loss from OWB?

« on: March 27, 2016, 11:58:19 AM »

Well trying to measure temps with a heat gun is a flop it varies quite a bit from copper or pex.   When I tried measure pretty much show the input is equal to the output.  I'm assuming I will have to add gauges to figure out my problem. I do not have a mixing valve on my water heater so it couldn't be sending it back out.  And as far as my baseboard heat I have all hardwood floors with no carpet so that isn't sucking the heat out either.  As far as my different zones in the house my zone valve seized so I just put them on loop so they are all on one.  I have asked the dealer who sold it to me and he was clueless.  Also inquired with heating and cooling guys and everyone wants to stay away from OWB setups in my area.  And yes I did get all the Insul-Seal piping together properly which was very cumbersome hard to pull the pex pipe through when you have 45% angles in the line.  Also 180 Degree's is all the hotter a heatmor aquastat goes.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: What is your heat loss from OWB?

« on: February 15, 2016, 09:42:34 PM »

My insulated pipe name is Insul-Seal 4 inch pipe with R-value 15 they advertise that loose 3 degree on a run between 80-100ft.  The pex tubing inside my insulated pipe is 1inch   My heat exchanger is a 80 Plate Water to Water Brazed Plate Heat Exchanger.  I do have a side arm on my water heater that the return water goes through.  Pump is a Grundfos UPS26-99FC which is a 1/6HP and 0-33GPM of flow.  I'd add pictures of my set-up but they must be to large haven't figured out how to do it yet.   And now I took my heat gun out to recheck all my readings and that doesn't work either!  So I will have to wait to give you all accurate readings.  But this will give you start on what i'm running.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: What is your heat loss from OWB?

« on: February 15, 2016, 11:35:33 AM »

Time to answer the easiest question first yes 50/50 anti-freeze incase I leave can shut it down and not worry about it freezing it's not easy to find people who want to feed the beast when it's cold out.  If I'm gone.  I will load pictures of my set-up when I get home from work and that will answer most the other questions thanks for the responses!

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Where the heck do ya live

« on: February 14, 2016, 03:15:30 PM »

southern mn

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / What is your heat loss from OWB?

« on: February 14, 2016, 03:06:41 PM »

I've been burning wood for around 3 years and haven't been overly impressed with the heat loss issue.  It's been difficult to keep the house warm.  I have my aquastat set to 180 with 10 degree difference and I've checked it with a heat gun and it's spot on. But after it goes through my water to water heat exchanger it only is 140 at my indoor boiler temp.  (I have baseboard heat)  I can never get it above 140.  Which it does heat my hot water as well but we run out of hot water often as well.  I'm only 50ft from house but I do have the OWB a 50/50 ratio of anti-freeze.  So I'm not sure it something is plumbed up wrong or what, guess i'm just curious if that's a normal heat loss.  Also all the plumbing from wood burner is insulated.  Any advice would be great thanks!