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Heatmor / Re: heatmore effiency

« on: December 08, 2013, 07:12:15 AM »

My heatmor 200cs. Runs better with age!  I'm into my 7th season.  I think this is more due to experience. I recently met with a heatmor dealer at a farm show in Syracuse. He gave me some great tips and corrected a lot Of the errors I was making. In short , I was packing too much wood into the unit.  Now I burn less, sooo much less wood.   It is important to clean out with auger once a week.  It's really no big deal, just do it an dump the ash around trees or in your garden. This year I completely turned off my oil fired furnace too,  essentially in spite of reducing the temperature start degrees on the oil furnace , it still fired when there was a call to replenish hot water. I'm not wasting oil, or paying for oil I really don't need.   And the heatmor replenishes the hot water tank just fine.  I expect to heat my home and hot water on 6 cords of wood.  Six kids and a 3500sf home. Not bad.  If it gets real cold I will tick up the aqua stat to 190 until the colder weather subsides.    In short,  this is a great and simple unit.   

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Heatmor / heatmor 200CS

« on: August 09, 2009, 03:37:00 PM »

I live in Central Mass and have been operating a heatmor 200cs for two years now.....I do heat a 18x36 in ground pool with it too...., but have been disappointed with the feature......it takes a cord of wood a week to bring the pool up to 88 f  .....the heatmor rarely stops  cycling on consequentially depletes the domestic hot water to only warm water.....it is not a very good option.   

I use 7-8 cords per season to heat my home area of 2500sf, and usually need to fill the box 2-3 times a day.   It's a routine.