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Shaver Furnace / Re: End of season

« on: April 19, 2012, 07:00:18 AM »

I'm wondering if I should drain the lines to exchanger, or drain the whole system reapply water treatment and periodically circulate the water? 

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Shaver Furnace / End of season

« on: April 12, 2012, 08:35:38 PM »

I have the 165,  with hot water, and heat exchanger in air duct.

 What I'm wondering is what does everyone do to shut down for the warm seasons.

 Clean out all ashes, re-do seals on doors, drain WHAT??? thanks I really enjoyed my low heat bills last winter and want to do all maintenance to make it last. 

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Shaver Furnace / Re: Pump not running now

« on: September 07, 2011, 07:31:29 PM »

I did the return water test and have 10 gallons a minute of flow,  I will do an amperage reading on it soon to see what the current draw is.  In the mean time my fingers are crossed.

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Shaver Furnace / Re: Pump not running now

« on: September 07, 2011, 06:52:15 AM »

Went down after my coffee, and it was on,  it is so quiet I must have not been awake enough first thing, or it my have been off.  I'll keep a eye on it.   

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Shaver Furnace / Re: Pump not running now

« on: September 07, 2011, 06:22:43 AM »

Pump ran for about 20 hrs(I say 20 hrs but I was asleep 6 of them).   Pump was pumping water, had good heat out of my vents before bedtime. I don't see what could have caused the pump to fail...

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Shaver Furnace / Pump not running now

« on: September 07, 2011, 06:17:00 AM »

Well just as I thought,   I went out to look over the furnace this morning and noticed the circulating pump was not running.   I thought it was getting too hot to touch.  It is a taco 0011, which was recommended by salesman.  My setup is stove a couple feet lower than basement floor, pipe under ground 20" then up a wall 8' over 8' and back down 2 1/2- 3' to exchanger.   I have a 90 out of stove, the pump,!" plex connector strait , 75 ' of 1" pex to a valve, and a 90 degree connector,  exchanger16 x 18", 90degree shark bite 90, valve, return pec pipe, back to valve at boiler. 

Could I have just got a bad pump, or wrong pump, or flawed design that I mentioned above.?

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Electronics / Re: Connecting to air handler to control flow pump

« on: September 06, 2011, 11:40:12 AM »

Yep 105 as I had just started up the fire,   But yes the pump was hotter than the water.

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Electronics / Re: Connecting to air handler to control flow pump

« on: September 06, 2011, 06:41:15 AM »

I pulsed the lines by opening and closing valves and i have good heat out of heater ducts, I have to say I think it is purged of all air..

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Electronics / Re: Connecting to air handler to control flow pump

« on: September 05, 2011, 04:05:59 PM »

boiler on running 105 degrees at the time, the motor was hot to the point that you wouldnot want to hold your hand on it if it were much  hotter

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Electronics / Re: Connecting to air handler to control flow pump

« on: September 05, 2011, 03:58:04 PM »

what are you using to heat your DHW?

I never wire one to have the pump kick on and off, with quality line you dont lose enough heat to worry about.

So your circ pumps run 24/7 for the heat exchanger?  I have another pump and set of lines for the DHW,  that have the coils at the stove and tie into the wh.

Yea..  pump runs 24/7.  Your way will work fine, it's kinda an old school set up like hardy has, but it will work, its just more complicated and more to go wrong.

Scott the tasco 011 pump is pretty hot to touch, on the top cooling fins, does this pump normally run hot to touch???

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Shaver Furnace / Re: My 165 is in route...

« on: September 05, 2011, 03:52:28 PM »

Test fired the stove today, got water up to 103 degrees and temp coming out of house ducts was 100, that seems like good transfer...But the circulating pump seemed to be hot, taco011 was hot to touch on the motor housing fins. DOES anyone know if it is normal for the pump to be almost to hot to hold your hand on, on  the top cooling fin??

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Electronics / Re: Connecting to air handler to control flow pump

« on: September 05, 2011, 05:38:56 AM »

what are you using to heat your DHW?

I never wire one to have the pump kick on and off, with quality line you dont lose enough heat to worry about.

So your circ pumps run 24/7 for the heat exchanger?  I have another pump and set of lines for the DHW,  that have the coils at the stove and tie into the wh.

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Shaver Furnace / Re: My 165 is in route...

« on: September 04, 2011, 05:00:16 PM »

Completed water heater wiring, just need to plug it in.  All that's left is the relay to tie in the circulation pump, and I need to pickup a 2 wire wall thermostat.   What is the thermostat of choice for the wall inside?  bi metal, mercury, or some digital?
rry

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Electronics / Connecting to air handler to control flow pump

« on: September 04, 2011, 02:19:08 PM »

Ok, here's the deal,   I went to hook my shaver stove circulating pump off of the air handler central unit blower fan, to make the pump at the stove come on when the blower  kicks on.  BUT my central unit has no neutral connection going to it, so with my pump 120v one leg to neut. ant the other to a blower lead off the relay I always have 120v, my guess is that since one side of the blower is going to a constant hot and the other is off the relay, I'm getting 120 feed thru the motor from the constant side. question is this.  What is the best way to get my 120v for the pump at the furnace.  I need a way to provide a trigger.   Could I get a 220 relay put it across the 220 fan leads and use a different  120v source thru that relay.  I think I just answered my own question.    

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Shaver Furnace / Question

« on: September 03, 2011, 09:20:11 PM »

Now that I have my exchanger plumbed I have a question.

  My exchanger is at about 6 1/2' off the basement floor and the furnace is about a foot or so lower than the basement floor.

 Question will the water STAY in the exchange when the circ pump shuts off, or will it seek level and drain back to the tank water level?

If it seeks tank level it may change the tank level,  will I have to run my pump continuously, or just try and see.