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[gmviso]

Was thinking that is what you meant, but how do you monitor that statistic?

[Ridgekid]

Every time sensor 3 falls below setpoint it pushes a email!!!

Btw. Email pushes do not work on ssl servers. I got a free non ssl email address at gmx.com just for my temp monitor.

[Ridgekid]

Scott-

Don't be so defensive. I'm a noobie! If you, or Willie or Yoder say it's not as efficient as 60% who am I to argue?? I don't know how to express my tone in writing here. I just want to let you know I am enjoying this. I am not intending to frustrate anyone. I just want to UNDERSTAND what my OWB is doing.

I am, and will, continue to count my wood until the last fire in the spring. Then I can tally it all up. We might not be any closer on figuring how many btu's I generated to how many were used, but I'll know how much wood I used, what the avg temp of the day was and how much electric I saved. OH, and as of Nov 22nd I'll know how many times I went into a burn cycle. Most people on here probably just throw wood in their OWB and forget it. I want to learn from mine. So when there is a problem I can say without a doubt how it ran before the "problem" occurred.

Thanks for your inputs!!

[willieG]

ridge, i cant say for sure how efficent these things are  i only report on what i read. It is (ibelieve) likley close to 60 or less as (if it is true) that gassers  burn 25 to 30 percent less wood than our old styles and they claim to be 85 to 90 percent efficient?


for my own place here in ontario it is said an average home here should normally use about 100,000,000 btu per season
i burnt last year about (not true measurments but figuring what my trailer holds) 12 cords. this equates (according to charts off the net) a usable btu count of 163,800,000 btu and 60% of that number is very close to 98,000,000

and i also heat my domestic water so perhaps my home is a little better than average or (i do live in the southern part of ontario) my location puts me in the low end of btu users?

i know its not a true and good measurment of my stove but it likley is in the ball park?

[Scott7m]

Ridge, I'm not really being defensive buddy..    I just type as I think and never realize how it sounds til I read it back to myself.  haha

[Scott7m]

Yea willie according to what your saying the math adds up... 

[Ridgekid]

We are cooking now!

Yesterday we had a Avg temp of 34.7*, added 10 pieces of wood and had 12 burns. Got a little snow too!

Burn baby burn! 

[Scott7m]

34.7..  Ridge just wait til the daily avg is 14.7 and the wind is whistling!  It's crazy how much wood consumption goes up when it gets down in single digits!  You'll still love every second of it cause you'll be as snug as a bug in a rug and the meter won't be spinning any faster lol

[Ridgekid]

We'll dip pretty low at night around here, don't recall a daily average that low since 1994. (*knock on wood*)

And yes. The meter is moving pretty slow. We received some digital meters earlier this year so I can't watch the disc fly anymore. I did purchase a Black and Decker monitor that "looks" at the optical eye and transmits it's current use INSIDE the house.

I'm getting lazy huh?

[Scott7m]

94, my dad has that written on the calendar.  -17 , -37 , -23..   3 nights in a row!  It was crazy, I was taking buckets of water out of our garage and pouring it out on stuff to just watch it freeze! 

What kinda lows do you see in the winter ridge?  Every year we usually have 6-8 nights below zero.  It's usually 10 degrees colder in my area vs being in a city only 30 miles away.

[Ridgekid]

This is pretty close. Being in the mountains 15 miles west of Homer City we can run about 5* less in temps and x2 on the snowfall.

http://pics2.city-data.com/w1q/lhaq22689.png

http://pics2.city-data.com/w5q/snwq22689.png

BTW- I missed that winter of 94' I was in Indonesia banging on the thermostat trying to get the AC unit to kick on!!

[martyinmi]

I clicked on to your pictures and it says 403 forbidden.

[Ridgekid]

Try this instead:

http://www.homefacts.com/weather/Pennsylvania/Indiana-County/Homer-City.html

[Ridgekid]

The green dragon got her first real test at 16*. At 9pm I put 8 pieces of wood in her. There were a few pieces left from the day. At 9am this morning I saw her come on but not smoking. Oh oh we must of ran out of wood. So I threw on some clothes and head out. Open the door and there is a raging fire with at least four pieces left!!!

So I checked my email alerts and found out she burned 7x since midnight. 8x since the stocking last night at 9pm.

Overall I couldn't be happier!!!

[pwdiver]

I dont want to sound stupid but how do you all know how many burn cycles you have on your boiler mine is a CB5036