Has anyone here installed a hot water coil in a NC30? I am thinking of adding one to my stove but wanted to to hear from this who have done it. I am also thinking that I could install it on the back of the stove attached to the heat shield and not in the fire box, any thoughts. Also from those that have done this how does it affect the heat output of the stove and how much hot water does the stove make. Thanks.
Hot Water Coil for NC30
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SmokeyCity
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eman5oh said:
You could not extract enough heat unless you ran the pipe into the box - or - had some kind of a heat ex changer fin thing but then it gets way too complicated for what you could get from it.
It thought of it too and after exploring all the possibilities concluded it is more trouble that its worth.
the 30 just isnt the stove for heating water.
Dune
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Steve at Vermont Elm did one for a guy in the Elm. I didn't study the install but the info is on youtube and his site. Can't comment at all about viability or pitfalls of doing this.
Hoping to hear from some one that has done it. I have seen the ones that go inside of the stove, and the questions that come to mind are how hot does the water get when the stove is at 650 or so, does it cool the fire box? i don't want to go putting holes in my stove only to find it does not work well. That is one of the reasond that I was thinking of adding to heat shield, between the stove and the heat shield I am measuring around 280 degrees with the stove at 650. Seems to me this would heat water, I realize that due to the cooler temp i will need more pipe a a radiator style heat exchanger to get the heat. Like I said I was hoping to learn from someone that has traveled this path before and not make the same mistakes or replicate a good working setup.
Dune
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