maple1
Minister of Fire
Maple, If you have no controls at all, how do you control the draft if it is very windy?
Standard barometric damper. So if you consider that a control per se, well, it is controlled then.
Maple, If you have no controls at all, how do you control the draft if it is very windy?
Interested in your 'home Made' storage. Is it in ground or in a purpose built boiler shed? Basement? Just curious. And did your really get a 24-48 hour turn over on one burn this past winter? That would be amazing! What part of Michigan are you in? I'm in the northern lower and am interested in your setup.I love my Tarm. I'm surprised how much heat it puts out. I wouldn't run a Gasser without storage though. I have ~1600 gallons unpressurized and I make a fire every other day for the most part. Pretty much two firebox-fulls will get me to the next fire. Right now my system isn't built right, so my storage is going from about 120 to 165, sometimes if I don't mind it idling I can load it up and get it to 180.
I like the idea of using something in ground like that. How thick is your spray foam on the tank? Seems like it would need to be plenty thick to avoid heat loss. Do I assume there isn't any snow melt above the tank? Also, what type of home do you have? Just trying to compare, my home is an old, moderately insulated two story farm house with forced air.I'm in Cadillac. My storage is a repurposed fuel tank that was dug out of the ground. The end was cut off for scrap reasons, but we welded one back on. We put what is essentially a extended man hole cover into it to make sure we can get as much water in there as we can. Insulated it with a closed cell spray on foam. The foam gets a hard shell. We buried that outside the basement wall. There are three coils inside the tank (soon to be 4 hopefully). 2 of the coils are in parallel inside the tank, those are the heating coils, and then there is a domestic coil. Everything is plumbed to Tarm's diagram stss-2 I think it is. I'll see if I can find that diagram. And maybe I'll see if I can find some pictures to load.
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