Everything Drolet Tundra - Heatmax...

I emailed them earlier I'm doubting that they will do a swap arnt the tundras more money

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Alright another question probably a dumb one... But is this price of steel part of the firebox? Meaning should the stove be ran at all with that crack present.

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Ok well that makes my day a little less crappy. Thanx now just curious as to what they will come up with

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All broken in now! Secondaries a blazing.

Looks good can't wait to get mine running correctly.

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Just figured out why my ducts were overheating on high fire and the fan seemed less than impressive. I guess it should be noted to not use a very restrictive filter in these things. I was running a pretty standard furnace filter. Took it out to see man what a difference. Lower duct temps right away with way more air flow. I'm just gonna throw a bottom of the line filter in as I have filter media on my cold air returns

I'll take that advice lol iv been running alergy filters on mine last year

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Only thing I still need to do is get the 45s to change my outlets to side to side.

How are your heat runs tired into the system. I ask because I'm trying to design my hvac

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I have a 12 round takeoff on the return upstream of my primary furnace and have the two 8" into the top of the plenum of the primary furnace with backdraft dampers. I run a piece of plywood in place of my primary furnace filter to stop the air from looping. I need to get a backdraft damper for the return side to eliminate that still. I will take detailed pics and post or if u go to my other thread "this is where I wage war" you can see how my hotblast was hooked up and it's primarily the same.

Sounds pretty straight forward I'll check out the pics thank you.

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The most basic diagram I can find but basically how everything is routed. It's a pretty crude diagram!

brenndatomu said:

The filter that comes with it works well, it is a cheap fabric filter (looks like a thin/cheap allergen filter) if you use one of those really cheap fiberglass filters I think you'll be disappointed...static pressure goes too low and duct temps drop too far to heat the house...the air has to go through the furnace slow enough top pick up the heat (contact time)
Cheap and easy enough to try though...'cause YMMV...

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I have a two story house problem is with a good filter it's going too slow and overheating the ducts. It's actually working perfect right now with no filter.

Ducts are nice and warm with excellent airflow! I think everyone's hvac situation is a little different. No two are the same lol

jb6l6gc said:

Only thing I still need to do is get the 45s to change my outlets to side to side.

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Is that an 8 inch flue with no BD?

STIHLY DAN said:

Is that an 8 inch flue with no BD?

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I don't understand what your asking. My stove pipe and flue are 6". My ducts are 8" with backdraft dampers if that's what your asking

jb6l6gc said:

Just figured out why my ducts were overheating on high fire and the fan seemed less than impressive. I guess it should be noted to not use a very restrictive filter in these things.

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In hindsignt, when I ran my return ducting, I wish I would have ditched the stock 15x20 filter, and used a bigger filter (say, 20x25). The current 15x20 works fine and I get enough airflow, but the bigger filter would have let me use blower speed 1 to get enough airflow, but with less electricity. Especially with a var speed blower slower than speed 1, every bit of reduced filter and duct restriction is reduced electricity and expense. I ran some numbers and figured I could have saved an extra $10-$20 per year with that bigger filter. Won't break the bank, but enough that I would have done it differently.

Happy fall folks,
Question for you. I am sure this has been asked/discused b4. How are you opening the damper for coal stage? I would like to have some type of setup to open damper anytime the stack surface temp falls below 150 degrees. What say you wise wood burners?

Builderml said:

Happy fall folks,
Question for you. I am sure this has been asked/discused b4. How are you opening the damper for coal stage? I would like to have some type of setup to open damper anytime the stack surface temp falls below 150 degrees. What say you wise wood burners?

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I did something similar with a snap disc on the furnace flue collar. I put pictures and a diagram somewhere back in early 2016 I think, not sure what page. We need a table of contents for this thread.

I picked up a Tundra from Menards last weekend. Price was 1407 out the door but they have the stove on clearance and some rebates and with the current 11% rebate you end up getting it for about 950. Cant wait to get this thing hooked up as I have been using an old buck stove 2700 to supplement heat in an open floor plan home.

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I picked up a Tundra from Menards last weekend. Price was 1407 out the door but they have the stove on clearance and some rebates and with the current 11% rebate you end up getting it for about 950. Cant wait to get this thing hooked up as I have been using an old buck stove 2700 to supplement heat in an open floor plan home.

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ohio eh? you a browns fan at all I am. Man they suck I share season tix