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    Maxim M250 Not Providing Enough Heat

    I agree with everyone else here - you should get the installer back and have him fix it. A unit that size should make ample heat for even a *large*...
    Post by: danjayh, Jan 9, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Let's see your combustion chambers!

    I'll finally stop being lazy and post mine. It's not as clean as some of you keep yours, but I hate cleaning it, and it's been idling periodically...
    Post by: danjayh, Dec 11, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Boiler Stop Leak solutions

    The stuff I bought was called "Base Hit II", got it at Menards. They had a couple of different options. I can't give you a report on it, though,...
    Post by: danjayh, Nov 26, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Empyre elite owb

    Hi willyswagon, My dad has been looking at wood boilers lately, but he doesn't have a lot of room for storage indoors - maybe a 100 gallon...
    Post by: danjayh, Nov 15, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Bought a Wood Boiler. Help with plumbing diagram & control schematics?

    I got my snap discs from Senasys. They have a wide variety of options with various mounts with almost any temperature option you could need. I...
    Post by: danjayh, Nov 14, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  6. danjayh
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    Bought a Wood Boiler. Help with plumbing diagram & control schematics?

    If you want something that's even cheaper than the aquastat, get a strap-on snap disk that breaks on temp rise and put it on a pipe somewhere....
    Post by: danjayh, Nov 14, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Maxim burn chamber full of tar after just 4 days

    HI SmokeEater! Thanks for the reply. A couple of questions about your harman - when it idles, does it continue to feed wood and give the...
    Post by: danjayh, Nov 14, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Let's see your combustion chambers!

    Turns out it was an easy fix, just a loose sensor allowing a small leak. Probably trauma from moving it (I got it second hand). The guy I got...
    Post by: danjayh, Nov 14, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Attack 45 profi chimney problems

    I think that's how we all got into it - sick of buying propane in my case. As far as jumping in with no knowledge, I'd say that after a couple...
    Post by: danjayh, Nov 14, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  10. danjayh
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    Attack 45 profi chimney problems

    I would say that's *almost* true - in a pellet burner that augers the pellets into the burn chamber on demand, the fuel supply can be limited by...
    Post by: danjayh, Nov 14, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Boiler Stop Leak solutions

    So I came to the same conclusion as you did while I was working through this - that I needed to know where the leak was coming from before I...
    Post by: danjayh, Nov 14, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Boiler Stop Leak solutions

    I shut my boiler down a few days ago due to the warm weather, and the contracting of the metal must have caused it to spring a leak (oh no!). I...
    Thread by: danjayh, Nov 12, 2012, 25 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Let's see your combustion chambers!

    Very nice! Sorry I haven't posted mine yet, but it blew the breaker the other day. Upon further investigation, I realized that it'd sprung a...
    Post by: danjayh, Nov 12, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Let's see your combustion chambers!

    I know there are a few picture threads out there already, but I wanted to start one specifically for people to post pics of their burn chambers. I'm...
    Thread by: danjayh, Nov 10, 2012, 15 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    question about heating water

    It does matter. Because the thermosiphon effect is dependent on the difference in density between cold and hot water, you will only get a good...
    Post by: danjayh, Nov 9, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    How long 1 cir. pump run on car battery?

    You need to make a lot of assumptions to figure this out. First let's assume you're using a 40 Amp-Hour battery that hasn't degraded in capacity at...
    Post by: danjayh, Nov 8, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    question about heating water

    There's a seller on eBay who has sidearms that have multiple heat exchange tubes inside - I have the small one, an it easily outpaces my electric...
    Post by: danjayh, Nov 8, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    question about heating water

    If you're running your boiler unpressurized, you really don't need to be too worried about having your boiler water get into your domestic...
    Post by: danjayh, Nov 8, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Maxim burn chamber full of tar after just 4 days

    I'm still not sure exactly what caused it, but my money is on sitting idle for too long. The 3 day span in which that happened had highs in the...
    Post by: danjayh, Nov 8, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Low return temp

    Do you have an aquastat on your boiler? If so, does just the return temp get low, or does the water in the boiler actually get too cold too?
    Post by: danjayh, Nov 7, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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