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Bought a wood chipper - burning green chips

I finally broke down and bought a 3-point hitch chipper to deal with the brush piles. I originally figured we'd use the chips for mulch and compost...

Thread by: Nofossil, Apr 7, 2013, 41 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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Losing water part II - sacrilegious question

Now that my problem is solved, I have to wonder.... This is probably a bad question for three reasons: (1) Blasphemy and (2) Initiation of endless...

Thread by: Nofossil, Mar 7, 2013, 12 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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Losing Water

I appear to have a small leak somewhere, as I lose pressure over a day or two. (My boiler, that is - not me personally). I pressure tested everything...

Thread by: Nofossil, Feb 27, 2013, 17 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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Squeaky Grundfos

I recently installed a new Grundfos 15-58 FC that had been sitting on a shelf in my basement for a few years. Worked fine for a week or so, but now...

Thread by: Nofossil, Feb 13, 2013, 6 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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Variable speed boiler circulator experiment

I've been running for years with the Poor Man's Variable Speed Circulator and decided that it's time to bite the bullet and use a real variable speed...

Thread by: Nofossil, Feb 5, 2013, 22 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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Eating your own dogfood

For those of you who aren't computer geeks, the title of this thread refers to a Microsoft program from the 90s in which management decreed that they...

Thread by: Nofossil, Jan 2, 2013, 5 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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Eko: Puffing and Purge cycle question

For those of you with the newer Eko controller (or any other gasifier with a purge cycle for idling): What experience have you had with different...

Thread by: Nofossil, Dec 22, 2012, 4 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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Fan Speed vs. combustion temp

I finally got around to plaing with direct control of the blower on my Eko 25. I'd like to write a smarter control algorithm than what's in the Eko...

Thread by: Nofossil, Dec 20, 2012, 17 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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Pulling the plug

On Sunday, I finally pulled the plug on the controller that I've been using since June of 2006. It's been amazing - never crashed, never failed in...

Thread by: Nofossil, Nov 20, 2012, 10 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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Tinkering with monitoring and control

Some of the longer-term members here may remember when I started putting together a control system. Lots of folks here have helped in one way or...

Thread by: Nofossil, Nov 15, 2012, 13 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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Back to newbie status :-(

Been away for a while (life and everything). Came back to discover that I'm a new member. Guess there's a lot of learning to do. Good to see that...

Thread by: Nofossil, Oct 17, 2012, 6 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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Hot Tub HX - 9 year failure report

I built a hot tub heat exchanger back in 2002 and plumbed my hot tub as an extra zone on my heating system. Some folks wanted pictures of the...

Thread by: Nofossil, Sep 27, 2011, 9 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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Not near-boiler plumbing: DHW & storage

After lots of discussion and pictures over the years of near-boiler plumbing, I realized the most convoluted plumbing that I have is far from the...

Thread by: Nofossil, Feb 6, 2011, 23 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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Creosote drips on loading door

This year I have the driest wood ever. It's a mix of about half poplar, with the rest being red cedar, birch, locust, cherry, and buckthorn. My...

Thread by: Nofossil, Jan 26, 2011, 17 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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Hydronics meets Cat6

I'm in the process of replacing all of the kludged network wiring in my house with Cat6 using wall plates and patch panels. One problem that I have...

Thread by: Nofossil, Jan 17, 2011, 14 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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Happy Halfway Day!

By my calculations, today is approximately the halfway point in degree-days. If you still have half your wood pile, then celebrate! For me, the...

Thread by: Nofossil, Jan 15, 2011, 13 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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Attic insulation and dry wood - nice!

This fall, we finally blew in more insulation in our attic to make up for 22 years of settling. We also have really dry wood, even though half of it...

Thread by: Nofossil, Jan 11, 2011, 13 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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Wood Boiler Planning Checklist?

There have been many threads over the years describing problems that people have had with wood boiler installations. Seems like it would be good to...

Thread by: Nofossil, Jan 11, 2011, 7 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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Boldly going where no boiler control has gone before

It came to me in a blinding flash of insight: for all the work I've put into controls, I've foolishly focused on heating systems. While this is all...

Thread by: Nofossil, Dec 26, 2010, 10 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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Merry Christmas!

Wishing everyone here a safe, happy, and warm holiday season. [img] Live: http://www.nofossil.org/christmas-tree.html In the live version, the...

Thread by: Nofossil, Dec 24, 2010, 18 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces

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