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    Should I get an electric water heater?

    It depends. Is your oil fired water heater on it's last legs or is it still in good shape? How much would it cost you daily to burn oil to heat...
    Post by: juddspaintballs, Feb 12, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    outdoor wood boiler loader

    I've thought about a "loader" before for my wife on the days I'm working. It was more akin to a flat lift table that could lift the wood from the...
    Post by: juddspaintballs, Feb 2, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    HELP OWB to hot during blizzard

    When I was having boil over problems I was able to manually open my zone valve for the house (Taco electronic ball valve). I set the house blower to...
    Post by: juddspaintballs, Feb 2, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    HELP OWB to hot during blizzard

    The 20' chimney does make it hard. All I need is a 5 gal bucket to get to mine
    Post by: juddspaintballs, Feb 2, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    HELP OWB to hot during blizzard

    you can stick a metal plate over the chimney, either fully to kill the fire or partially to slow the draft.
    Post by: juddspaintballs, Feb 2, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    HELP OWB to hot during blizzard

    does your draft door use a solenoid to hold it closed or only gravity? if no solenoid holding it closed, then the high winds could easily be pulling...
    Post by: juddspaintballs, Feb 2, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Thermosyphon with Sidearm HX

    I have a SS circulator on my sidearm. It is on the bottom. Initially I had it sucking cooler water from the bottom and throwing it into the hot...
    Post by: juddspaintballs, Feb 1, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Underground lines - not the place to skimp!

    What I did was dig my trench about 4' deep with an excavater and then I ran my electrical conduit on the bottom of the trench. On top of that, I...
    Post by: juddspaintballs, Jan 30, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  9. juddspaintballs
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    Black iron pipe to copper?

    I'd default to using brass in between
    Post by: juddspaintballs, Jan 28, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Thermostat Questions

    You could use a relay to kill the fan and circulator when the water temp is lower than the same set point on the aquastat that kills the compressor...
    Post by: juddspaintballs, Jan 27, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Thermostat Questions

    I have a heat pump and OWB. What I did was I installed an aquastat on my supply manifold in the basement that senses the water temp in my OWB's...
    Post by: juddspaintballs, Jan 24, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Generators and Circulators

    If your house isn't electric hungry or excessively large, you could just about power your entire house off of two 5500w generators.
    Post by: juddspaintballs, Jan 12, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Using the wood furnace during very long power outages

    Honeywell and a couple other manufacturers make small portable inverter generators as well that only sip fuel. They may not be as quiet, but at half...
    Post by: juddspaintballs, Jan 12, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Hot water filter/screen

    I have an issue with my hot water. First of all, the sidearm exchanger is run from the bottom tap of the tank back to the top and I'm using a Taco...
    Thread by: juddspaintballs, Jan 11, 2011, 0 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    should I buy a boiler or a wadena outdoor furnace??? Help me decide

    Go with a boiler. Outdoor furnaces require LARGE holes in the side of your house and you lose a lot of efficiency.
    Post by: juddspaintballs, Jan 1, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Help sizing pipe and heat exchanger

    Here's the reasoning I went with for my coil in the plenum: I went big. A 22x22 3 row coil is far larger than I need to heat my house. I can vary...
    Post by: juddspaintballs, Dec 28, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Insurance question

    When my insurance lady asked me about my heat source, I told her I would be using a heat pump but using an outdoor wood boiler about 65' from the...
    Post by: juddspaintballs, Dec 28, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    OWB Placement

    The best answer is to call up your homeowner's insurance and ask them how far away to put it. They'll have a minimum distance for you. I would...
    Post by: juddspaintballs, Dec 27, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    How to Size Hot Tub Heat Exchanger

    I'm sure there's fancy calculations to figure it out, but I can get water temps above 104 degrees out of my water heater's side arm exchanger using a...
    Post by: juddspaintballs, Dec 27, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    4 wire thermostat on 2 wire system?

    Honeywell makes 2 wire digital T stats for $25. You can pick them up at Home Depot.
    Post by: juddspaintballs, Dec 26, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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