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    Tarm shutting down during startup

    Jim, This was my assumption as well; that the fire just wasn't hot enough to keep the sensor satisfied. However, if I'm around when it happens, it...
    Post by: penfrydd, Nov 7, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Tarm shutting down during startup

    Scantec (Tarm) Solo 40 once in a while shuts down during startup; usually after all the wood is loaded and there's a decent bed of coals. Once I...
    Thread by: penfrydd, Nov 6, 2011, 6 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    hemlock for fuel?

    Like I said in my original post; its great for sheds, but I've already got all the space I need. I've torn down lots of barns with hemlock plank...
    Post by: penfrydd, Jul 28, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    hemlock for fuel?

    Yes, I've got plenty of hardwood, but geez, I'd like to get rid of some of the hemlock, and it's not worth logging. I've never burned it. What's it...
    Thread by: penfrydd, Jul 27, 2011, 10 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    pH additives

    So...now that the main heating season is over and the system has been working a couple of months, I can shut it down, add one more radiator that I...
    Thread by: penfrydd, May 6, 2011, 2 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Tarm: Comments after two months

    It's a Solo 140 with 850 gal non-pressurized storage. It all works fine, though bridging of fuel is rather frequent, seemingly no matter how small...
    Thread by: penfrydd, May 6, 2011, 18 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    normal stratification; balancing valve questions

    thanks for the info, sweetheat. I've been burning wood since 1975. Had an old Riteway which served me well for many years. Got an early gassifier...
    Post by: penfrydd, Mar 27, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    normal stratification; balancing valve questions

    So, When the top of my unpressurized storage reaches around 175, and the draft fan shuts down, what sort of temperature differential should I have...
    Post by: penfrydd, Mar 27, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    normal stratification; balancing valve questions

    I've got a top of the line vent, but, of course, there are all sorts of zigs and zags in my piping. But I think the air issue is disappearing. As...
    Post by: penfrydd, Mar 27, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    normal stratification; balancing valve questions

    It's an 850 gallon non-pressurized tank.
    Post by: penfrydd, Mar 27, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    normal stratification; balancing valve questions

    New install of Tarm 140 with storage. First fire yesterday, 850 gal tank currently at 131 (top) all the way down to 59 degrees (bottom. It started...
    Thread by: penfrydd, Mar 27, 2011, 15 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    First burn; Tarm way over temperature!

    My information says to set the high point of the boiler at 180. To be on the safe side, and to protect the EDPM liner, I've set the high at 175....
    Post by: penfrydd, Mar 27, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    First burn; Tarm way over temperature!

    Things have greatly improved... I had failed to open a ball valve that I put in to isolate my new install from the oil system, so I could pressure...
    Post by: penfrydd, Mar 27, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    First burn; Tarm way over temperature!

    Tarm 140 with 850 gallon storage. Tank temp started at 47 degrees F at 3 pm yesterday. All was working fine, with draft fan shutting down at 175...
    Thread by: penfrydd, Mar 27, 2011, 5 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Need for Check Valve???

    It's possible that I've come up with the answer to my own question...My oil boiler system has it's circ on the return line. If that circ is not...
    Post by: penfrydd, Jan 29, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Need for Check Valve???

    Tarm install with thermal storage and backup oil is almost complete. I have only one large zone. Question: Shouldn't there be something to...
    Thread by: penfrydd, Jan 29, 2011, 1 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    sizing a heat trap

    I'm installing a Solo 40 and want to make the heat trap for the thermal storage. What sort of dimensions am I aiming for? Example: 8" high X 18"...
    Thread by: penfrydd, Dec 4, 2010, 5 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    optimum infeed location for Tarm

    Okay...so I'm putting the circ on the return, as noted in Tarm drawings, with expansion tank and spirovent on supply side of circ. Where is the best...
    Thread by: penfrydd, Nov 30, 2010, 2 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Tarm circulator on supply instead of return

    Thanks for the help. penfrydd
    Post by: penfrydd, Nov 30, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Tarm circulator on supply instead of return

    Tarms drawings all show C-3 circ on return line. All the boiler guys I speak to tell me that's old school. Most circs are now on the supply side....
    Thread by: penfrydd, Nov 29, 2010, 8 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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