Efficiency Article

www.omni-test.com/Publications/efficiency_eye.pdf

Check this out. It's all in the eye of the beholder.

Crap, I can't get it to work. Try this site and go to the pub "Efficiency is in the Eye of the Beholder"

www.omni-test.com/Publications.htm

not werking fer me

go to

http://www.omni-test.com/Publications.htm

and click on the bottom-most PDF

yeah i fixed it, but thanks!


Good read, I already assumed that all to be true.

There is no standardized test to measure efficiency! This article should put the efficiency debate to rest. Best thing to do is test yourself in your own home and see what works best for you.

I know all about efficiency...

My house has an 1940's era coal furnace that was retofit to burn oil. It distrubutes the heat via gravity feed hot water, and it is located in my basement.

Each time I have it serviced, the technition tells me that the efficiency is somewhere around 78% - 79%. But that's horse apples.

The measurements are all done AT THE FURNACE!.

I don't care how effiecient my furnace is at heating up - I am heating my house, not the furnace!

with a gravity feed Hot water set up, you have to have everything just right, or the hot water doesn't go where you want it to. Apparantly, the previous owner added on two rooms & tied their radiators into the hot water in such a way that the heat flow is now very uneven - some radiators get hot, and some don't.

Also, gravity feed systems are slow, so you loose heat along the way to the radiator. Some of it is dumped into the basement (unused), and more bleeds off in the walls

so the actual efficiensy is probably on the order of 50%.

hahah!

And Gideon fires back!

hey, where the hell has Dylan been?

Sorry BG, I aint the best spellerer.