No teltale smoke from Gassers.That is the beauty of the design.Not wasting BTU'S like the outdoor smoke dragons you would be looking for.I would think Iowa would have quite a few outdoor gassers around. ? No telltale smoke plume though.
How to find someone that would let you look it over in great detail might be tough.
Are any of them actually "boilers"? I don't know that I have even seen/heard of a wood fired boiler (making steam) being used for private/residential use...But are they boilers or water heaters?
Are any of them actually "boilers"? I don't know that I have even seen/heard of a wood fired boiler (making steam) being used for private/residential use...
I am guessing but it sounds like your burning your current home made unit full tilt during a burn and putting the BTU'S in your 1500 gallon storage. I would wonder if you will pickup enough efficiency building a gassier to make it worth while for the time and money building it. Look others have said lots of good drawing on the net of current gassier's why wouldn't you just copy one. I do have a Garn 2000 in eastern Nebraska if you wanted to see one in person.Thanks @maple1 I do realize there are tons of variables and I am just winging it, I have 1500gal of storage so that is a help and I know how big my primary is, it figures out to about the 24x24x24 I am wanting to build and does the job in about 4-6 hours in mid winter, takes about 4 loads to get there so assuming I get the new one to work right I should pick up more efficiency and therefore cut number of loads down at least, probably not time but....that is part of the improved efficiency of the gasser over my non conventional setup that I am running.
The garn is a sweet idea but since I already have the storage in place I dont really want to go to a garn, thank you for the offer though. So I am basically copying the EKO design, however I am thinking I am going to use Born2Burn's air preheat design, I really like how he did that and it makes good sense to me, as far as building to gain efficiency I look to gain some just by increasing the fire tube length and number, I also have no real choice but to build one, cant afford to buy and old unit has developed a leak after 12 years, and the first 8-9 years being run in very poor manner to say the least.I am guessing but it sounds like your burning your current home made unit full tilt during a burn and putting the BTU'S in your 1500 gallon storage. I would wonder if you will pickup enough efficiency building a gassier to make it worth while for the time and money building it. Look others have said lots of good drawing on the net of current gassier's why wouldn't you just copy one. I do have a Garn 2000 in eastern Nebraska if you wanted to see one in person.
I have both a wood gun E 100 that I’m in the process of refurbishing and also an Econoburn 100 that is also all torn apart waiting for an overhaul.@salecker you have a point, I don't have any around here to copy, The only gasser I know of anywhere around is huge and heating almost 7000sqft, I sure dont need that much. If I could find another one within reasonable driving rang I could study I would
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