First time post, long time reader. Appreciate the fine info given here. Question for the gurus: is baseboard hydronic heat really a reasonable match for a gasification boiler? I ask because it seemed to be a pretty elegant solution to keep the oil delivery truck away to just hook up one of these jewels to my existing distribution system which is oil fired hot water baseboard. The problem that I see now that I've gone thru the time and expense of installing the boiler (60 kw Vigas with 1000 gal propane tank storage 50' from house) is that the baseboard system requires 180deg water at minimum. This is very near the top of the design limitation of the boiler /storage system ---which to me isn't a very good design. A lot of the heat generated by a burn and stored in the tank is not useable. One then is constantly just topping off the storage tank temperature wise, rather than having infrequent big burns. Furthermore, no matter how well one insulates, the losses are bound to be greater with higher storage to ambient gradients. I understand that radiant operates at lower temps. Does that need to be the next big project---to install radiant? I'm hearing ca-Ching.
One last question. I read on the "fine tuning the Eko" long sticky thread, something to the effect of turning down the fan, to produce a slower, cooler burn so that the heat doesn't just go up the flu. Is that statement evidenced based and is that opinion generally shared here or just someone's theory?
Thanks in advance.
Gregory
One last question. I read on the "fine tuning the Eko" long sticky thread, something to the effect of turning down the fan, to produce a slower, cooler burn so that the heat doesn't just go up the flu. Is that statement evidenced based and is that opinion generally shared here or just someone's theory?
Thanks in advance.
Gregory