Reflex1957 said:
Not a clue here in regards to storage, what type do you mean, where can it be obtained, must a dealer install it, I can soldier myself did my new addition. And no leaks, HA HA.
Thermal storage is just what the name implies, any sort of thing that can store a large amount of heat for a while, and give it back later. While all sorts of things have been used, what nearly all the folks here use and what seems to work best is large amounts of water - typically around 1,000 gallons or so in a very well insulated tank. Essentially you run your boiler at maximum fire for the entire burn cycle, or close to it, and any heat produced in excess of your load gets dumped into the storage tank, warming it up. You then let the boiler go out and pull all your heating load back out of the storage until the storage cools down, and you build another fire in the boiler and repeat the cycle. (this can be anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on season, load, storage size, etc) If you look at some of the stickies at the top of the boiler room page, and go through many of the threads you can get more details on just how it works, and how to build it, which can certainly be done yourself. Minor note, if you are in MA, there can be issues with trying to build a pressurized storage system thanks to our state's stupid rules on the subject, it may be simpler to build non-pressurized storage from a legal standpoint.
Also, I was told by the Econoburn customer service staff that my problem may be just that it is on slow burn way to long, Ok so then how do I adjust it.
As mentioned earlier - the adjustment is to build smaller, hotter fires - put less wood in the unit at a time... You want the boiler to be putting out just enough heat to feed your demands unless you have storage - the boiler needs to run in gasification mode as much of the time as possible, when it is doing so, you will be burning clean and efficiently, but any time the boiler goes into idle you are just building creosote... If you burn at full blast most of the time, any creosote that does get made will tend to burn off, but not if you are idling and building it up faster than it can be burnt off. The big advantage of storage is that it in effect gives you a huge demand load that will keep you running full blast for the entire burn.
[/quote]Also have yours had yours serviced at all, My tech came here and I gave him the directions and he was Pissed that everyone told him hat the tube cleaning rods just slide right out and then slide right back in again after you clean them with a 2 inch. Brush. UMM NOT at all. Opinion please. My tech spent 45 minutes getting them and 30 getting them back in. even after we sprayed them down good with silicone.[/quote]
As mentioned, sounds like you have some major creosote problems, either from wet wood, or over loading the boiler (or both). I've been told you can also have more problems if don't crank on the cleaning lever a couple times between each load of wood. If you are burning cleanly, those tubes stay quite clean and people report that the turbulators go in and out easily - with the service mostly being to verify that all is well... If you have been building creosote, then it builds up in the tubes and will require a lot more of a cleanup job to get the turbulators in and out.
[/quote]Now I am about to fire it up with in the next week or so, in regards to the wood, the directions say burn a 20% moisture wood, not totally dry but just 20% moisture.
Loved the way it heated but the creosote was a pain in the butt.[/quote]
20% is about the
wettest wood you should be burning, drier is better, but it can be difficult to get a lot drier than 20% with air drying. This means your wood should be cut, split, stacked and COVERED for at least a year prior to burning, preferably two... You need a moisture meter, and to remember that the outside of a split is not all that important, you need to re-split the round and measure the INSIDE to get a good reading.
Bottom line, smaller fires, drier wood and / or adding storage will cure the creosote problems.
Gooserider