Hello,
I just installed a woodgun E250 in my shed to heat house and shed. Rather than use the standard controls, I built a controller based on an "arduino" style microprocessor controller. Basically a chip for those of us who don't understand C programming.
It has a thermocouple to keep track of the boiler temperature, a relay to open and close the flue, and a variable frequency drive to run the draft inducer fan at different speeds. The interface is a simple button (could survive a tornado.)
An LED in the button is blue for off, yellow for wood loading, green for full power, teal for half power, white for 1/4 power, and red for high temperature shutdown. I'm working on the program- different speeds based on boiler temperature, etc. I've got something very basic running now but will improve on it over the winter.
Boiler temp (could add flue temp at some point) is reported on a LCD screen.
Modern open source physical computing is great!
Anyhow, thought you guys would like this,
Andrew
I just installed a woodgun E250 in my shed to heat house and shed. Rather than use the standard controls, I built a controller based on an "arduino" style microprocessor controller. Basically a chip for those of us who don't understand C programming.
It has a thermocouple to keep track of the boiler temperature, a relay to open and close the flue, and a variable frequency drive to run the draft inducer fan at different speeds. The interface is a simple button (could survive a tornado.)
An LED in the button is blue for off, yellow for wood loading, green for full power, teal for half power, white for 1/4 power, and red for high temperature shutdown. I'm working on the program- different speeds based on boiler temperature, etc. I've got something very basic running now but will improve on it over the winter.
Boiler temp (could add flue temp at some point) is reported on a LCD screen.
Modern open source physical computing is great!
Anyhow, thought you guys would like this,
Andrew
