Hi! LOVE Hearth.com. Have been following it for a few years now- through my wood pellet boiler, my wood boiler and now- while researching gasification boilers.
The Froling and Wood Gun have features that I like...but unfortunately, not prices I like!
I have seen some reasonably priced gasification boilers on ebay and was wondering what people thought of the Attack boilers. I know that BoilerMan and WaesNotSock have DP45's, so I hope to hear from them and anyone else that has experience with one.
The models on ebay are the DP5000 and the DPX6000 (which I assume is the newer model).
I know they are UL certified, but I haven't confirmed yet if they are CSA approved- I hope so!
They come with 3 different control options: Standard, Profi, and Lambda.
I don't know what the price difference is, or what the different features are of each controller, but from reading I've done on here, it seems that the preferred choice is "Lambda."
Can someone explain why this would be better than the Profi?
My boiler is inside my shop, with 110' feet of pex tubing to the house. There is an air handler in the basement, and I have an indirect DHW tank ready to be installed. I have a 600 gallon stainless steel insulated, non-pressurized water storage tank (that isn't really being used right now because all of the heat comes to the house). The tank can't be pressurized, so I need to know if non-pressurized will work, or if it is even necessary to have the extra storage.
I have a Benjamin right now, but it really isn't designed to be used as a primary heat source- it is recommended as a secondary source, but I knew it was going to be temporary.
Just FYI...the house is an 1857 log cabin- 2500 sq ft.in midwestern Ontario (in the snowbelt). Well insulated, but needing new windows. I keep the heat at 67- 68 degrees most of the time, 69 if its really cold. I am going to be heating the hot tub (inside) with it, and I have in-floor heating in the stone floor in the kitchen.
Some of the things I am looking for:
1) LITTLE TO NO SMOKE- both inside when I am reloading or outside from the stack. (I've read everyone's feedback on positive & negative pressure....seems to be 50/50 opinions that depend solely on what brand of boiler you have.) If gasifiers truly reduce the outdoor smoke then I may not install the condensing propane boiler I have been considering. I am in a valley, and all the smoke just drops down and sits when the boiler is idling- especially in the spring and fall- and all the smoke from my neighbour's OWB drifts down here and sits on my property as well. I have problems with my lungs, and my horses have to breath this all the time, which makes me crazy, so that is one of the main reasons for moving to the gasifier!
2) EASY TO CLEAN/MAINTAIN (I had the tubes with turbulators in them on my pellet boiler and I HATED cleaning them!!)
3) LONGEST BURN TIMES POSSIBLE BETWEEN RELOADING (the fewer times I have to reload it the better! Right now, I have to stoke the Benjamin every 3 hours- not so nice when it is -30C at night lately.)
4) BEING ABLE TO BURN WHOLE LOGS OR LARGE SPLITS would be preferred to small splits like a Froling requires.
5) PRICE
So....any feedback, including problems that anyone has had with Attack boilers, would be very welcome.
I need something reliable that I am not going to have to worry about breaking down or repairing all the time (like the Woodpecker Pellet boiler that I wasted thousands of dollars on....). I appreciate your time!
Thanks. Patti
The Froling and Wood Gun have features that I like...but unfortunately, not prices I like!
I have seen some reasonably priced gasification boilers on ebay and was wondering what people thought of the Attack boilers. I know that BoilerMan and WaesNotSock have DP45's, so I hope to hear from them and anyone else that has experience with one.
The models on ebay are the DP5000 and the DPX6000 (which I assume is the newer model).
I know they are UL certified, but I haven't confirmed yet if they are CSA approved- I hope so!
They come with 3 different control options: Standard, Profi, and Lambda.
I don't know what the price difference is, or what the different features are of each controller, but from reading I've done on here, it seems that the preferred choice is "Lambda."
Can someone explain why this would be better than the Profi?
My boiler is inside my shop, with 110' feet of pex tubing to the house. There is an air handler in the basement, and I have an indirect DHW tank ready to be installed. I have a 600 gallon stainless steel insulated, non-pressurized water storage tank (that isn't really being used right now because all of the heat comes to the house). The tank can't be pressurized, so I need to know if non-pressurized will work, or if it is even necessary to have the extra storage.
I have a Benjamin right now, but it really isn't designed to be used as a primary heat source- it is recommended as a secondary source, but I knew it was going to be temporary.
Just FYI...the house is an 1857 log cabin- 2500 sq ft.in midwestern Ontario (in the snowbelt). Well insulated, but needing new windows. I keep the heat at 67- 68 degrees most of the time, 69 if its really cold. I am going to be heating the hot tub (inside) with it, and I have in-floor heating in the stone floor in the kitchen.
Some of the things I am looking for:
1) LITTLE TO NO SMOKE- both inside when I am reloading or outside from the stack. (I've read everyone's feedback on positive & negative pressure....seems to be 50/50 opinions that depend solely on what brand of boiler you have.) If gasifiers truly reduce the outdoor smoke then I may not install the condensing propane boiler I have been considering. I am in a valley, and all the smoke just drops down and sits when the boiler is idling- especially in the spring and fall- and all the smoke from my neighbour's OWB drifts down here and sits on my property as well. I have problems with my lungs, and my horses have to breath this all the time, which makes me crazy, so that is one of the main reasons for moving to the gasifier!
2) EASY TO CLEAN/MAINTAIN (I had the tubes with turbulators in them on my pellet boiler and I HATED cleaning them!!)
3) LONGEST BURN TIMES POSSIBLE BETWEEN RELOADING (the fewer times I have to reload it the better! Right now, I have to stoke the Benjamin every 3 hours- not so nice when it is -30C at night lately.)
4) BEING ABLE TO BURN WHOLE LOGS OR LARGE SPLITS would be preferred to small splits like a Froling requires.
5) PRICE
So....any feedback, including problems that anyone has had with Attack boilers, would be very welcome.
I need something reliable that I am not going to have to worry about breaking down or repairing all the time (like the Woodpecker Pellet boiler that I wasted thousands of dollars on....). I appreciate your time!
Thanks. Patti