yes i have one and love it after fighting with profab for two years. feel free to ask any questions you wantLooking at a g200 gasafyer
Anyone have experience with one
yes i have one and love it after fighting with profab for two years. feel free to ask any questions you want
yes i original had a profab empyer elite 200. well actually two of them in two years and they were both junk. it was so bad on the second stove that Ben the engineer came down to look at my stove.fighting with profab?
have you had dificulty getting wood dried down enough to burn? What % moister?
is maintance an issue ?
how bad does it smoke compaired to a conventional oudoor boiler?
yes i original had a profab empyer elite 200. well actually two of them in two years and they were both junk. it was so bad on the second stove that Ben the engineer came down to look at my stove.
no i have not had a problem dry. i am one year ahead on wood or better. as far as moisture it has averaged 13 to 15 on the outside and 17 to 19 in the center, i burn all types of wood. the one thing i have figured out about this stove is that the wood needs to be split a little smaller then before. the reasoning is for the purpose of getting the wood falling into the center of the stove over the opening. about 2 minutes a day for maintenance and about 10 minutes on Sundays to clean out all the ash. i have had the stove almost two months and no real issues.
yes i have a g200 my heat load is a two story house with a basement for a total of 2400 sq feet. the house is just a little over two years old and fairly tight. yes i am also running domestic hot water too. sorry i did not get to your smoking question yesterday been a long week at a new job. let me break your smoke question down to explain a little better. yes the stove smokes when you load the stove sometimes it all depends on where the stove is at in its firing cycle. but you need to remember that when you open the by pass the fire box is under negative pressure. the fan pulls all the smoke out of the fire box and none comes out the door. the only time the stove smokes at an idle is right after the stove shuts down from a firing cycle and it is only for a minute or two. now while the stove is running depends on your definition of smoke. if you are just talking about the bad smoke it really depends on timing of the cycle. worst case the stove might smoke for two or three minutes at the most till the secondary gets warm enough to light the gases and that is it. the other smoke is the good smoke or just water condensation in the really cold air.you have a g200?
what is your heat load sq feet and domestic hot water
smoke is a comcern for me, does it smoke when you load, at idle or when running?
thanks for the help
no i do not plan on running it during the summer. i normally shut it down in April depending on the daily temps. then i let the tankless kick in and do it job all summerTreefrog do you plan on running it in the summer? If so what will you do about it idling for to long.
I only stated my question because I read posts from people with gassers and storage heating for dhw in the summer.
Maybe the g series isn't the correct boiler for that situation but it seems a varm, eko, tarm etc with storage is. From what I have read in the past.
I bet either one will keep you warm in the winter and the heating bill down.
But that G-200 you can set on a pad, hook up some PEX and some pumps and you're good. the EKO is a whole different animal and really needs storage, and that ain't cheap. the G-200 has 200 gallons internal, and the EKO 60 has 47 gallons internal and doesn't modulate. That greatly affects the burn characteristics.Yes but a $9700 G200 vs a $7000 eko 60 is a big difference. Granted it's not apples to apples, but you get the idea.
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