Dogwood, it’s really hard for me to say how many hours he spent actually installing the system. The boiler/tanks were dropped off in mid November and the first fire wasn’t till mid January. Then it was up and down a couple times to fix leaks. Work was mostly done in small increments with a couple full days thrown in. If I had to guess I would say 60-80 hours were spent on site installing. This spring I have spent numerous hours fixing more leaks that developed in all the brass to black iron threaded connections.
At first I spent a bit of time looking at the electronic readouts. You know, looking at oxygen levels, stack temps and whatnot during a burn. While it is interesting, after a couple weeks I pretty much stopped. The only thing I changed a bit was the temp the tanks need to be before the boiler shuts down. I basically bumped it up to the max, which is 90 Celsius (all readouts display in centigrade).
I’m burning 90% dry mixed hardwood. I burned a bit of softwood and other than the quicker burn I had no problems. Just open the door at any time and throw more in as needed. This winter I plan on burning a bit more soft wood since I’ve been taking down some big old hemlocks.
I assume you are asking about the amount of smoke I get from the chimney. This is really minimal. It’s very hard to see any at all most of the time. It also has a different smell as well. It’s almost like wood or nuts or something being toasted. It’s hard to describe but it’s totally different than typical wood smoke.
Last night I took a look at model numbers of the pumps that were installed. On the return side of the boiler there is a Wilo #4095807. The boiler turns on this pump when aprox 65 degrees is hit. The other 2 pumps are 3 speed Wilo #4090765. These are on either side of the Caleffi hydraulic separator and locations can be seen in the pictures in the previous post.
I plan to take some pics tonight but with a 4 month old baby in the house who knows how that will go……
Jon
At first I spent a bit of time looking at the electronic readouts. You know, looking at oxygen levels, stack temps and whatnot during a burn. While it is interesting, after a couple weeks I pretty much stopped. The only thing I changed a bit was the temp the tanks need to be before the boiler shuts down. I basically bumped it up to the max, which is 90 Celsius (all readouts display in centigrade).
I’m burning 90% dry mixed hardwood. I burned a bit of softwood and other than the quicker burn I had no problems. Just open the door at any time and throw more in as needed. This winter I plan on burning a bit more soft wood since I’ve been taking down some big old hemlocks.
I assume you are asking about the amount of smoke I get from the chimney. This is really minimal. It’s very hard to see any at all most of the time. It also has a different smell as well. It’s almost like wood or nuts or something being toasted. It’s hard to describe but it’s totally different than typical wood smoke.
Last night I took a look at model numbers of the pumps that were installed. On the return side of the boiler there is a Wilo #4095807. The boiler turns on this pump when aprox 65 degrees is hit. The other 2 pumps are 3 speed Wilo #4090765. These are on either side of the Caleffi hydraulic separator and locations can be seen in the pictures in the previous post.
I plan to take some pics tonight but with a 4 month old baby in the house who knows how that will go……
Jon
