Hello All,
Long time Lurker & reader, first time posting. My friend has an indoor wood gasification boiler for sale that was only ran for a partial season as a demo I think (My friend purchased it used, was not the guy running it, and never hooked it up, has been stored inside since). I've scoured the forums and the internet and cannot come up with ANY literature on this boiler.
It is labeled as a "Johnson Energy Converter" and has a "Made in Canada" sticker on it, but I cannot find a model tag or rating plate anywhere on this boiler. As far as my research has gotten me, I believe this may be similar (or same??) as one of the Wood Doctor Converter gasifiers, but cannot come up with any info on capacity of this boiler. Appears to hardly have been used at all. May be able to get photos in the future, but it was buried in the corner of a dark barn when looking it over. Boiler has doors on each end of it, I assume most are cleanout doors + the wood loading door.
My friend will likely either give me or sell for very cheap this boiler, but I'm hesitant not knowing anything about its capacity- how many sqft it can handle. We would be trying to heat a 2000 ish sqft house with poor to moderate insulation (to be upgraded as we go along) and then after a couple years a 30x40 pole barn with infloor heat. Assuming that since this is an indoor unit then thermal storage must also be used with this boiler?
Hoping the braintrust among this site may have something like an old sales brochure laying around or at least a model comparison- if they are indeed the same as the Wood Doctor Converters, then I guess I just need to determine which model this one is built like.
Years ago I built an Outdoor boiler that was a hungry hungry hippo, about all I could do to keep up with it due to low efficiency, sold it after 5 years. Hoping a gasifier would be greatly improved on the wood consumption side of things.
Appreciate all the info this site has to offer, and any responses in Advance
-Rich in SE MI
Long time Lurker & reader, first time posting. My friend has an indoor wood gasification boiler for sale that was only ran for a partial season as a demo I think (My friend purchased it used, was not the guy running it, and never hooked it up, has been stored inside since). I've scoured the forums and the internet and cannot come up with ANY literature on this boiler.
It is labeled as a "Johnson Energy Converter" and has a "Made in Canada" sticker on it, but I cannot find a model tag or rating plate anywhere on this boiler. As far as my research has gotten me, I believe this may be similar (or same??) as one of the Wood Doctor Converter gasifiers, but cannot come up with any info on capacity of this boiler. Appears to hardly have been used at all. May be able to get photos in the future, but it was buried in the corner of a dark barn when looking it over. Boiler has doors on each end of it, I assume most are cleanout doors + the wood loading door.
My friend will likely either give me or sell for very cheap this boiler, but I'm hesitant not knowing anything about its capacity- how many sqft it can handle. We would be trying to heat a 2000 ish sqft house with poor to moderate insulation (to be upgraded as we go along) and then after a couple years a 30x40 pole barn with infloor heat. Assuming that since this is an indoor unit then thermal storage must also be used with this boiler?
Hoping the braintrust among this site may have something like an old sales brochure laying around or at least a model comparison- if they are indeed the same as the Wood Doctor Converters, then I guess I just need to determine which model this one is built like.
Years ago I built an Outdoor boiler that was a hungry hungry hippo, about all I could do to keep up with it due to low efficiency, sold it after 5 years. Hoping a gasifier would be greatly improved on the wood consumption side of things.
Appreciate all the info this site has to offer, and any responses in Advance
-Rich in SE MI
