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You should only need one pump for the boiler
You should only need one pump for the boiler
It could be 10 times that much wood in the cold weather to heat all you want to heat. I know how much I use, It would be quite a job to come up with 2 or 3 times as much wood. Looks like a great project, I admire anyone who can fabricate something like that.
one pump per zone you mean? i'm going with a 2 zone to begin with. then possibly 3 or 4 zone.
Also highly considering a high volume of water to 'store' the heat from the wood you could say..
i'm shooing for a 500-800 gallon system, with 100gallon in the boiler itself. Lots of insulation as well
36 cubic feet of poly is ~$700, r value of 7.
I think i'm going to install the 1". i don't think i'll ever use 1.25" pex. Maybe if i need to pull a tremondous amount of BTU per hour off the water, then i might need volume per minute to move around quickly. but for 3 or 4 100K exchangers, operating randomly, never at once, and such a massive amount of stored BTU's in the water, i shouldn't have a problem.
why would the fire go out if there's wood in it?
the damper woudl close and the fan shuts off, and it does the classic 'smoldering' . As long as i check on it every 12 hrs, it should never go totally out....
water chills, boiler cycles, heats the water, shuts back down.
that is the point of using so much water. So it won't cycle so often. yeah, it's going to take a long time to get heated. but the stored BTU's will be much higher with so many gallons. Assuming go crazy insulating everything.
FYI, the noodle 8ft foam pieces from CB has an R-value of 13. Or so says one of the techs.....
I agree it is better to have the fire outside, I have an owb myself. Just from a couple of your comments I thought you may be grossly underestimating the wood usage heating that kind of square footage. I won't mention it again.
1 1/4 pex? or 1"?
1" or 3/4" copper for inside the building?
http://www.rancoetc.com/ranco-etc211000000-stage-p-105.html?osCsid=2dffeae47b0da6ac378ac10875951839
couldn't find the right one on your first link.
awesome pick though. Might even order the pre-wired one for convenience ...
pretty much set. gonna call up CB and ask them for a draft solenoid.
any particular reason you posted that one? i see theres quite a selection.
what's the differences? able to pull more leverage at the expensive of pulling more amps?
stroke?
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