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Blast gate I do not have a woodmaster, I have a shaver clone(acme) but have found that on very windy days, I get smoke, and creosote backfeeding into my blower when the fan is idle. The heat from the fire box blows the fan motor, or the creosote clogs the fan vanes, making it worthless. To cure...

The last outage was for about 12 hours. The nice thing about the owb is that you have an active fire, which we use to cook our diner with. We use those camping deals where you sandwich the meat in between 2 screens. We wait until we have a nice bed of coals and then the steaks go on. We have...

Inverter I picked up a 1100 watt inverter. I hook it up to my truck, and then to a power strip. I have pumps on each of my zones, so I have a total of 7 taco 007's and a blower motor. It runs everything. I live in the coutry so my power fails after large snowstorms. It has worked perfect. About...

The blower was the problem, clogged vanes. I still get a large loss when the radiators call for heat, but the recovery time is about 15 minutes instead of 90. Thanks to all for the help.

The pump to the HX in the house runs 24/7 the pump too the shop only kicks in when heat is called for. I did a quick check on my fan, and found that some fiberglass insulation got sucked up into the vanes, clogging them up a bit. I have a spare blower so I replaced it, until I can clean the old...

Yes that looks that it should work. I did have a problem with creosote when I added any length to the chimney. Now I just let it go up a 10 foot peice 12 inch single wall and out the top of the corn crib. I take the piece of single wall down once a week and beat the creosote out of it and have...

I have 3 radiators run in series. The last one has the return line hooked to it. I also have radiators in the house, but they work fine, as long as the water temp does not get below 160. The house is 137 years old and not insulated. On the days with extreme winds, and below zero temps, I...

I never tried the 011, but would the extra 007 on the return line acomplish the same thing? I just cant seem to get a grip on this problem. In my mind I think it would just make the water colder faster, but I sure could be wrong. Does using a HX make the return water drop less than what the...

I think the example was intended to let you know you are having heat loss on the way to the intended source. My run is 150 feet and I dont see a large heat loss until the water hits the cast iron radiators, then returns to the boiler. Sometime it is as much as 40 degrees. I checked the water...

The pipe is insulated and placed into 4 inch drain pipe. It is 4 feet in most places, but it rises a bit by the boiler. I have had 12 inches of snow over it and not seen any type of melting. I can put a strap on thermometer on the supply side in the shop and see what the temp is coming in. Most...

The shop has 3 radiators run in series. The last radiator is hooked to the return line. The shop is lower than the boiler so they are not hooked to a pressure system. The water is pumped straight from the boiler to the radiators. I have an indoor thermometer and when the shop kicks on I can...

Water temp loss of 30 degrees I have been heating an old farm house (no insulation) with a 240 gallon Acme(shaver clone) OWB. I have cast iron radiators on the first floor and second floor, pressurized system with HX. I also am heating a shop about 150 feet away. I have 1 inch insulated pex...

The water to the house runs 24/7 if I ran the constant to the other building, I think I would use way too much wood.

I could try the 3 speed pump, and I do have a y strainer on the pipe before the hx. The sediment must be real small, almost like a powder, but large enough to clog the smallholes in the hx. Thats no big deal though, I just installed boiler drains in the supply and return lines and use a pump to...

Sorry for the delay, was out of town. Ok, some clarifications. The water temp coming into the house from the boiler is set at 176 degrees. This is coming about 50 feet to the hx, which is heating a pressurized system for the radiators. Then it goes back to the boiler. My thermometer is strapped...

Thanks for the reply, I did give some thought about the 1 inch pex being too small, but I still can't understand that even with maximum heat loss trough the radiators the water is still about as cold as the water from my well when I fill the boiler weekly, which I do not see a heat loss when...

New to the site I have a Acme (Shaver Clone) 235 gallon owb. I have mine installed in an old corn crib, 2 years now. I have went through the chimney issues with plugging up with creosote, finally gave up and just let it smoke inside the corn crib. I am thinking about just running some type of...