mtfallsmikey
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Hey Tim.....not sure what your asking me here?
There's just a few hang ups I have about owb's.
The big water jackets cause the fires to go into a smolder for too long of periods making a bunch of creosote.Water can hold heat for a long time keeping the stat from calling for heat.So the cold stack manufacture creosote.A faster cycling call for heat would help that issue.
Then when they come on they smoke like heck. That would not be so bad ,but the short stacks on them leave the smoke at ground level.
They could use a 1000 degree source of combustion air into the firebox over the fire to burn off most of the smoke.Achieving those other 30-40% of the btu's available.Then you could get rid of your stack reclaimer.
That's all I got Tim...other than that I like what they can do.
I mean there are other minor issues but those would be more personal issues rather than main operation/equipment type issues.
That's where the gasifier comes into play...it blast-burns, but you really need a bunch of storage to fully utilize it. Plus good dry wood.