Looking good Greg. How does a boiler run in the shoulder seasons, still fill it to the brim for each load? or can you trim it back a bit depending on the weather?
[/QUOTE="My IS heats my home, post: 167762, member: 401"]Looking good Greg. How does a boiler run in the shoulder seasons, still fill it to the brim for each load? or can you trim it back a bit depending on the weather?[/QUOTE] Not sure how Greg will run the CB, but with my hardy I never loaf it to the brim. Took me a good part of last year to figure it out, but now I only load as much as I need to get to the next load cycle. All loading it full got me was increased wood consumption. I also found that during shoulder season my load time duration increased. I could typically get by with only loading once a day, or even 36 hours depending on how much hot water we used.
Running well thus far. Discovered one circular pump inside that was dead upon restart, but other than that going well! Supposed to be 40s here tonight, so glad to be up and running.
I run it half full or so if not less during shoulder season. Just try to get it so that when I come back to reload there is always a good hot coal bed. Mine has oil for either starting or backup, so if it does go out it just converts over to oil. Since this is my first time with this unit, I tired oils fired startup, or "clean start" as they call it. Very cool. Pile it up, turn the button, oil burner ignites into fire box for 5-15 minutes depending on how you set it, and cranks the wood right up. Having fun this far!
I do like that. I still split most of the big stuff cause i like to max my wood shed and stacking all big rounds takes up a lot of space, but it is nice when you have the occasional weird piece. In it goes! I usually can fill it with scraps from my splitter as well, so I do that occasionally for some but producing clean up.
