heimdm
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| 09 Feb 2010 05:40 PM |
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I have a Climatemaster Tranquility 27, 5-ton system with 3 zones. We are looking at adding a wood furnace to supplement. Currently we use our quadrafire fireplace, which does well, but does not heat the rest of the house.
What is the best way to hook up a wood furnace to my existing setup? Any recommended wood furnaces? We are near Indianapolis, IN and have a 3500 square foot house, and are surrounded by hardwood forrest. |
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TechGromit
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| 12 Feb 2010 08:45 PM |
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Well you could have a return located in the same room (but no supply) as the fireplace, thus when the system is on, it's drawing the heat from the room with the fireplace, reducing the load on one of the other zones. How ever it does nothing for the other zones, unless of course you had returns from the other zones also located in the same room. You'll want to install dampers, so you could close off the return when not in use, like the summer for example. While not an ideal setup, I believe it can offer some benefits.
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engineer
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| 13 Feb 2010 08:02 PM |
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I did something like that in an end unit townhome near Philly. The room with the woodstove had a vaulted ceiling, and I returned air from that high space into the duct system
It did a halfway decent job of circulating wood heat elsewhere in the house |
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arkieoscar
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| 13 Feb 2010 10:00 PM |
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Around here, almost all of the wood furnaces are outside and heat water that is circulated through coils in the duct work. People like that they don't have wood or flame in the house and they provide all of the DHW. Firebox is filled twice a day and thermstatic control of feed air keeps water temps right. Down side is having to de-scale every year or two. |
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geome
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| 14 Feb 2010 09:58 AM |
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What needs to be descaled? Is the circulating water a closed or open loop? |
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| Homeowner with WF Envision NDV038 (packaged) & NDZ026 (split), one 3000' 4 pipe closed horizontal ground loop, Prestige thermostats, desuperheaters, 85 gal. Marathon. |
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engineer
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| 14 Feb 2010 12:30 PM |
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I imagine the fireside heatexchanger has a tendency to scale |
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Curt Kinder <br><br>
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is - Winston Churchill <br><br><a href="http://www.greenersolutionsair.com">www.greenersolutionsair.com</a>
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arkieoscar
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| 14 Feb 2010 04:00 PM |
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The ones that I have seen are open loop, with the DHW in the loop. I've not paid attention to the plumbing as I don't need one. My geo is working fine although I do have a fire in the fireplace for Valentine's Day. |
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Como
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| 14 Feb 2010 07:34 PM |
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Lots and lots of wood gassifying boilers. Avoid the OWB's, they are banned in many places.
www.bioheatusa.com for an example of what is available.
www.hearth.com for a forum. |
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Palace Geothermal
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| 14 Feb 2010 08:41 PM |
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what is OWB? |
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Como
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| 14 Feb 2010 09:19 PM |
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Outdoor Wood Boiler
The ones that make all the smoke. |
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