I’m going through a ton of wood on my 7400e and in the morning the temp on water is down to 90. Set point is 180 and differential of 8 degrees. Heating 60x80 shop radiant floor and domestic hot water with it.
What kind of wood are you burning, and is it dry? I bought a moisture meter to make sure it's below 20%. If it's above that you will burn more wood. The boiler will also struggle to reignite
So you have your temperature set at 190 and your differential set at 40? I'm having trouble finding a "sweet spot" with my 7300e and what to set it at. It burns up wood super fast.
I watched your next video and you put in the description that your temp is 180 and it shuts off at 170 so your differential is 10? In this video you stated different. Could you clarify? thanks
Sorry about that. The controls on the side shut the unit down if it gets to 190. It will not open the plate in the back and turn the fan on until it cools down to 150. This is to protect the boiler from getting too hot. I believe it is on page 30 of the manual. I missed it until this happened to me lol. As for set points I have it set to 180 and turn on at 170. So a dif of 10 degrees. What kind of wood are you burning?
Yes, that's true. The nice thing is a lot of the ash is small fly ash, which gets sucked out. I do think I'm going to clean the secondary burn chamber more often than I have. Seems to burn less wood when it's really clean. It is not that hard to do a rough clean.
We are thinking the same way. Last year I started planting some swamp white oak and some other trees. I think I am also going to get some buckets of white and red oak acorns from my parents property. I will have the kids fill up the buckets then dump them out in the woods. Make the squirrels do the hard work for me.
I’m going through a ton of wood on my 7400e and in the morning the temp on water is down to 90. Set point is 180 and differential of 8 degrees. Heating 60x80 shop radiant floor and domestic hot water with it.
What kind of wood are you burning, and is it dry? I bought a moisture meter to make sure it's below 20%. If it's above that you will burn more wood. The boiler will also struggle to reignite
Can you burn pine and spruce?
I am not sure. I'm sure you could but it would not last long. I have thrown some pine in there before and it just burned way to fast.
So you have your temperature set at 190 and your differential set at 40? I'm having trouble finding a "sweet spot" with my 7300e and what to set it at. It burns up wood super fast.
I watched your next video and you put in the description that your temp is 180 and it shuts off at 170 so your differential is 10? In this video you stated different. Could you clarify? thanks
Sorry about that. The controls on the side shut the unit down if it gets to 190. It will not open the plate in the back and turn the fan on until it cools down to 150. This is to protect the boiler from getting too hot. I believe it is on page 30 of the manual. I missed it until this happened to me lol.
As for set points I have it set to 180 and turn on at 170. So a dif of 10 degrees.
What kind of wood are you burning?
Also check the nozzle in the main chamber and make sure it's not broken that will drop the efficacy down a lot as well.
Ash leave a lot of coals but when they are gone a lot of ash
Yes, that's true. The nice thing is a lot of the ash is small fly ash, which gets sucked out. I do think I'm going to clean the secondary burn chamber more often than I have. Seems to burn less wood when it's really clean. It is not that hard to do a rough clean.
Replant the area with white and red oak.
We are thinking the same way. Last year I started planting some swamp white oak and some other trees. I think I am also going to get some buckets of white and red oak acorns from my parents property. I will have the kids fill up the buckets then dump them out in the woods. Make the squirrels do the hard work for me.