Hey Greg (LsFarm) You will like this!!
My friend I work with (controls background) has been messing with his hand fired/wood/coal stove for a while now, we have been going back and forth with me on mine and how it works, he had a home grown auger system previously (red thing in background), but couldn't get enough burn area since it clumped into a big pile on the burn plate...so
This year, he was building a stoker unit for it!! AS you can see, it is quite the apparatus, limit switches, computer controls, Analog/digital sensors, timers, temperature sensors, even an Automatic ash sweeper!!
The big motor on the floor is the electro/hydraulic stoker mechanicism...
Here are a couple of pics he gave me, the stove with homemade stoker and the wiring/control system that runs on a laptop computer!!!....
Homemade Automatic Feed for Hand fired Coal/Wood Stove
- LsFarm
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I can see where I'd shovel the coal in, but where is the on/off switch?? If it is computer controled, I'm sunk. Computers and me just barely get along.
Greg.
He looks like he has spent a lot of time in the unit!!
Greg.
He looks like he has spent a lot of time in the unit!!
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Quite the setup, previously, he has had his share of malfunctions, like filling the stove up with coal without it burning!! oops.
On/Off switch? hmmmm.....
On/Off switch? hmmmm.....