Harmon Hand Fired Coal Furnace.

CoalUserWannabe · Post by **CoalUserWannabe** » Mon. Oct. 10, 2011 9:03 pm

Stanb999 wrote:A buddy has purchased and installed a 1500 SF. coal/wood furnace.
What say you all?

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I Sayz that'z a Big Stove, or someone puts something in my beer !

Stanb999 · Post by **Stanb999** » Tue. Oct. 11, 2011 7:13 pm

markviii wrote:Well, that's no different than most stokers. They either stoke, or sit idle. Temperature control is managed via...well, controls.

Back to the hand-fired world...I went through this same exercise with a hand-fired boiler. I took out most of the temperature swings with a manual pipe damper and a modified air control.

Perhaps a more aggressive idle fire and constant operation of the blower will help level things out, but I would also study that inlet air control to see if the "full fire" opening can be throttled a bit.

I thought the stoker Guys try to get it to run at a steady state of sorts.... Matching the speed with the heating requirements?