blue83camaro wrote:Here is a picture of my furnace. I have been able to maintain a constant temp in house no matter what the temp outside, up to 50 degrees. They are calling for 55 degrees in a few days I'll have to see if I can throttle it back enough for that.
Pictures of Your Stove
As a new member, l would like to share my coal burning bad and good experiences.
After more than 20Y. of wood burning, l decided to burn anthracite and sold my Everburn wood stove.After years of researches(this forum is a gold mine),l bought a new Vigilant ll coal stove. l removed the restriction plate and realised that the stove had a lot of weak points in the conception. The stove didn't heat very much and was worst after a couple of days of burning. l tried all l could but it never worked correctly.So l decided to do some modif. to the stove. Nothing to do! This year l decided to get back to wood burning but tried for the last time a few modif. More than 12 modif. some minor some major.With the same house, same chimney, same anthracite(chestnut), the stove became perfect. Much more heat with a lot less anthracite, no more ash build up and no shut down (excepted for a video). l even asked my daughter to perform the 24h. process in the video to show how it was easy to burn anthracite now. The stove must be safe to use and now it is even safer and bullet proof. Now all my family love burning anthracite.(l apologize for my English).
Salutations.
2 Videos: A Different Vigilant II coal stove
Part 1 of 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LuJhV96RK0
Part 2 of 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPwjPsNnc9k
After more than 20Y. of wood burning, l decided to burn anthracite and sold my Everburn wood stove.After years of researches(this forum is a gold mine),l bought a new Vigilant ll coal stove. l removed the restriction plate and realised that the stove had a lot of weak points in the conception. The stove didn't heat very much and was worst after a couple of days of burning. l tried all l could but it never worked correctly.So l decided to do some modif. to the stove. Nothing to do! This year l decided to get back to wood burning but tried for the last time a few modif. More than 12 modif. some minor some major.With the same house, same chimney, same anthracite(chestnut), the stove became perfect. Much more heat with a lot less anthracite, no more ash build up and no shut down (excepted for a video). l even asked my daughter to perform the 24h. process in the video to show how it was easy to burn anthracite now. The stove must be safe to use and now it is even safer and bullet proof. Now all my family love burning anthracite.(l apologize for my English).
Salutations.
2 Videos: A Different Vigilant II coal stove
Part 1 of 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LuJhV96RK0
Part 2 of 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPwjPsNnc9k
- tsb
- Member
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- Location: Douglassville, Pa
- Stoker Coal Boiler: Binford 2000
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: LL Pioneer top vent
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Saey Hanover II
- Baseburners & Antiques: Grander Golden Oak , Glenwood # 6
- Coal Size/Type: All of them
Great job on the stove. Good video. Should be required viewing for all
the wives on the forum. Tending a stove is not hard. You enjoy the heat more
by the effort put in.
Tom
the wives on the forum. Tending a stove is not hard. You enjoy the heat more
by the effort put in.
Tom
Thank you tsb, like l said (and red on w. sites), the V.C. VigilantII was very difficult to work with and many wrote that it was a cave age stove. There were so much places for ash build up so the stove was always choked. The shaking syst. couldn't get rid of that ash. Now it burns non-stop and takes about halft the anthracite it was taking before with much more heat. Now I can talk of anthracit burning without shame.
Salutations
Salutations
- mcgills443
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- Joined: Mon. Mar. 02, 2009 3:39 pm
- Location: Chateaugay, NY
- Stoker Coal Boiler: Van Wert 400
- Coal Size/Type: Rice,Buck
- Other Heating: Hot air oil furnance
Hi everyone,
Here's my stove. Harman Sf-260 boiler.First year using coal and I'm hooked. I heat 1700 sq ft. home and hot water. House is newly contructed. I use a water to air heating coil, in the bottom of my down draft hot air oil furnance that heat the house nicely. The radient heat that comes off the boiler heats my garage 50-60.
Here's my stove. Harman Sf-260 boiler.First year using coal and I'm hooked. I heat 1700 sq ft. home and hot water. House is newly contructed. I use a water to air heating coil, in the bottom of my down draft hot air oil furnance that heat the house nicely. The radient heat that comes off the boiler heats my garage 50-60.
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Here is my Harman SF-160 I threw out the old oil burner in May and installed the Harman. I use this as my only heating source. I have been burning coal since December. I am hooked as well! Im heating about 1200 sf using pea coal and hot water baseboard. I have burned about 3 tons this season.