Help Figuring Out Design Heat Load and BTU Loss

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Post by coalmaster » Mon. Jan. 04, 2016 9:35 pm

I just used a worksheet for figuring out heat loads but don't really know if the numbers I came up with are close or even what do do with the numbers now that I have them... I already have a stove but I thought it would be neat if I could figure it all out. The design heat load came out to 672.91. And BTU loss which I figured to ways. I used the hdd 55 for one and used the average between philly and pittsburg which was a multiplier of 2700. This, ibelieve is the most representitive of my climate. This gave me a heat loss of 44million btu. Alternatively I used the multiplier of hdd 65 for Syracuse which had a multiplier of 6000. This gave me heatloss of 95 million.

Anyone have any input? Am I on the right track, I'm plenty warm and was looking for something to do

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Post by coalmaster » Wed. Jan. 13, 2016 8:36 pm

I just realized that I put the decimal in the wrong place. Is 6729 btu/hr


 
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Post by lsayre » Wed. Jan. 13, 2016 8:44 pm

I think it was Sting who originally pointed me to this simple to use on line heat loss calculator. Give it a try.

http://www.builditsolar.com/References/Calculators/HeatLoss/HeatLoss.htm

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