KA-4 Burn Baby Burn!!! Finally!!!

218Bee · Post by **218Bee** » Thu. Jan. 01, 2009 8:04 pm

Hey beatle,

I'll avert any more of a hijack

I've got a new load of coal coming tomorrow. I'll start my own thread if the problem persists.

Enjoy your fire

beatle78 · Post by **beatle78** » Thu. Jan. 01, 2009 8:31 pm

Flyer5 wrote:BTW I think you can sneak a thin rope gasket in around the door frame and shove it in with a screwdriver or putty knife . If not they sell caulking gun tubes of furnace cement .

oh great idea! I'm gonna do that!!! Thanks!!!

beatle78 · Post by **beatle78** » Thu. Jan. 01, 2009 8:32 pm

218Bee wrote:Hey beatle,

I'll avert any more of a hijack

I've got a new load of coal coming tomorrow. I'll start my own thread if the problem persists.

Enjoy your fire

no worries. Yah start a new thread so people can see what the issue is. Otherwise it will get lost in the middle of this thread!

beatle78 · Post by **beatle78** » Fri. Jan. 02, 2009 10:16 pm

ok semi scientific data from the last 24 hours.

1100 sq ft house built in 89. Temp in teens at night and mid-high 20's during the day. Very windy.
Heating the house to ~75/77 during the day and 70/72 at night, 1 shower, 1 dishwasher load, General HW use during the day. 3 Loads of laundry using Warm/Cold in front load.

Looks like I burned ~70 lbs in 24 hours.

I turned the feed rate up two turns from where Dave had it, but I reduce the timer to ~45 seconds. At full burn it still has a couple of inches of ash before the end of the grate.

I'm going to pay closer attention to how full I filled the hopper tonight, but I think the 70lbs is accurate to within 5-10 lbs.

Survey says?

beatle78 · Post by **beatle78** » Fri. Jan. 02, 2009 10:18 pm

p.s. I have the high temp set to 160F which according to the temp on the primary loop is really ~170F before it shuts off. Diff set to 15F.

Freddy · Post by **Freddy** » Sat. Jan. 03, 2009 6:35 am

Five days now & still no oil used? Ohhhh, those poor Arabs. Heheeeee! Ya done good buddy!

stovepipemike · Post by **stovepipemike** » Sat. Jan. 03, 2009 8:37 am

Freddy~ Those poor arabs,not on your life.I recently saw a piece on their energy think tank process.They are now experimenting with wind farm technology and solar panels in the sand.They have a process in place whereby they are tracking every drilling rig and exactly where every drill bit is located deep in the earth.They track and measure every single gallon from the time it is lifted out, until the time it enters the ship for ocean movement.The crusher is that they have their top scientists [they can afford the best] working on a way to transport their future crop of electricity without wires. WHAT??? The top man of energy production when interviewed said they are in business to assure wealth for their grandchildren's children . He said they will take all necessary steps to assure America will be their customer for the forseeable. It saddens me to know the arabs are planning our future energy technology for US, and we are still talking about it since the oil embargo of 1973. Here is hoping we get our head out of their sand in 2009. Regards, Mike

vtec350 · Post by **vtec350** » Sat. Jan. 03, 2009 10:12 am

beatle78 wrote:ok semi scientific data from the last 24 hours.

1100 sq ft house built in 89. Temp in teens at night and mid-high 20's during the day. Very windy.
Heating the house to ~75/77 during the day and 70/72 at night, 1 shower, 1 dishwasher load, General HW use during the day. 3 Loads of laundry using Warm/Cold in front load.

Looks like I burned ~70 lbs in 24 hours.

I turned the feed rate up two turns from where Dave had it, but I reduce the timer to ~45 seconds. At full burn it still has a couple of inches of ash before the end of the grate.

I'm going to pay closer attention to how full I filled the hopper tonight, but I think the 70lbs is accurate to within 5-10 lbs.

Survey says?

With this cold weather we're having your totals seem about right. I'm heating 2000 sq.ft. build in '97, open floor plan with lots of high cielings( 10'-14' ) I'm heating at 70* on 1 zone and 65* in bed rm zones,I don't like it as hot as you have it I'd be asleep all the time

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I'm burning around 80-90 lbs/day..Dec. total was 1 ton exactly, some warmer days we had I was only burning 40-50 lbs/day

I leave my feed nut turned 10 turns out, fire should be 2"-3" from end of grate.......Aquastat is 160* - 180*

Last year I was heating with oil still and paid $2000.00 to freeze, $400.00 this year so far and nice and warm

Dave

Freddy · Post by **Freddy** » Sat. Jan. 03, 2009 11:24 am

stovepipemike wrote:they are tracking every drilling rig and exactly where every drill bit is located

Just the other day someone was telling me of a show they saw that showed the place that is done. HUGE video screens and computers all over. They control every drill, every well, every gallon, all from that one room.

Flyer5 · Post by **Flyer5** » Sat. Jan. 03, 2009 11:45 am

Freddy wrote:
stovepipemike wrote:they are tracking every drilling rig and exactly where every drill bit is located
Just the other day someone was telling me of a show they saw that showed the place that is done. HUGE video screens and computers all over. They control every drill, every well, every gallon, all from that one room.

Supposedly they are doing it that way in N.E.P.A. with the gas wells . Dave

Hollyfeld · Post by **Hollyfeld** » Sat. Jan. 03, 2009 11:58 am

stovepipemike wrote:The crusher is that they have their top scientists [they can afford the best] working on a way to transport their future crop of electricity without wires.

ala Nikola Tesla??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

beatle78 · Post by **beatle78** » Sat. Jan. 03, 2009 1:15 pm

Freddy wrote:Five days now & still no oil used? Ohhhh, those poor Arabs. Heheeeee! Ya done good buddy!

Thanks Freddy!!! This evening will mark 5 days since I've been freed from the shackles of the Arabs for my home heating and HW needs!!!

beatle78 · Post by **beatle78** » Sat. Jan. 03, 2009 1:18 pm

vtec350 wrote:
beatle78 wrote:ok semi scientific data from the last 24 hours.

1100 sq ft house built in 89. Temp in teens at night and mid-high 20's during the day. Very windy.
Heating the house to ~75/77 during the day and 70/72 at night, 1 shower, 1 dishwasher load, General HW use during the day. 3 Loads of laundry using Warm/Cold in front load.

Looks like I burned ~70 lbs in 24 hours.

I turned the feed rate up two turns from where Dave had it, but I reduce the timer to ~45 seconds. At full burn it still has a couple of inches of ash before the end of the grate.

I'm going to pay closer attention to how full I filled the hopper tonight, but I think the 70lbs is accurate to within 5-10 lbs.

Survey says?
With this cold weather we're having your totals seem about right. I'm heating 2000 sq.ft. build in '97, open floor plan with lots of high cielings( 10'-14' ) I'm heating at 70* on 1 zone and 65* in bed rm zones,I don't like it as hot as you have it I'd be asleep all the time .

I'm burning around 80-90 lbs/day..Dec. total was 1 ton exactly, some warmer days we had I was only burning 40-50 lbs/day

I leave my feed nut turned 10 turns out, fire should be 2"-3" from end of grate.......Aquastat is 160* - 180*

Last year I was heating with oil still and paid $2000.00 to freeze, $400.00 this year so far and nice and warm

Dave

ok, thanks Dave. I turned down the house today to ~72-74F. I need to ditch the Mercury t-stat I meant to heat the house to mids 70's but yesterday I noticed the t-stat was calling for heat and the house was at 77F. Time to go pickup a digital t-stat!

Flyer5 · Post by **Flyer5** » Sat. Jan. 03, 2009 1:21 pm

Just think of how ticked you would have been if you were still using oil .

vtec350 · Post by **vtec350** » Sat. Jan. 03, 2009 2:49 pm

beatle78 wrote:yesterday I noticed the t-stat was calling for heat and the house was at 77F

At 77* I would've had the suntan lotion out

Flyer5 wrote:Just think of how ticked you would have been if you were still using oil .

It doesn't hurt half as bad when you're heating with coal

Dave