Coalgun S500 Project

The boilers come with an "ash drawer." I left the drawer in and installed a custom funnel/grate in it. Could you see the auger coming out of the boiler? I really should have taken a few pics before I installed it. It is buried pretty good and I hope to only remove it once a year for spring cleaning of the boiler.
Joseph

looks great! A couple more weeks and you will need it running to chase the cold out.

You're missing the easy chair and small fridge containing the beverages to enjoy while watching the boiler!?

Is the coal auger (& ash auger) manual or do you have some sort of sensor triggering it?

Yea it will be fun watching this one "work!"
The ash auger will run every time the boiler "dumps, we always called it riddles"
Thanks!
Joseph

Yea it will be fun watching this one "work!"
The ash auger will run every time the boiler "dumps, we always called it riddles"
Thanks!
Joseph

Almost 2 weeks since we heard from you there JL, how is your project doing ?? Got coal ?? got heat ??

Just got back yesterday from from helping my brother in law and sister move to Missouri. Helped make firewood for them!!!
I have the guys coming out beginning of next week to hook everything up. Then we will be seeing more pics!
Joseph

Thanks for the update.

We finally got our boiler up and running...
Pictures to come in the next few days...

I was wondering about you,good to hear from you,looking forward to pics.

Here are a few shots of the finished project...
We just got up and running a little over a week ago and have it pretty fine tuned already, feels good to have this project done and these bills behind us.. spent quite a bit more than we first planned...
If we were to redo it, we would put a leanto against the container and use the skidloader to fill it every week or two.. would be a lot less money than the bin, but we are very happy with the setup so far.. the only thing we aren't cracked over is the auger for ash removal. It works... but not a cadillac.
In the beginning we were planning to put in an lp genset... we sold that one and bought a diesel one. A sincere thanks to all that helped with this project!!!!
Please let me know if I can help any of you guys or a friend of yours!
Also if you want any other shots that aren't here, please let me know and I will see if I can't get it for you.

Looks good,Nice set up with the boiler & genset in the same container like that. You still didn't put your location in your profile,i looked to the right to see where you are located...guess I will have to hunt back thru to find it. Enjoy you coal heating/work reducing system this winter,we sure have enjoyed the last month + 5 days since we fired ours.

Nice Installation.
One question, in photo #4 the greenish thing in the middle of the photo is that the generator? See attached photo.
If so I was wondering if you hooked it's cooling system into the heating system to keep it up to temperature, to minimize wear and tear on it when it fires up?
I have piped numerous back up generators into a buildings heating system to keep them up to operating temp for instant starts.
Dan.

Looking Good JL!! Enjoy the warmth.

Are you planning on insulating the enclosure?

I was wondering about the efficiency if the boiler isn't insulated as well as heat loss from the piping if the building wasn't insulated.

Lu47Dan wrote:Nice Installation.
One question, in photo #4 the greenish thing in the middle of the photo is that the generator? See attached photo.
If so I was wondering if you hooked it's cooling system into the heating system to keep it up to temperature, to minimize wear and tear on it when it fires up?
I have piped numerous back up generators into a buildings heating system to keep them up to operating temp for instant starts.
Dan.

Dan,
Yes that is the generator.... it has an electric block heater on it. I never thought of that idea of running heat from the boiler through it. Neat idea! do you need a heat ex-changer for that???