must be goin back a few years fred. My power sapping family likes to enjoy electricity. My bill is usually 150-170 per month. If it was 300 A year I would have bothered starting this project. Everyone took a nice long shower last night and currently the take is back up to 90. Not running the stove any harder than normalfreetown fred wrote: ↑Fri. Jan. 19, 2018 12:00 pmWhen I had all my daughters (3) & 2 boys # me--my elec. bill (elec. HW heater & lights + elec. pasture fence was real minimal. I'm thinkin around $25.00 a month. $300.00 a year. Less then a dollar per day. Ya never want to have a bunch of women complain about a lack of hot water!!
Dhw tempering with 50-93
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Not bad at all C. If I even suggested the time limits, etc. to my grandkids, I'm sure I'd be lookin at a mutiny!!! LOL
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its been about 24 hours since showers started last night here is an update
110 gallons of 91*. This setup works but it's limited. Here is the temporary insulation I'm using I have two layers of ceramic tiles. they were convenient , I had them stacked behind the stove, some day I'll get around to laying them where the stove sits. The fiberglass is outside the tile because I tried it against the coil and I didn't think it was working as good- coalmaster
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C, are those tiles between the stove body & coils? Hopin not. Still thinkin if ya flop those coils horizontal you'd notice a difference.
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No the coil is against the stove then the tile. It would take quite a bit of rework to change this coil. It's a reverse return so turning it doesn't fix the issue with water leaving before it really gets heated. I'll have to make a new one that runs in series like Oliver power suggested
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No guarantees C, but I think it would be worth the effort.
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Well Lightning, I too am impressed with what you've done with the Clayton. However, I have to agree with Fred. The 50-93 is PERFECT just the way it is. Don't mess with it...... Hardly ANY room for fastening to side walls. That being said; there is one place a coil could be fastened. That is the front of the hopper, where the heat is also concentrated. The more I think about it, that might take a PERFECT stove, and make it MORE PERFECT.Lightning wrote: ↑Fri. Jan. 19, 2018 8:40 amIt really doesn't matter what I started with, Fred. Those coils are designed to be installed in any wood or coal stove that they'll fit into for the benefit of very cheap hot water. As long as the installer has the ingenuity to do it. That's why we have this coal board. So that people can gain the knowledge and confidence to take on projects like this.
You can only cut the holes once, so measure twice, sleep on it and then measure again.
Only thing is; One couldn't remove the hopper in the newer 50-93's.
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Yeah, I'm using more coal. But at the same time windows are open. Amazing how well this hitzer heats
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Sounds good C. American ingenuity!!