Control Engineer and a coal stove....

 
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Post by Trimixdiver » Sat. Nov. 03, 2018 11:12 am

Just couldn’t leave it alone. A real-time draft monitor is going to be nice. The stove is shut down right now. Decent cold flue draw?

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Post by franco b » Sat. Nov. 03, 2018 12:26 pm

Any draw cold is good.

I would like to know why there are scorch or soot marks at the air intake.

 
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Post by Lightning » Sat. Nov. 03, 2018 12:40 pm

More importantly lol, I wanna know what equipment you are using to monitor your stove with. The more details the better :)

 
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Post by Trimixdiver » Sat. Nov. 03, 2018 1:08 pm

franco b wrote:
Sat. Nov. 03, 2018 12:26 pm
Any draw cold is good.

I would like to know why there are scorch or soot marks at the air intake.
Don’t know, bought her for $100. Grates were in great shape, fan worked, no dings or cracks. I think they used it as a wood burner.

Kinda an ugly duckling in the appearance area, but solid performer.

 
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Post by Qtown1835 » Sat. Nov. 03, 2018 3:45 pm

100bill is a great deal. I really liked burning my MK3.

 
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Post by Trimixdiver » Sat. Nov. 03, 2018 6:53 pm

Lightning wrote:
Sat. Nov. 03, 2018 12:40 pm
More importantly lol, I wanna know what equipment you are using to monitor your stove with. The more details the better :)
It’s all Automation Direct DoMore PLC and Cmore touch panel. Can’t afford AB stuff, and the DoMore is a damn good PLC. I’m using a Setra .1inh2o pressure transmitter for draft, and K thermocouples for temperature, all wired back to the PLC

 
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Post by Lightning » Sat. Nov. 03, 2018 7:20 pm

Wow that's cool :) if only I knew what all of that meant lol what's a PLC?


 
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Post by titleist1 » Sun. Nov. 04, 2018 6:26 am

Pretty cool instrumentation! I knew when i saw that pic that lightning would be hooked!! :lol:

I am curious where your stove wall temp is being measured since it is only 63.3 degrees?

 
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Post by KingCoal » Sun. Nov. 04, 2018 7:03 am

titleist1 wrote:
Sun. Nov. 04, 2018 6:26 am
Pretty cool instrumentation! I knew when i saw that pic that lightning would be hooked!! :lol:

I am curious where your stove wall temp is being measured since it is only 63.3 degrees?
i knew when it said "control engineer" it would all be well past me but i just had to look. :o

nifty stuff though.
steve

 
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Post by Trimixdiver » Sun. Nov. 04, 2018 8:01 am

titleist1 wrote:
Sun. Nov. 04, 2018 6:26 am
Pretty cool instrumentation! I knew when i saw that pic that lightning would be hooked!! :lol:

I am curious where your stove wall temp is being measured since it is only 63.3 degrees?
The stove isn’t running right now, so it’s at room temp

 
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Post by CapeCoaler » Sun. Nov. 04, 2018 9:39 am

The static picture with a coal fire burning is confusing people...
Now you need to modify the picture as the temps get hotter or colder...
via the PLC data...

 
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Post by Trimixdiver » Sun. Nov. 04, 2018 1:02 pm

CapeCoaler wrote:
Sun. Nov. 04, 2018 9:39 am
The static picture with a coal fire burning is confusing people...
Now you need to modify the picture as the temps get hotter or colder...
via the PLC data...
I was working on it.

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Post by Trimixdiver » Sun. Nov. 04, 2018 1:05 pm

I also have a Nest camera monitoring the fire in real time. I wish I could use live video as the background, oh well.

 
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Post by CapeCoaler » Sun. Nov. 04, 2018 9:15 pm

How about grabbing a frame every 60 seconds and replace as background...


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