Well Spring has Sprung and this week Air Conditioning season has officially begun.
We are well into mowing season but the old John Deere F915 has a problem. The PTO bracket on the engine broke so that needs fixing before we can mow anything.
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This is the piece that broke off. I will see if I can get a new one but I'm not holding my breath. The machine is over 25 years old so we will probably have to fix this one.
Fired up the snow blower and ran it out of gas. Then put it away until Winter.
On to the Axeman.
Last Sunday when I put the barrel in, I didn't get the hole in the bottom lined up correctly. When I came home from work on Monday, the fire was almost out!
The fan just kept running for hours and hours. The auger shut off on the "Low Stack Temp" limit.
I managed to recover the fire but our fan hour readings and consumption calculations would be very skewed, so we won't bother with them this week.
New, corrected labels. Thanks again N!
Over the past 7 days;
Fan reading, 956.5 - 910.9 = 45.6 hours of fan run time, 6.51 hours per day.
Ash reading, 530.9 - 508.5 = 22.4 hours of ashing, 3.20 hours per day.
37 pounds of rocky with some coal in it ash.
Ash is completely off track this week.
12% = XXX.00 pounds, XX.XX pounds per day. X.XX pounds per fan hour.
15% = XXX.00 pounds, XX.XX pounds per day. X.XX pounds per fan hour.
18% = XXX.00 pounds, XX.XX pounds per day. X.XX pounds per fan hour.
We used a little more that half a barrel this week.
Filled it up again. Ready for another week!
Current settings,
Fan RPM = 1293.75 RPM (Stock is 2875 RPM)
Ashing = 2.0 Teeth
Auger speed = 4.31 RPM (Stock is 8.05 RPM)
Grate cycles per hour = 10.35
Pounds per hour = About X pounds per fan run time hour
Aquastat = 160*F (Inkbird), ON/OFF, Hysteresis = 5*
Anthrastat = 125*F (Inkbird), Hysteresis = 0.5*
Low flue temperature cut off = 160*F, Hysteresis = 0.1*
-Don