2013?
So how did all this turn out?
I built a wood fired indoor boiler in the early 1990s. It put my natural gas boiler to shame. I used a airtight wood burning stove with a glass door that I had sitting in my back yard. Torched holes through the sides at the upper rear. Welded in 1/2 in black pipe used copper threaded adapters and 90s to connect each of 6 pipes into a serpentine loop. Wasn't hot enough so I added 6 more.still wasn't getting enough heat to all the radiators and to the heated tile floors so I split the loop to the radiators into two loops so it went through the first loop then back to the boiler and then to the second loop. Now it was cooking. It was a 3000 sq ft 2-1/2 story Victorian house that I built. Used it that way for 10 years before we moved. Had one issue with a air bubble that made steam and melted a solder joint at the 90s on the wood stove turpentine loop. No one died or were injured thank God. Lesson learned.
We now live off grid on 40 acres in northern Arizona.
My interest here is to build a rocker mass type boiler however an indoor one. I want more efficiency. The outdoor heaters he was referring to couldn't be more than 50% efficient at best. Too much heat loss.
My concern with the rocket mass idea is loss of flue temperature and therefore loss of efficiency.
Has anyone built anything that works and is efficient?
I've read a lot here but please excuse my ignorance in understanding the design and engineering of the RMH and knowing how to engineer what size flue, what size piping and what size barrel. I would like ours to be able to cook on also. Or maybe several
different RMH for our different needs. My background is in electrical contracting. 40 years. Retired now. I also have experience in automotive mechanics, welding, plumbing, excavation, equipment operating, electronics, amateur radio, building residential and commercial, masonry and probably more.Thanks in advance to all
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