fish safe wood water heater? - Aquaponic Gardening2024-03-28T23:29:22Zhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/forum/topics/fish-safe-wood-water-heater?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A545101&feed=yes&xn_auth=noHi Mark,
It depends on the…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2014-02-01:4778851:Comment:5449862014-02-01T18:24:09.602ZShelia Hoythttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/SheliaHoyt
<p>Hi Mark,</p>
<p> It depends on the weather. Recently it has been around a rank of wood or just under with Zero temps and sub-zero wind chills, of course in Missouri our weather patterns go up and down like a yo yo. I do not burn any wood through the day if the temps are in the 30's or 40's. My system is around 650+ gallons I also utilize passive solar by placing glass on top of my pond, fish tank, and I have three- 55 gallon drums that I use to top off the system and water my plants in…</p>
<p>Hi Mark,</p>
<p> It depends on the weather. Recently it has been around a rank of wood or just under with Zero temps and sub-zero wind chills, of course in Missouri our weather patterns go up and down like a yo yo. I do not burn any wood through the day if the temps are in the 30's or 40's. My system is around 650+ gallons I also utilize passive solar by placing glass on top of my pond, fish tank, and I have three- 55 gallon drums that I use to top off the system and water my plants in the GH. When it is sunny the water temps can increase 15 degrees or more through the day.</p>
<p>My water temps stayed between 68-73 degrees at night and around 50 in the GH even when it was zero. One night I let the fire go out and the green house temp dropped to the 30's and the water temp stayed in the 60's I do cover my tanks at night with Styrofoam to hold in some of the heat.... I also plan to get a magic heat re-claimer; however ,it has been on back order since December.</p>
<p><br/> <br/> <cite>mark gordon said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://community.theaquaponicsource.com/forum/topics/fish-safe-wood-water-heater?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A544936&xg_source=msg_com_forum#4778851Comment544936"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Hi Sheila,</p>
<p>can you give me an estimate on how much wood/fuel you're using to heat your hoop house. say for one month, I've been mulling over adding some type of wood heater to help us get back to growing again.</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>chef mark gordon</p>
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</blockquote> There is a pretty cool greenh…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2014-01-31:4778851:Comment:5450492014-01-31T14:27:23.496ZDavid - WIhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/DavidWI
<p>There is a pretty cool greenhouse heating calculator here; it will output btu/hour plus watts of electricity, gal of propane, and cf of natural gas... and you can convert from btu/hr to cords of wood pretty easily.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.littlegreenhouse.com/heat-calc.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.littlegreenhouse.com/heat-calc.shtml</a></p>
<p>There is a pretty cool greenhouse heating calculator here; it will output btu/hour plus watts of electricity, gal of propane, and cf of natural gas... and you can convert from btu/hr to cords of wood pretty easily.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.littlegreenhouse.com/heat-calc.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.littlegreenhouse.com/heat-calc.shtml</a></p> Orry,
Our setup is in NH and…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2014-01-31:4778851:Comment:5451012014-01-31T13:53:47.391ZRoss Williamshttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/RossWilliams
<p>Orry,</p>
<p>Our setup is in NH and we have had months of temps below freezing. We have a Froling wood boiler which heats two 400 gallon storage tanks. I have a temperature sensor in the filter tank set to turn on at 69F and off at 70F. When the sensor calls for heat 120F water is pumped through 3/4 pex to my sump tanks where it passes through a 30ft coil of 3/4 inch ribbed stainless tube. During spring and fall it takes about 1hr to raise the temp 1 degree. During this cold weather it is…</p>
<p>Orry,</p>
<p>Our setup is in NH and we have had months of temps below freezing. We have a Froling wood boiler which heats two 400 gallon storage tanks. I have a temperature sensor in the filter tank set to turn on at 69F and off at 70F. When the sensor calls for heat 120F water is pumped through 3/4 pex to my sump tanks where it passes through a 30ft coil of 3/4 inch ribbed stainless tube. During spring and fall it takes about 1hr to raise the temp 1 degree. During this cold weather it is running almost non stop to maintain 69F. I am currently heating about 15,000 gallons. The greenhouse it's self has been falling to freezing at night but because the plants are sitting in the warm water they are still growing. I am currently circulating about 8 gallons a minute through my deep water tanks and the same going directly to the fish tanks. I also loose a lot of heat to the greenhouse through the <acronym title="Nutrient Film Technique" class="bbc ipSeoAcronym">NFT</acronym> and Zip towers.</p>
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<p>If you want to heat the greenhouse its self you are going to need a lot.</p> Hi Sheila,
can you give me an…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2014-01-31:4778851:Comment:5449362014-01-31T08:48:04.530Zmark gordonhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/markgordon
<p>Hi Sheila,</p>
<p>can you give me an estimate on how much wood/fuel you're using to heat your hoop house. say for one month, I've been mulling over adding some type of wood heater to help us get back to growing again.</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>chef mark gordon</p>
<p>Hi Sheila,</p>
<p>can you give me an estimate on how much wood/fuel you're using to heat your hoop house. say for one month, I've been mulling over adding some type of wood heater to help us get back to growing again.</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>chef mark gordon</p> Hi Orry,
Stainless steel. I…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2013-12-21:4778851:Comment:5378132013-12-21T16:51:22.439ZShelia Hoythttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/SheliaHoyt
<p> Hi Orry,</p>
<p>Stainless steel. I had my husband build me a heat exchanger and it works great. Temps have got as low as 9 degrees and when I keep the wood heat the water temp stays in the 70's. My system is over 600+ gallons. I have a picture of mine on my page...</p>
<p> Hi Orry,</p>
<p>Stainless steel. I had my husband build me a heat exchanger and it works great. Temps have got as low as 9 degrees and when I keep the wood heat the water temp stays in the 70's. My system is over 600+ gallons. I have a picture of mine on my page...</p>