Geothermal Heating - Aquaponic Gardening2024-03-29T10:21:37Zhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/forum/topics/geothermal-heating?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A280870&feed=yes&xn_auth=nosome really good info here
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<p>some really good info here</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.sunnyjohn.com/indexpages/shcs.htm" target="_blank">http://www.sunnyjohn.com/indexpages/shcs.htm</a></p>
<p>some really good info here</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.sunnyjohn.com/indexpages/shcs.htm" target="_blank">http://www.sunnyjohn.com/indexpages/shcs.htm</a></p> I found this site while looki…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-05-03:4778851:Comment:3291462012-05-03T00:06:17.010Zestevan chaparrohttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/estevanchaparro
<p>I found this site while looking for a way to heat a big hoop house. I think that it is a great plan if you can do it from scratch.</p>
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<p>I found this site while looking for a way to heat a big hoop house. I think that it is a great plan if you can do it from scratch.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.sunnyjohn.com/indexpages/shcs.htm" target="_blank">http://www.sunnyjohn.com/indexpages/shcs.htm</a></p> I know I'm arriving late to t…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-02-25:4778851:Comment:2980592012-02-25T04:58:53.516ZTeresa N Floridahttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/Teresa
<p>I know I'm arriving late to this party, but Penn & Cord seem to have found the right equation ></p>
<p><a href="http://pennandcordsgarden.weebly.com/greenhouses.html">http://pennandcordsgarden.weebly.com/greenhouses.html</a></p>
<p>I know I'm arriving late to this party, but Penn & Cord seem to have found the right equation ></p>
<p><a href="http://pennandcordsgarden.weebly.com/greenhouses.html">http://pennandcordsgarden.weebly.com/greenhouses.html</a></p> Rob I have watched your const…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-01-27:4778851:Comment:2841612012-01-27T17:44:50.873ZMichael Quinoneshttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/MichaelQuinones
<p>Rob I have watched your construction videous a couple of time tremendous my hat is off to you, nice, you have impressed me. Good for you, great job. <br></br> <br></br> <cite>Rob Torcellini said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://aquaponicscommunity.com/forum/topics/geothermal-heating?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A283697&xg_source=msg_com_forum#4778851Comment283761"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>I jsut put a rocket mass heater in my greenhouse: …</p>
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<p>Rob I have watched your construction videous a couple of time tremendous my hat is off to you, nice, you have impressed me. Good for you, great job. <br/> <br/> <cite>Rob Torcellini said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://aquaponicscommunity.com/forum/topics/geothermal-heating?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A283697&xg_source=msg_com_forum#4778851Comment283761"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>I jsut put a rocket mass heater in my greenhouse: <a href="http://youtu.be/_DhCRUMxnNM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/_DhCRUMxnNM</a> It's working quite nicely so far!</p>
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<p>To answer the earlier question about heating the water instead of the air. You can heat the water to about the same temperature as the air. If you rely on all the heat for your greenhouse from the water, you will run into big problems. With the air being cooler, the water will condense on everything and keep your humidity near 100%. I had ice forming on all my polcarbonate...even froze the door closed so I couldn't get inside!</p>
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</blockquote> Kou go to youtube there are c…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-01-27:4778851:Comment:2841552012-01-27T16:18:50.941ZMichael Quinoneshttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/MichaelQuinones
<p>Kou go to youtube there are clips there explaining the concept even if you have some one else do it for you it would help you if you understand how it works. My hat is offf to the guys that put this stuff on youtube for us. <br></br> <br></br> <cite>Kou said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://aquaponicscommunity.com/forum/topics/geothermal-heating?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A284024&xg_source=msg_com_forum#4778851Comment284220"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>I guess I will have to…</p>
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<p>Kou go to youtube there are clips there explaining the concept even if you have some one else do it for you it would help you if you understand how it works. My hat is offf to the guys that put this stuff on youtube for us. <br/> <br/> <cite>Kou said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://aquaponicscommunity.com/forum/topics/geothermal-heating?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A284024&xg_source=msg_com_forum#4778851Comment284220"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>I guess I will have to find someone local to do it for me. I'm not very mechanical. That's what I get for going to law school!!!</p>
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</blockquote> I guess I will have to find s…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-01-27:4778851:Comment:2842202012-01-27T02:01:57.567ZKouhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/Kou
<p>I guess I will have to find someone local to do it for me. I'm not very mechanical. That's what I get for going to law school!!!</p>
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<p>I guess I will have to find someone local to do it for me. I'm not very mechanical. That's what I get for going to law school!!!</p>
<p></p> That makes sense,
Rob, I hav…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-01-27:4778851:Comment:2840242012-01-27T00:41:08.875ZJapan Aquaponics - アクアポニックス 日本https://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/JapanAquaponics
<p>That makes sense,</p>
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<p>Rob, I have just watched every one of your videos and they are fantastic - that is an amazing project and looks like it will be a fantastic setup once everything is completed. My hat off to you! </p>
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<p>Aragon.</p>
<p><br></br> <br></br> <cite>Rob Torcellini said:…</cite></p>
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<p>Rob, I have just watched every one of your videos and they are fantastic - that is an amazing project and looks like it will be a fantastic setup once everything is completed. My hat off to you! </p>
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<p>Aragon.</p>
<p><br/> <br/> <cite>Rob Torcellini said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://aquaponicscommunity.com/forum/topics/geothermal-heating?xg_source=activity&id=4778851%3ATopic%3A280023&page=2#4778851Comment283761"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>I jsut put a rocket mass heater in my greenhouse: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://youtu.be/_DhCRUMxnNM" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/_DhCRUMxnNM</a> It's working quite nicely so far!</p>
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<p>To answer the earlier question about heating the water instead of the air. You can heat the water to about the same temperature as the air. If you rely on all the heat for your greenhouse from the water, you will run into big problems. With the air being cooler, the water will condense on everything and keep your humidity near 100%. I had ice forming on all my polcarbonate...even froze the door closed so I couldn't get inside!</p>
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</blockquote> I have less than $100 in my r…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-01-26:4778851:Comment:2841152012-01-26T22:25:55.992ZJon Parrhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/JonParr
I have less than $100 in my rocket heater, and built it in one evening.<br></br>
The most expense was 5 sacks of mortar and a half sac of fireclay. The barrels, most of the furnace ducting, and a short length of triple wall stove pipe (for the interior chimney), were all scrounged. <br></br>
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I have less than $100 in my rocket heater, and built it in one evening.<br/>
The most expense was 5 sacks of mortar and a half sac of fireclay. The barrels, most of the furnace ducting, and a short length of triple wall stove pipe (for the interior chimney), were all scrounged. <br/>
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<cite>Kou said:</cite><blockquote cite="http://aquaponicscommunity.com/forum/topics/geothermal-heating?id=4778851%3ATopic%3A280023&page=2#4778851Comment283811"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>You're amazing!!</p>
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<p>How much do you charge for building the Rocket Mass Heater?</p>
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</blockquote> Rob, great video. I just fini…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-01-26:4778851:Comment:2840142012-01-26T22:18:34.004ZJon Parrhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/JonParr
Rob, great video. I just finished a rocket heater for my room as well. I built my combustion chamber from an 8" 90 deg duct inside an open-topped barrel, right-side up, then filled the bottom of the barrel with mortar and fire clay. Though it wasn't my intention, it is portable. The exit duct is cut in the side if the barrel, about 6" off the floor. I then put a closed top barrel on top of the first, with a barrel clamp exactly like you did, and I use the upper barrel to heat fish tank water.…
Rob, great video. I just finished a rocket heater for my room as well. I built my combustion chamber from an 8" 90 deg duct inside an open-topped barrel, right-side up, then filled the bottom of the barrel with mortar and fire clay. Though it wasn't my intention, it is portable. The exit duct is cut in the side if the barrel, about 6" off the floor. I then put a closed top barrel on top of the first, with a barrel clamp exactly like you did, and I use the upper barrel to heat fish tank water. The exhaust duct is 6" single wall furnace pipe, and I will run it horizontally for about 20' thru my greenhouse, surrounded by a 10" pipe with a fan forcing room air between the 6" and the 10" pipe counterflow to the smoke. I don't have any thermal mass, other than the water, and I'm bummed about that. I would have prefered to bury the pipe under the floor as you have done, but the floor is existing concrete, and I'm lazy.<br/>
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Nice job. I'm also building a second greenhouse, and opted to heat using a wood gasifier. There are two 4" flexible ducts cast into the concrete. One is to cool the syngas on the way to the generator, and the other is to cool the engine exhaust before exiting the slab, harvesting heat both ways, and supplying electricity for growlights (and my entire house and probably feed the grid, too)<br/>
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Also, I intend to exhaust both the rocket heater and the generator near an air intake, to provide a CO2 boost back into the GH I have thought of an ordanary…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-01-26:4778851:Comment:2839792012-01-26T20:45:59.250ZJohn Wrotenhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/JohnWroten
<p>I have thought of an ordanary thermost. The actuartor arm has limiting switches in it, so I can leave the power on each way it runs. If I can set the thermostat to close a relay to provide DC curent one way to open the vent, and when the air temp gets cool, then the thernostat closes another relay that would reverse the DC to close the vent. Just a thought, but not on the drawing board yet. I'm still just opening and closing the door for cooling now. I am busy trying to get a couple of IBC…</p>
<p>I have thought of an ordanary thermost. The actuartor arm has limiting switches in it, so I can leave the power on each way it runs. If I can set the thermostat to close a relay to provide DC curent one way to open the vent, and when the air temp gets cool, then the thernostat closes another relay that would reverse the DC to close the vent. Just a thought, but not on the drawing board yet. I'm still just opening and closing the door for cooling now. I am busy trying to get a couple of IBC totes ready and set up for the coming spring planting in my basment.</p>
<p>Thanks Vlad. ...John<br/><cite>Vlad Jovanovic said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://aquaponicscommunity.com/forum/topics/geothermal-heating?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A284003&xg_source=msg_com_forum#4778851Comment284003"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>John, this is an Arduino UNO ($28.00USD I think) and a DHT11 temp sensor ($2.50 or $3.50 I can't recall) and a run of the mill bread board for testing out circuits...My relays (not pictured were real cheap too). I have absolutely no experience in physical computing, and no knowledge of any of the C languages (C, C+, C++,C# et. al). But within the first day (and well into the night hehe) I was able to get temp and humidity readings, and turn a mains power, lamp and a small motor on and off with the help of a relay...</p>
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<p>The wiring up is pretty str8 forward (you'll need some resistors from Radio Shack or wherever, should be under a dollar)...the programming (for me) is the hardest part. Though luckily for us Arduino is an open source platform, and there is an automation group here on this site that might be willing to help you out with the programming part of it. There are also tons of people on the net sharing their projects and 'programming libraries'. There are also good tutorials on-line to help you out with the basics.</p>
<p>You should be able to, when a given temp (determined by you) is reached by the sensor, to actuate the 'forward' button through your relay, same with 'reverse' at a value you input. DC is going to be a bit different from AC so make sure you keep that in mind. (Turning things on DC is no problem, turning them off properly needs to be given special consideration as there is no "zero crossing point" like with AC, and you could fuse your relay together after some time due to the electric arc, but this too is 'easily' remedied. IDK might be worth a try...</p>
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