Member BiggKidd
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So much of that depends on you and what your end goal is. Many of us want to do it all ourselves with little or no oversite from any gov. entity and incurring as little tax as possible. A lot of that depends on what you already know and your ability to learn and adapt. People’s minds work in different ways some just have an understanding or feeling of how certain things work without any training / schooling. Some people just flat don’t hold the ability to learn certain things. Like me and languages.
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Oh thank the Lord my batteries are here. Between these and my new Mass TEG I’ll be in high cotton!
Bonus good news I just found the GFCI tripped on the 2000W inverter I thought was toast when I went to unhook it. It’s fine! I had no idea the hardwired circuit also went through the GFCI for the plugs!
My tires are also ready to be picked up, which will have to wait for morning as I have lots to do!
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First real round of testing two modules blew my expectations clean outa the water. 6.7 volts and 1.75 amps at 300f. Now that’s just two modules there will be 36 to 40 wired in series per square foot if things go according to plan. That should be better than 100 watts per square foot anytime the stove is up to temp!
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Wait for now, no sense in feeding a bull at this point.
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I’ve done similar, resistive loads aren’t picky about volts or amps. They do work best at whatever V or A if the resistance is matched.
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Stove top is up close to 100f so I cut the pump on. It’s making a whopping 0.95 volts. lol Anyone want to guess how many volts and amps 2 modules wired in series will provide at working temperature? Target temperature is 250f on the hot side and 60-80f on the cold side.
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Testing has begun, sort of. LoL Not sure how long I’ll last. The one plate with the two test modules is plumbed and wired and the stove is burning!
BTW I’m already beat so testing will likely be cut short tonight unless my second wind kicks in.
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Congress / the powers that be are SCARED they know the people are tired of their crap but they are in to deep to change now. They know if things don’t change the people are going to stand up and take our country back while kicking them to the curb and set things back the way they were meant to be. So they are doing everything they can imagine to stop us before we start. All they need do is do what the people have hired them to do and stop doing everything we the people are against. Either they get with the program or…………………………………
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Out of curiosity I blew all the water out of the floor pipe and measured the amount. Looks like my estimated 2-300 feet was off a fair amount. Either that or there was an air pocket somewhere. But I have one more chance to check it when I refill it with with the water antifreeze mixture. According to the numbers I have so far the floor has 150 feet of 1/2 PEX pipe. Which is actually still a little much for a floor that size. According to the info I have found on radiant floor heat you want 1 linear foot of pipe for every square foot of floor. This floor is 120 square feet… My pump is also a bit fast at 2gpm the flooring info says you want .6gpm. Haven’t been able to find ANY info on what kind of flow rate the module plates want which is why I am going by the floor radiant heat numbers………..
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Got several more hours working on this project today. Got some more of the plumbing done. Made a couple scrap wood shelves since there is no room to sit anything at all in such a tiny space. Also got a weather wall built on the backside of the unit itself to keep water & wind out. Still want to build one on the other side. So thankful for my scrap piles and all their useful junk! Found an old 4 or 5 hinged panel garage door amongst my scrap so even the west side may get closed in with that. Of course it’ll have to become a braced one movement door, hinging either up or down as a single section. Also put a movable step in front of the firebox since after digging it down I’m not tall enough to work inside the top (module) area.
Only a little more to do until I am actually ready for testing. A little wiring and a little more plumbing. I may go back out later and work on it more if I don’t crash first…
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This is nutty as heck. Yesterday I cut the stove off fairly early at 200f because I wasn’t ready for the next step. I just went out to start hooking up the pump and stuff to test the lifter plate and 2 of the modules. What I managed to so was burn myself, no worries nothing at all bad just highly unexpected, call it more of an attention getter. Anyway the stove is up a little over 250f here some 20 odd hours later. I’m guessing the hotter heat from the firebox now under the stove was slowly absorbed in the mass of the stove. I expect having all it’s insulation back on / in place made some difference too. Now I’m a bit curious how long it will take to get back down around 100f? I could go and remove the insulation off the top but that would likely only affect the top surface temperature. Oh well plenty of other things I need to be doing anyway…
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Lots of trial and error along with plenty of curiosity!
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I’ve had several interesting failures that taught me what I need to know to succeed in the end.
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You get up to interesting things, I enjoy trying stuff too.
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Interesting make sure to post results.