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    Back-up baseboard heaters

    Thanks for your answer, so putting the heaters away from the cold envelope of the building should mostly have an effect of air stratification. I am also wondering about the radiation effect of the heaters since they are encased and their outer surface is not hot. Do you think the main heating...
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    Back-up baseboard heaters

    Thanks, can you explain why they should be on the outside walls? I am not planning more than 3 or 4 kW on a 240V circuit and there will be no other load except a 7cuft freezer in the cold cellar during the operation as the house will be empty. It's just to keep the house from freezing so...
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    Back-up baseboard heaters

    Hello! I want to install baseboard heaters as back-up to my wood range. At the moment I only have the range and it is more than enough to heat our 1½ story 21'x32'x7' Cape Cod house. For a while I had installed a 15 kBTU (or was it kW?) propan space heater but it didn't see much use and...
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    Tempering domestic water from wood heated tank

    I hope this is the right forum for my question: I heat my water with a wood stove just installed this year. The stove is located on the first floor, the 180 l tank just above it on the second floor. The water gets too hot for safe use at the taps. The winter has not started yet and I already...
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    Hot water from wood stove coil

    It took me a little while to find the way to reduce my pdf file. I hope it is legible.
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    Hot water from wood stove coil

    I am planning a hot water system from a coil in a wood stove to complement the electric heating of a hot water tank. See attached sketch. (How can I attach a 370 KB PDF file ?!) Water comes from a shallow dug well through a 1/2HP jet pump. Cycling of the pump is regulated by a 20...
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