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Originally Posted by stusnyder
We have a heat pump, but when it gets real cold, we fire up our harman magnafire coal stove. It's self feed, wall mount thermostat control. Has harmans version of the coal - trol. When the thermostat is not calling for heat, the feeder stops for 10 minutes, then runs for 2 minutes, and continues like that untill the thermostat calls for heat, then the feed kicks on full bore.
Keeps the house within 2 degrees of the thermostat setting. It uses rice coal. the hopper hold 100 pounds.
Our prices are a bit cheaper than yours. We are right in the heart of anthracite country. And you never see nothing out of the chimney, just heat waves.
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Great to hear it ! I'm sure the stuff I use comes from there !
My stove I made myself, it's in it's 5th iteration, each rebuild makes it a little
more efficient. And it's made as a furnace, not an actual stove. It has provisions
to make it automatic, but right now it's manual feed, with appliance timers
running all the fans. Same as the air handler, timer over-ride so I can
have the coal stove heat the house or solar, and the coils stay off...
No smoke here either, you can't tell when it's on by any smell, just when
you start it with wood first off....
As mine is manual, I can use any size coal, last year the local guy ran out of
rice, I generally use nut, he has it, they all seem to have nut pretty abundantly.
Funny note: Watched the Honeymooners last night, Norton and Ralph took a
civil service exam, one question was about math and heating, and they gave
coal cost at $15./ton..... Ralph made $62./week as a Dus Briver....(another episode)
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