Hot Water Part 2: The old fashioned way

Installing the Stove and Range boiler as a tempering tank.

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[WestKentuckyPrepper1]

what in the world is that black dot in the middle of the sun?

[engineer775]

@WestKentuckyPrepper1 A sunspot? EMP? JK It is my cheap FLIP camera!

[Iam1uglyguy]

Looks like a cool place.

[engineer775]

@Iam1uglyguy It is! That is why it needs hot water! Sorry bro!

[bnsnid]

Make sure to add a check valve in, above your primary waterheater on your inlet if you install a circ. pump. Above the T.



[1kenziesmom]

do you have to use the water heater and a tank what is the purpose of the extra tank is there a reason you cant run it directly to the water heater it seems like the trip to the extra tank would cool it off im sorry im new to this and id like to have this set up in my house along with solar i just dont want to mess it up

[johnnnyreb51]

A windmill with a water tank above the system intake would greatly simplify the system. I do however see how the system works. It just seems a little too complicated to me.

[BryanJ026]

@engineer775 sun looks pretty kewl with the black spot

[ShaneGorter]

My Dad has a similar set up preheating the water along side the furnace. It has nearly eliminated the propane hot water bill during the winter. Next were thinking vacuum tube solar hot water, if you haven't seen one in action I was shocked at how well they work. We were thinking of putting in a transfer valve to the preheat tank going from the furnace coil while were heating with wood to solar hot water during the warmer part of the year. Eliminating the hot water bill can save a lot of $.

[tom11510]

Cont: I rolled a copper coil and set it into the water filled tank. That pre-heated the incoming water going to the water heater. My concern was overheating the water in the coil. My solution was to keep the side tank open and full of water. I was able to keep my breaker off to the water heater most of the winter.

Your install looked a lot better than mine!

[tom11510]

You may want to add a pan under the tank in the loft. If it leaks it will make a mess. Many codes now require a pan under water heater tanks.

I did a similar installation around 1980. It worked great. The stove was in my utility room near the electric water heater. Difference was I welded a flat, rectangular tank on the rear of the stove that I kept full of water.

[charlesburton95]

Black hole sun,

won't you come?

And wash away the rain!

[treebytheseafarms]

Do you have any ideas about what to do if you make TOO much hot water? I know the popoff will keep things safe, but I don't want to waste the water or the heat or have the popoff cycling all the time. I would rather pull the heat out and put it into a secondary heat storage mass, but don't want it too complicated.

[cblazer]

is there a pressure difference between the attic/loft tank to the cold supply going into the electric water heater, would one have more pressure than the other?