Introducing Brand New Wood Furnace to Market - The Drolet Tundra!
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Mine is on 110 and it kicks off about 20 degrees below that for me this works great and usually has blower run for 7-8 hours
So basically I unhook the wire to my servo switch and tie in to the hot tub timer and the other wire on the timer now hooks to the servo switch terminal
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i never installed an adjustable before so stupid question time. IF you set the dial on the back at 110 that is the cut off temp for the blower? so the blower will actually turn on at 90 and shut down at 110? I was unsure if 110 opens the circuit or closes it.
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Nope, not that would be wiring it in series, not parallel. Both the switch AND the timer would have to have their contacts closed for the draft to open. That's a bad thing.
No internal wiring needs to be done. The override switch still functions if you choose to use it. Make the connections to the external thermostat terminals on the furnace.
You want to install the timer just like you would a thermostat. You can even use thermostat wire as it's 24V, not 120V. Polarity doesn't matter either. Just run one wire from one of the external terminals on the furnace, to one of the terminals on the timer, and the other wire from the other external terminal on the furnace to the other timer terminal. (just don't connect it to the ground terminal on the timer.)
If you have a thermostat already hooked up, no problem. just leave the wires where they are connected, and add the new wires. You will then have two wires on each external terminal on the furnace.
about 20" any longer gets tight any shorter and your wasting space.
I sent an email from the drolet site yesterday morning. Someone called me within 2 hours. Great customer service, I asked a lot of questions and he gave me some great ideas to look into to help extend my burn time. I actually had a few problems. One of my heat runs going to my back porch was dumping cold air into my plenum. I also installed a 3 inch pipe from outside to let fresh air into my basement room. And my black stove pipe didn't have 1/4 inch rise per foot. I fixed everything and got a easy 9 hour burn time. Filled it at 10pm and at 7am still coals and 1/2 a log left before I filled it again and this was burning green white ash. Maintained my house a perfect 68 all night.
newyorker
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How many full cords do you guys burn I understand the variables and its still a new furnace just kind of looking for guessstmits im trying to get ahead so I can have well seasoned wood I have about 5 fulls cords cut and stacked
I haven't had mine that long either, but from the sounds of it less than 5 cords a year easy.
newyorker
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I'm glad everything is working out for you I think I'm going to order a caddy next week only going with the caddy because I can get one for not to much more the tundra and there is a caddy dealer in my town which is a plus
I don't know much about the caddy just that I can't afford one, but I like my tundra.
I have mine hooked up too. I don't get 8 hour burns but I'm heating a large room plus my house. Does a good job once I get the room up in temp. Also I don't fill it full cause I burn only oak. Guess I'm getting use to the furnace. I tried changing the snap ththermo disk to a 130 -115 but it cycled to much and wasn't getting the heat so went back to the factory setting. Really like the furnace.
I've been burning oak also lately. If you want the burn times I'd fill it full, about an inch from burn tubes. I had a couple issues at first also with my burn time, but I emailed them and they called me right away and gave me lots of pointers.
issues I had with my duct work and with my black pipe not having any rise to it.
