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manfredo

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We "had" a wood fireplace & it was horribly inefficent. Then we tore off all the siding on the house, sealed all openings, new tyvek, doors, windows & siding plus an additional 18" of blown in insulation in the attic. The damn fireplace wouldn't draft worth a hoot even with the internal draft wide open so we dry walled the thing up & called it good. :finger:
Mine has a insert with a blower I put in back 18 years ago, with a 6" stainless steel liner up the chimney. It works a lot better than an open fireplace but they still are not very efficient. It is nice sitting in front of a fire, but propane is dirt cheap around here now. I could always put the wood burner back in when the world ends!! if things change. The wood is soooo dusty/dirty!!
 

sarahJane211

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Awesome - Thanks!
Are you running a single inverter or micro inverters on each panel?
I'm using Suoer GTIs, I have a 600w one with 2 panels already up for a year, and I've bought a 1000w for these 3 panels ($100).
They can take 2/3/4 panels connected in parallel, as long as you don't exceed the maximum power it doesn't seem to matter.
$400 get me 3 units a day of electricity (worth 50c), so after 800 days I'll be getting free electricity.
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BudmanTX

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well morning everyone.....coffee is hot and ready to go.....83F now, south gulf wind coming in, still gonna hit the century mark here....seems like no relief from this till October...ugh....

gotta walk the dogs real quick so they can do they're doggie duties, then off to the plasma place for a donation.....
 

Bareback

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We "had" a wood fireplace & it was horribly inefficent. Then we tore off all the siding on the house, sealed all openings, new tyvek, doors, windows & siding plus an additional 18" of blown in insulation in the attic. The damn fireplace wouldn't draft worth a hoot even with the internal draft wide open so we dry walled the thing up & called it good. :finger:
I’m using a Hearthstone soapstone stove it heats 2400sf with ease. I replaced a shitty majestic insert, best 10k I ever spent.
 

raratt

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For me the wood was a lot of work, consumed a inordanate amount of my time & I always left a trail of spruce bark & "shit" through the house.

Momma was the driving factor in deleting it.
My wife won't have a fireplace because of growing up with 90% wood heating with a wood stove all her life. Her family rarely used the propane central heat, due to the price. Always fun being the first one up and having to start a fire to warm up.
 
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