[Stoves] 'Noise' level of producing the best stove

[Harmon Seaver]

On 6/15/06, AJH <list at sylva.icuklive.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:28:15 -0700, frank wrote:
>
> >Perhaps we need an auto mechanic in the group
> >and design a stove (perhaps only a research stove) using the sensors
> >like what a modern car uses to monitor exhaust, heat, water temperature,
> >CO, O2 CO2 and, using the same controllers a car uses, regulate the
> >inflow air, fuel, heat and whatever else it does based on these
> >readings.
>
> Modern woodchip, pellet and log gasifying furnaces already work closed
> loop like this. They tend to use wide band oxygen sensors and monitor
> water and exhaust temperature as well as flue oxygen, I have yet to
> encounter one with an air mass flow meter.
>

    Have you looked at the Kuenzel boilers? They have two different
control systems, both computer controlled, but one uses forced air,
and I'm not sure whether they use an air flow meter.
    But, anyway, Frank has a good idea there, the stickler for it,
however, is where do you get the chip? If someone could program a
single-board computer with a chip that did all that --- OTOH, someone
very well may have already done that. There was a recent discussion on
gas-l about computer controls, and when I started searching, I was
amazed at all the free (or copyleft) software there was for monitoring
A/D inputs.

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Harmon Seaver