Hello folks, not piped up for a while been busy - but regards to Keith, Midori and everyone, hope you are all doing well!!
I have searched the archive but I think I may not be using the right keywords or too many keywords resulting in lots of wvo references etc - I've searched the net but all I get is companies selling general services & a small handful advertising what I'm after but as you'd expect they don't provide diagrams.... What I'm trying to do is set up a solar heat collector for hot water, a wood burner stove with back boiler to run space heating & hot water if there is no available solar & a condensing combi gas boiler as a backup. Sounds simple, of sorts, when you first look at it - bit of extra pipework, a couple of extra copper tanks, a few motorised valves, a controller..... But it's not that simple - a combi boiler system is pressurised, but a gravity fed system isn't. How can the two be combined in a seamless "hands free" manor? Does anyone have any good links, ideas or diagrams for such a system, or anything close. I know it is feasible because I have seen companies selling duel / triple fuel source systems. As far as the controller goes, a great friend of mine is a computer / electronics genius (he used to work for IBM) I mentioned the kind of controller I'd need & he said it would be a doddle to build it, & he'd be glad to do so. If any of you are interested in that & depending on how I manage to progress with the project we would both be more than willing to share that technology, however it is early days. I hope someone can help - my brain is in knots with it now!!! Lol Take care all Malcolm _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
