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RE: Off-Grid: Wood Stove Top Boiler and Standard Garden Hose Connectors
Thats great... i haven't seen this before.... It's almost like a backboiler, but on top and easily removeable and manageable.
Is this a back-up or your main hot water system supply?
How often do you have to clean out the mesh metal filter?
This is the main winter cabin hot water system, outdoor rocket stove boiler for spring fall and summer. Propane burners and pots and pans are the backup. I clean the mesh out once a week at the most, but when it's already screened rain water going in there, then maybe once a month. Putting snow in the boiler has the most bits of trees in it. That's the main cleaning-water boiler for the cabin. A bath uses the most, about 3/4 of the water in it, and it has to cool first. Next year i'll have a separate containment for cooled off, pre boiled rain water, so i'll have hot and cold taps. It's pretty handy on top of the stove, other than for baths, we'll just dip a big bowl in the top for quick cleaning hot water. There is an added bonus that overnight the full hot boiler slowly radiates the retained heat :)