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Old 06-01-2013, 02:15 PM   #121
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One of the prizes I found on our surplus excursion was a fantastic fan and motor with out the housing. Since I wanted to use the roof escape hatch it was just the thing.

Finished and mounted.



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Nice job on the fan install!!!
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Old 06-01-2013, 05:03 PM   #123
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very nice job on the fan install
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Oooh! Nice!

I'm going to file that idea away for future reference.
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One of the prizes I found on our surplus excursion was a fantastic fan and motor with out the housing. Since I wanted to use the roof escape hatch it was just the thing.

Finished and mounted.



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Fan open for access to open hatch.



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Great idea. I will be borrowing this one.
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Looks great! Really nice work.
I want a roof hatch now.
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Yippeeee, Since it's now warm out I figured I had better look into getting the boiler problems solved. The water leak that I thought was going to be a major pain to fix turned out to be stupidity on my part. I forgot to crimp one of the PEX clamps. On my first tries to fire the boiler last winter I kept getting an overheat fault code. This is usually due to poor water circulation, I rigged up a switch to manually torn on the water pump and added a bleed valve. I had thought that my original design wouldn't need a bleed valve, but it did the trick. I had heard that some people had an objection to the noise. The unit I have has a high and low, depending on water temp. While on start up and high it is some what noisy outside. Inside, even without a wall between me and it, I can hardly hear it run. On the low setting, outside it's quieter than many LP RV waters, inside you can hardly hear it. My exhaust goes out the top so the noise is high. Even on high it's no problem carrying on a normal conversation right beside the exhaust. My system used two heat exchangers. one for domestic hot water and the other is to get/send warm water from the engine. My domestic water was warm after about 10 minutes. Now I can seriously start work on the plumbing for the radiant heat.
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Yippeeee, Since it's now warm out I figured I had better look into getting the boiler problems solved. The water leak that I thought was going to be a major pain to fix turned out to be stupidity on my part. I forgot to crimp one of the PEX clamps. On my first tries to fire the boiler last winter I kept getting an overheat fault code. This is usually due to poor water circulation, I rigged up a switch to manually torn on the water pump and added a bleed valve. I had thought that my original design wouldn't need a bleed valve, but it did the trick. I had heard that some people had an objection to the noise. The unit I have has a high and low, depending on water temp. While on start up and high it is some what noisy outside. Inside, even without a wall between me and it, I can hardly hear it run. On the low setting, outside it's quieter than many LP RV waters, inside you can hardly hear it. My exhaust goes out the top so the noise is high. Even on high it's no problem carrying on a normal conversation right beside the exhaust. My system used two heat exchangers. one for domestic hot water and the other is to get/send warm water from the engine. My domestic water was warm after about 10 minutes. Now I can seriously start work on the plumbing for the radiant heat.

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Old 06-24-2013, 01:39 PM   #129
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Hey Somewhere,

I see that you are using a Hydronic boilerfor hot water. Are you using it to heat the buss too? My bus has the 45,000 btu Webasto hydronic boiler, I want to use it to heat water, bus and engine for cold starts. I following Technomadia and want to use one gas source. Staying away from porpane.
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Old 06-24-2013, 04:15 PM   #130
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I see that you are using a Hydronic boilerfor hot water. Are you using it to heat the buss too? My bus has the 45,000 btu Webasto hydronic boiler, I want to use it to heat water, bus and engine for cold starts. I following Technomadia and want to use one gas source. Staying away from porpane.
I too am going for only one fuel. Hydronic for domestic hot water and heat. I have a heat exchanger between engine and boiler to get heat from engine while I'm driving. A marine hot water heater is 110v or an internal heat exchanger to get hot water from the boiler. Heat will be infloor as well as a separate heat/fan unit in each room. I don't have the heat in yet that's what I am working on now.
I did test fire the boiler and had warm domestic water in about 10 min. Not enough to use, but noticiblly warm. I had HOT water in about half an hour.
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Woohoo, I have heat. I know it's the wrong time of year for that. I finally got the first loop plumbed, sending hot water through the original heater core plus an extra one I added specifically aimed at the drivers feet. The boiler I have is an Espar Hydronic 10. It has 2 stages, when the water temp get above a certain level it goes to idle until the temp drops below a preset level then the burner increases again. I haven't been able to find what the temps are, but the outlet of the boiler runs about 106 degrees F. Temp drop in the entire loop is about 4 degrees. Since it's 70 here today, I'm sure the temp drop will be greater when it's colder, and also when I get the other three loops installed. I had originally planned on four zones with the front heaters tied into the front room, each room controlled by a thermostat. I changed that so that the original heat loop is controlled manually with switches on the drover console. The front living and kitchen will be on the second loop. There is a forced air as well as in floor heat. The living room and kitchen will be on the same loop. The bathroom and bedroom will each be on their own separately controlled loop Next step is to get cabinet framing done so that I can finish the heating plumbing.
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My Webasto has a Surewire Water board I can get for it. This allows for four zones controlled by separated thermostats. There is a hook up for a hot water heater and one for engine heating. These are used on board boats. My bus will be my land yacht.

I plan to use forced air for my main living area and bedroom. The third I might do like you did and use radiant floor in my bathroom. I also plan a heat ex-changer between engine and boiler to heat while driving. Looks like we will have a similar setup. I look forward to see how your install comes along.
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Old 07-15-2013, 04:04 PM   #133
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It isn't trimmed out yet, but here's a view of the computer desk. Still a lot of work to do, but this is one of those aaaaah moments when it actually looks like I'm getting something done.



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wow pretties....and shiney.... awesome
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WOW, you do great work.
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Just beautiful!!!
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Dick, how many of those beautiful dogs do have now?
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Just the two now, I no longer have any livestock. Kate is just a pet, and starting to show some age. Molly is trained, but I haven't been traveling as much and don't get as many places for her to do any work. The possibly when the bus gets done, she'll get to do some work again.
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beautiful work, you onto trim work yet?
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Finally got the monitor stands built and the keyboard drawers done. I wanted a stand that was adjustable and also sturdy enough to not bounce. These are much more stable than any I had found, and much lexs expensive.



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This wasn't the original plan. Everything was going to be on the desk. But, since it is mounted over the front wheel well, it would have been uncomfortable sitting at the computers for any length of time. I like this even better, plenty of leg room while working and the keyboard and mouse can stay here while traveling. That had been a problem in the past in the setup I had in the trailer. There will eventually be a door in front of the keyboard drawers that folds down, That is the kind of extras that will come in phase II. Mumsywumsy says we need a shower before she will go anywhere. Now, I guess I'll also have to get that second computer looked at, It died sometime at the last event. I haven't quite figured out a resting place for the monitor for computer three. Probably on wall above this one, I only have to see it once in a while, and then just to hit an enter key.
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