Bootneck
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Thinking of getting one of these in an off grid barn conversion I'm doing. Anyone got one or know about them?
Eco angus Wood fired boiler
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tommy tucker
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Don't do it. I've been feeding one all winter after our chip boiler caught fire and it is massive burden. They are also poorly designed and in my opinion not very efficient. I feel qualified to make these comments as I've used a pre rhi farm 2000 for twenty years to heat my parents house and despite the Eco Angus being over twice the rated output I reckon the farm 2000 generates more heat, albeit without the payments.
ISCO
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- North East
We have 80 kw boiler with 4000 litre buffer tank heating 2 farm houses . Works very well. Simple machine with good backup.
ISCO
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- North East
Yes we have found the bars that dangle in heat exchangers stick afterca while and need to clean them.out. Not too much of a job though.
What do you use to clean out.
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- North Staffordshire
Hi,
Ecoangus wood/log boilers are of a good quality in my opinion and there is good technical back-up and good parts supply here in the UK.
We are an installer of biomass boilers including wood chip, pellet and logs and can supply a number of log boilers including Ecoangus. We can help with the design and installation so if you are interested to take this further please call me on 07475 829 151 or email at [email protected]
Kind regards
Richard Sayers
REC Renewable Energy
if you go to kotly.com.pl you can get them, they are a robust boiler and they do what they are supposed to do. the only issue is the heat exchanger cleaning is poor and you have to strip them down and hone them out on a regular basis, we use a honing tool for our customers boilers that is a mass of small coil springs, when attached to a drill gets the carbon off,
Have had an Orligno 80kw going for 7 years now and haven't cleaned the heat exchanger once. I make sure I use the lever at the back every day and it is very important to use dry wood. It does use quite a bit of wood and is a big job to to cut, split, store and then load the boiler but the upside is that I am on non domestic RHI currently 9.92p/kwh. Only another 13 years of inflation linked payments to go!!
Can you advise on what honing tool to use to carry out job please
freedom green energy sell a kit, it does various sizes, just attach them to a drill, "do not run the drill in reverse"
if you want to see what you are getting look at ibhs.co.uk, page 299 of their online catalogue.
the eco angus boilers are ok but they require intensive heat exchanger cleaning on a regular basis due to the turbulators being of poor design/fit/travel
if you want to see what you are getting look at ibhs.co.uk, page 299 of their online catalogue.
the eco angus boilers are ok but they require intensive heat exchanger cleaning on a regular basis due to the turbulators being of poor design/fit/travel
Thanks, have used boiler for 7 years, have cleaned tubes several times with a tool with 2 wires in it. Can be time consuming but doesnt remove all carbon. Will have a look at the tool you use.
Thanks
I have a 80kw Eco-Angus, it’s been running for 11 and a half years and I have cleaned the heat exchanger tubes 3 times. What I have found works best is a hole saw of the correct diameter ( I think it’s 44mm) on a threaded bar attached to a cordless drill, it sings through the carbon buildup!
id be terrified of a hole saw cutting into the tube myself and causing a water leak in a very difficult place to repair.
the solar bayer is also a very good boiler, like the eco angus it is just a box with a fan, but where the solar bayer wins is that the heat exchanger is designed not to require turbulators, they have more surface area to compensate for lack of turbulators. this makes them very easy to clean, if the eco angus gets the turbulators stuck they really are a pain to get out and you have to remove every one independently, they have a clevis pin and split pin to remove on every one, and on the 130kw that's a lot.
We maintain many Eco Angus boilers and if you store the split wood in the dry warm shed that the boiler is in for at least one year before you burn it you will never have to clean the turbulators other than using the cleaning handle daily. Tar is the product of incomplete combustion caused by low woodgas burn temperatures due to high moisture content.
Even willow? Used to have terrible trouble with my parents solid fuel Rayburn, although partly that was because the chimney didn't draw very well. It went better if the wind was in a particular direction. About the only wood we have on this farm is willow, hawthorn and blackthorn.
One i went to service had turbulators, also had a similar size bore in the heat exchangers as an angus.
we have a lot of customers who have eco angus boilers, they are well constructed boilers and they do what they are supposed to, if you are not too fussy with the quality of wood you put in them then you will suffer, on the 130kw there are well over 40 turbulators and by the time we get there they are well and truly stuck, each one requires the split pin and clevis removed and drawn out, usually by hand is enough with a hook to attach, but sometimes you have to attach a puller and draw out each one, this ends up a full days job for a man and a boy, the design of the turbulators is very poor, they are there to clean the heat exchanger but more importantly they are there to slow down the hot gases so as to give the heat time to get in to the water jacket. all they have done is take a length of strip steel and put a twist in it from each end, it would not have taken much more effort to construct a design of a multi turn coil spring with each coil spacing less than the overall up and down travel of the cleaning mechanism, this would ensure a better cleaning of the tubes,