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This unit is made the same way a oil boiler is made. The electrodes use a very high voltage . Do not open the unit when plugged in .

Good work, thanks

Working like it should knocking off circuit breakers !! Job security!!

For years I've been using a 3hp 3phase motor to run my 11/2 hp 3phase mill. The idler motor gets 120 volts through a knife switch to two of its legs. Two legs of 120 is fed to two legs on the mill, and the third leg from the idler motor feeds power to the third leg on the mill. To start the idler motor, I kick start the shaft which has a small pulley on it and flip the knife switch. This feeds power to the mill and it's ready to go. Any idea of how I'd wire in a capacitor to start the idler motor so I don't have to kick start it?

Great video! Ingenious! We’ll done! @millgapfarms

I wouldn’t be using a heater like this in an enclosed building. Over time you will be poisoned by Carbon Monoxide which accumulates in the body faster than it dissipates.

Nice and simple to the point great job. 🙌☯️🙏

Maybe try a sonic parts cleaner on the nozzle, not saying it would work but maybe🤔

It's the start of something amazing!

Good video but no need to do near that to change nozzle, get a 5 gallon bucket to sit the whole assembly on, take 1 support bracket bolt out below the control panel, the 4 bolts at cone and your done, no need to unhook anything, takes 2 minutes...

2K no thanks I can put a furnace for that

Kerosene is the best

Would it be any easier to just take the front perforated cover off of the unit and reach inside to swap out the nozzle?

Brilliant, absolutely f**ken brilliant. You have single-handedly sorted and saved me a lot of trouble and money. Thanks

A baffle / shelf over the chimney is a good idea. So is a baffle over the top of the burn pot. The swirl / tornado is beneficial because it gets the combustion to stay in the pot a little longer. A baffle around the top of the top (like a donut) with a 7-8 inch hole in the centre would work even better.

Not to be picky, and perhaps you addressed this in later videos, but more air is not always cleaner. At a certain poing, the excess air will start to cool the flame and make more smoke. When inspecting / testing oil burning furnaces, this is one of the things that you check for "excess air" and the more excess air you have, the less efficient your burner gets.

After I saw the price, I fell out of love with it...

When I first started watching, I was enthusiastic about the heater - until I saw the smoke. Then I figured "well, I'll find something out" so I started watching. That machine, which is basically an old furnace oil burner, is NOT made for maintenance - the destruction of the asbestos gasket during disassembly/reassembly was only part of the proof. The wrestling to get the nozzle and electrode assembly out through an opening too small for a nozzle and electrode assembly was the frosting on the cake. I don't know who designed that, but I'm not sure he's qualified to design a french fry. Back when I was a kid, we had an old coal-fired steam furnace that was converted to oil, and over the years, oil burners at several other houses. I used to watch the service man adjust the electrodes, clean the filter, replace the nozzles, ask how to check the flame and set the air/fuel mixture, etc. and talk to them about what they were doing. Of course, those burners were exposed, so it only took about 5 minutes to service - 20 minutes if you had a nosy kid asking questions. It got to the point that I could do it pretty fast myself - I was about 12, I think, the first time I had to fix it. Even when we bought a new Beckett, which was pretty nice, I still thought that there had to be a better idea than fuel oil, which both stunk (you could taste the diesel on your tongue if you got it on your hands) and - if the electrodes burned up after a really cold winter so that the spark would falter and be slow to ignite the spray, would light off an explosion in the exhaust pipe and blow it off the wall, filling the cellar with diesel smoke until you ran down and shut it off. You learned real quick not to press the reset button more than once if the burner wasn't firing. Air locked fuel lines from the oil tank were a real pain if you ran out. I switched to natural gas about 10 years ago and I've never been happier, but at least the old burners were pretty easy to fix and adjust. A diesel shop heater with that crippled maintenance design is probably not going to be on my "must have" list any time soon. Good video! Thanks!

What they don’t tell you can’t start them with dynamite when it’s very cold they will totally make you lose your mind don’t waste your money if you live in cold area

Wow Thats ALOT of WORK to clean those nozzles ..... Should have a much better and EASIER way to do that , for what these Heaters cost !

I have blocked your channel, you are still in the stone age.

In our country, we do not use capasitors, we use 400V 3 phase current, except for very small motors, less then 1/3 hp.

Great system, might try burying those lines between the house and the compost pile.

HUMMM 4 YEARS AND ONLY HAVE TO DO THAT PRETTY DANG GOOD.LOOKS LIKE ITS PAID FOR IT SELF MANY TIMES.

Don't use diesel it seems diesel is what's clogging all these up

Can you make single phase to 3 phase rotary phase converter sir?

How long do the nosssels last?

I did exactly as suggested on an old table saw i have. I had a capacitor that was about 10% larger than the one i pulled out, so i went ahead and installed it. Yep, that motor went from lackluster to maintaining RPM with ease in 1/2" ply.

I’m here for the comments….😂. So many code violations.

Do you use any filters on the pressure in line? Normally the filter goes on the suction side of a blower system

You can get an electrode adjuster from Aqua hot.

The effect of using one half of a stereo microphone.

Nice practical furnace....... Real world. 😎👍👍

The cleanliness of these types of heaters is critical. No one ever cleans the fan and on high efficiency heaters it critical.

Thanks a lot! Will save me a lot of money.

Anyone ever try alittle diesel cleaner to tank it for injector clean. I bet alittle splash in tank would keep the spray nozzle clean so u dont have to replace every 1 year to 2 years.

Cyndrillical capacitors?? That's a new word to me😁👍

Yeah it built like an old oil furnace. but you we just can’t build it like an oil furnace. You gotta tear it all apart to get at that stuff. Are you sure this wasn’t made in China seems about their speed. an oil furnace you could slide that right out the back and repair the nozzles without an issue.

i bought one of these when I was in high school in 1972 for $92. It got used a lot. Has sit outside it's entire life and still works like new. I did put new and longer leads on it a few years ago.

i got one of theses. the 120000 btu for my shop of 40 by 60 and it dont warm it like i thought it would. i can sit in a chair in front of it for two hours and it just dont heat that good. my brother and i can sit 8 feet away and its not warm. very disappionted in it. but it dont smoke and thats nice. but for 2500 dollares its not that good.

Very nice video,definitely made up my mind which on I’m buying !

So are these capacitors in series or parallel? If in parallel then total capacitance is doubled. If in series, then it is halved, but the voltage rating is doubled. You didn't make that clear. Series capacitors should have equalising resistors.

I built a 30hp RPC back in 1980, before the internet, with no info available other than an old guy had an old diy 5hp unit in his garage. I did a lot of guessing but figured it out. The 30hp motor was wired for 440 but I fed it 220. I used a 1/3hp 'pony motor' to spin up the 30hp motor. Run caps to balance voltage. It worked! I went to 3 different electric motor shops to ask them questions, and then tell them I got it working. They all said IT WILL NEVER WORK and "you're crazy that's impossible". Goes to show what happens when 'smart' people don't ever think out of the box.

Thank you. Short, simple and factual. Glen M

Most caps have a percent rating: for instance 5%+/-. so motor can take about a 5 percent over or under when replacing caps.

Ten years ago I had a pair of 110 dc motors on 100 ton jacks. No local electrician or motor service could help. When I got them they ran at slightly different speeds…trying to jack railroad cars level to service the wheels etc. Blew one capacitor discovering the rectifier was wired backwards. Guessing values and ordering capacitors from Digikey…nailed it. Matching pair of 100 ton jacks running even up. And down. Love the knowledge sharing 110 tickles 220 hurts 480’ll kill ya

I had a motor failing because the run cap died open circuit, man it was hummin and buzzing really weird and did not even run, it was screaming hot too. since I been working at the job for 19 years now I knew how this motor sounds like it was my own thoughts. I figure the sound was not the same so I went up and cut the power before it burned out, The oil cap had literally zero picofarads left in it. replaced the cap and it works fine again. This was like 3 years ago now

Have a old bridgeport on the farm.Not sure if its a delta or wye have it wire for low voltage going to get capictor and relay see if i can fire her up Thanks

Could you show a good pic of the relay used Thanks

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