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Why logs out of interest?

I can get them cheaply for a few years.... and I am sad and enjoy chopping wood.

Nothing wrong with that, I hope it is a log gasification boiler?
Much more efficient and should be eligible for RHI when and if it comes in. Obviously need an approved installer and approved kit but could be very worthwhile.

How do log gassification burners work?

Two stage combustion process, first the logs are burnt, releasing gases (gasification) which are then burnt in a second super insulated chamber. This gives less emissions, higher efficiencies, cleaner combustion and less ash production.

Some stoves/boilers do much the same, Bear. Two air entry points: one to the logs and one to the burning gases. Jotul do it just by having air entering the top and bottom of the door thus achieving over 75% efficiency.

Log gasification should be up near the 90% mark. Are they approved as gasification units?

wooohoo!

Spending money vicariously!

I hope it is a log gasification boiler?

picky Bear! 😛 You can get 90+% without complex gassification. Mine has dual air intake, you can see the two flaps, the furnace is between the two.

Eyepic, mine is a combined pellet AND log boiler:
PS any qus, drop me a line, and dont forget to post pics of your install etc.

Logs loaded in the left hand furnace, pellets in the right.
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Yes you can BUT if you want to cash in on the potential RHI then you need to use approved products. And do they consistently achieve it, I don't know masses about the log side but have to confess they did get me interested seeing how efficient they are. Quite a clever process and the better ones will measure the flue output to manage the combustion.
Does your system have a thermal relief valve in the system?

thermal relief valve

do you mean an overheat suppression valve?

Yes you can BUT if you want to cash in on the potential RHI

this is VERY true. Mine isnt MCS approved, yet, but I can live with that. If I were starting again, Id go for MCS listed products first (when I was picking this one, no log boilers were approved so it was moot)

The valve that if it alls goes pear shaped dumps lots of water through your heat exchanger!

yep, you can just see a loop of a reinforced thermostat probe line on the top, that connects to the suppression gate. This boiler allows you to use both direct and indirect suppression. Mine is indirect, with the outlet discharged through a tundish, since Im using a solar coil in the thermal store rather than the boiler, but if I needed to use the coil in the boiler for something else, I could connect the suppression system to a direct port tapping instead.

Bear you really ought to come up here and poke about in my bits.

Well I did offer the other month whilst in Chippenham.....

Although am hopefully that way fairly soon to do some more product training on their controls (and to look at their s****y new building).

likewise if you ever get down Kent way should try to show you round a couple of sites as hope to have at least a couple if installs in the area by end of summer (maybe 3 or 4 actually).

whilst in Chippenham

That's like saying "next time you're in Reading, pop in to Kent" 😉

the MIL lives in Beckenham. and the BIL in tonbridge. How far?

Bear you really ought to come up here and poke about in my bits.

Fair way from me, other end of county, but one of the installs is in the middle of kent, and 3 other potentials quite close to either of those locations.

But being in Chippenham is a lot closer than being in Kent! 90 mins away? Drive that for work sometimes.