Waste Oil Heater Forum - Your definitive source for burning waste oil for heat.

Thinking about heat in the sunny southwest?  Good to hear!  When it starts cooling down outside, the forum starts to become active.  I dont have a lot of experience myself, only with the pressure system I am using, but there are lots of other smart people out here with lots of knowledge and experience that can hopefully help you out.  Thanks for stopping by!

Good luck with your build.

Russ

No, havent started it yet, but I should get doing that soon.  I should change the filter and that will probably be a little easier to do when it is warm out.  Get the oil sucked through the new filter.

Hope the new heater does the job. 

Burn on!

Russ

Good to hear it is working out for you.  Do you have some pictures of the burner and your setup you could post?  I would be interested in seeing what you are working with.

Yea, a good source of fuel is definitely needed if you are going to be running the heater a lot!

Later...

Russ

Good deal.  Take pictures and post for us to see!

Yea still cold here too.  Will be for another couple of months.

Happy building!

Yea, I was kind of overwhelmed when I looked at the book for mine too.  There is all sorts of programming you can do with it, but it worked well out of the box without any programming.  Hooked up the thermocouple and applied power.  I played around with it a little in the house to figure out what was going on.  The temp on the top is the temp of the thermocouple and the bottom is the desired temp.  The arrow buttons change the desired temp up and down.  You can do programming but that wasn't necessary for what I am doing.

Here is the one I am using:
http://www.auberins.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=1

Have you hooked yours up to power to see how it works?  Maybe it is as simple as the one I have?

I would think that if the heaters are showing the correct resistance they should be working alright.  I know with my heater if the oil isnt heated hot enough it will be very difficult to light or keep lit.  Is there a temp gauge telling you how hot the heaters are?  If not can you get a hold of a temp gun and see how hot it is?

How is the flow of oil?  Can you remove the burner and run it to see if oil is shooting out like it should be?  I use a plastic bottle on the end of the nozzle to catch the oil and it works good to watch it spray.  If you arent getting good oil flow is something plugged up?  Filters or nozzle? Or bad pump?

Im not familiar with the commercial burners but I would check those things.

Thanks for the suggestion Nik.  There is a section for filtering.  Do you think there should be a sub heading below filtering for centrifuges?  Let me know what you think.

Thanks,

Russ

Hi Nik,

I know there are some vendors that chatted here on the forums earlier.  Maybe one of them will be able to help you out?  If you need help I could order some and ship them to you.  Not sure how difficult that would be.  I have shipped to Canada before and wasnt too bad.  Not sure about shipping to the UK though.  Let me know if I can be of any help.