DirtBean
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Wife has requested some easy to use hot water.
I tried to do this over the weekend, but didn't get enough heat.
The zodi firepit kit looks like 2-3 loops of copper tubing that is placed in fire and water gravity feeds through it. The stovetop model is some coils in a box (how many?) and is pumped through by a 6V pump. I thought about buying it, but figured I'd skip buying a pump, since I could run it off of my camper water pump anyway.
Here is what I did:
Put a dishwasher quick-connect fitting on the faucet and ran a SS hose from that to a 1/2" check valve, then SS hose to some 3/8" copper tubing that I had shaped into about 3 1/2 loop circular coil (looking like the zodi firepit model) and ran last of tubing back to sink. I put this on the stovetop, turned on water, fired up stove. I played with flow rate and had flame on max, no hot water. I put a little ad-hoc deflector plate over the coils and started to get some little bit of warmth, but not enough to call it success. I was starting to get frustrated and decided fire and angry don't mix well.
Has anybody tried this type of thing, or can anybody comment on number of coils in the zodi stove top heater box?
I tried to do this over the weekend, but didn't get enough heat.
The zodi firepit kit looks like 2-3 loops of copper tubing that is placed in fire and water gravity feeds through it. The stovetop model is some coils in a box (how many?) and is pumped through by a 6V pump. I thought about buying it, but figured I'd skip buying a pump, since I could run it off of my camper water pump anyway.
Here is what I did:
Put a dishwasher quick-connect fitting on the faucet and ran a SS hose from that to a 1/2" check valve, then SS hose to some 3/8" copper tubing that I had shaped into about 3 1/2 loop circular coil (looking like the zodi firepit model) and ran last of tubing back to sink. I put this on the stovetop, turned on water, fired up stove. I played with flow rate and had flame on max, no hot water. I put a little ad-hoc deflector plate over the coils and started to get some little bit of warmth, but not enough to call it success. I was starting to get frustrated and decided fire and angry don't mix well.
Has anybody tried this type of thing, or can anybody comment on number of coils in the zodi stove top heater box?