alex writes:
Hi everybody
I have designed and constructed stoves at my home, which is a wire type electric heating element. When I tested it, I got some heat leakage at outside surface. Taking into consideration the following points, can any one help me to solve this problem?
My initial design data are:-
1. The internal room volum size is 40cmx60cmx60cm and the wall thickness is 4cm. This thickens is filled by commonly used stove's heat insulating wool (reused, taken from repair shop). The wall is constructed by 1 or 2 mm sheet metal and the frame is made by 4cm angle iron
2. As electric design data I used three pcs of electric heating wires of 38 Ohms each then at 220V each produced ~ 5Amp when I measured them.
As I said above, when I tested there was some heating leakage at outside surface of this home made stove. On this problem I suspected:
1. The wall thickness is small then I planed to increase to 8cm (double of the existing one)
2. The heating material "the re-used insulating wool", which was taken from industrial made domestic stove, is not longer useful for this purpose.
Therefore, can any one comment on my suspect? or give me some new idea?
Thanks
Home Stove Heat Leakage
