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Redneck Pool Heater...(You'll laugh, then say DAMN!)
shardian:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on September 06, 2007, 06:19:19 am ---
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that looks really, really dangerous
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Why? Its just a heat exchanger. It's probably safer than actually cooking burgers on the grill. If he turns the grill off, it will be cool in like 30 seconds.
danny_galaga:
yes, but when you grill a burger you dont face been blasted with super-heated steam :o
obviously you would make sure the pump is going first or whatever, but i bet there are no built in safe guards...
Samstag:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on September 06, 2007, 07:46:33 am ---
yes, but when you grill a burger you dont face been blasted with super-heated steam :o
obviously you would make sure the pump is going first or whatever, but i bet there are no built in safe guards...
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Good point. It does need some kind of cutoff if the pump stops.
But since this is a "redneck" version, I'm sure the system is fully automatic and running on "kid power".
Ed_McCarron:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on September 06, 2007, 07:46:33 am ---yes, but when you grill a burger you dont face been blasted with super-heated steam
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To superheat steam you need to pressurize it. That system is open to slightly over ambient pressure at both ends. On the other hand, if it ran dry, turning the water in it to steam and the solder melting - killing you via lead poisoning... :)
bfauska:
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on September 06, 2007, 03:44:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on September 06, 2007, 07:46:33 am ---yes, but when you grill a burger you dont face been blasted with super-heated steam
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To superheat steam you need to pressurize it. That system is open to slightly over ambient pressure at both ends. On the other hand, if it ran dry, turning the water in it to steam and the solder melting - killing you via lead poisoning... :)
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Except that most plumbing solder for the last several years has been lead free.
On another note, you wouldn't necessarily need a pump for this system anyway. If you plumbed it so that the intake was at the bottom of the pool, the heated water entered the pool near the top and the heater was at an elevation somewhere between, you would have natural circulation. Of course this assumes an above ground pool or a buried grill, but with rednecks the pool is VERY likely above ground.
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