Here you will learn:
- How do Stropuva boilers work?
- Main models
- How to start a Stropuva boiler
- Reservation of work
- Reviews from real owners
Traditional solid fuel boilers are not capable of providing long-term combustion of up to one or two days or more. And even impressive combustion chambers do not adequately solve this problem. Its solution will be the Stropuva boiler - equipment from a Lithuanian brand. The principle of surface combustion is used here, ensuring long-term operation from a single load of fuel.
In this review we will look at:
- Construction of Stropuwa boilers.
- The principle of their work.
- Technical characteristics of the equipment.
- Popular models.
At the end of the article, user reviews will be given.
Economical
They will need to be refueled once every 12 hours. There are also boilers that operate for up to three days or more, without requiring outside intervention. However, it is important not only to select the type of unit being described, but also to decide which manufacturer to give preference to. The Stropuva boiler is very popular on the modern market; it will be discussed below.
Reviews of different types of boilers of the Stropuva brand
By visiting a store of relevant products, you can find universal long-burning boilers and those that run on solid fuel. The latter variety can use not only firewood, but also wood waste. According to users, the main distinguishing feature of these devices is their independence from power supply. With the help of such units it will be possible to heat the room, even if there is no electricity.
The Stropuva universal boiler is also a popular product of the company. You can load wood waste, firewood, peat and sawdust briquettes into the firebox of such a device, regardless of their moisture level and quality. As users emphasize, for such a device to operate, it must be connected to an electrical outlet. This is the only way to regularly supply oxygen to the firebox. In one hour, the boiler will consume 20 watts, which is very economical.
Reservation of work
The Stropuva boiler will delight you with long-lasting fuel combustion. But even in this case, you can miss the moment of the next bookmark. As a result, the temperature of the coolant in the heating circuit will begin to fall. To prevent this from happening, we recommend installing a backup electric boiler in the circuit. If it detects a temperature drop below the set limit, it will turn on and maintain the set temperature.
Electricity consumption will be small if you don’t forget to add firewood for 2-3 days. The vast majority of the time the boiler will burn, providing heat to consumers. Therefore, you should not expect huge expenses. In addition, the auxiliary boiler does not have to be as powerful as the main one - a model with a power 2-3 times lower is quite enough so as not to make your teeth chatter in the morning. We also recommend working on insulating your home so that it retains the accumulated heat longer.
Safety
Buyers choose the Stropuva boiler also for the reason that it is safe to use. If severe overheating occurs, which causes excessive loads, the boiler cannot explode; its design is made in such a way that it “shrinks” inside. This heating equipment has a large volume firebox, which allows you to add fuel in the appropriate quantity. It will gradually burn out in thin layers, as the air distributor lowers and the heated gas rises into the chimney. During the process, heat will be transferred to the inner walls.
Reviews about the characteristics of the S40U solid fuel boiler
If you decide to choose a Stropuva boiler of this model, you should first familiarize yourself with the characteristics. The power of the device is 40 kilowatts, and the unit can heat up to 400 square meters. Burning time is 120 hours. As users emphasize, this single-circuit boiler provides long-term combustion on one tab. The final period of fuel burnout will depend on the heat loss of the building, the quality of the fuel and the external temperature. A long-burning wood boiler "Stropuva" will operate for up to 30 hours; the burning time for briquettes increases to 48 hours. If you use pellets, they will last for 72 hours. Consumers like that such equipment can operate without additional intervention on coal for up to 5 days. If you choose a device with a large power reserve, the burning time will be significantly increased.
How to start a Stropuva boiler
First, you need to purchase a piping kit to connect the equipment to the heating system. We recommend purchasing a kit with the ability to connect an indirect heating boiler. It includes a set of pipes, a safety group, an expansion tank and a circulation pump. Also on sale are kits for connecting underfloor heating.
It is not recommended to use damp firewood - this will interfere with the normal operation of the boiler.
Ignition is carried out in the following way - here are brief instructions for use:
- We load the wood combustion chamber full with the air distributor raised.
- We fill the finished masonry with sawdust.
- Open the flap for switching to wood.
- Open the air damper 3-5 cm.
- We light the top layer, close the loading door, leaving a gap 3-5 cm wide.
- We wait for reliable combustion, close the loading door and immediately lower the air distributor.
Please note that the cleaning door must be closed.
A new portion of firewood can be added to the Stropuv boiler at any time, but doing this with coal is dangerous. In any case, the manufacturer recommends that you always wait until the fuel burns out completely before adding a new portion.
Consumer reviews about the safety of the model
If you decide to choose the described Stropuva boiler, reviews of which are presented in the article, then you can hope for safety and reliability in operation. Not so long ago, the significant disadvantages of such boilers were: the inability to work in autonomous mode and the frequent need to load fuel. Today, solid fuel units are free of such disadvantages. The control is based on simple automation, which is represented by a valve with a bimetallic draft regulator. It does not require an electrical connection, which ensures completely autonomous operation without electronic automatic devices. When considering such a Stropuva boiler, reviews of which may allow you to make the right choice, consumers compare it with diesel, gas and electric boilers. In the latter, there is always the danger of a short circuit in the electrical network, a diesel fuel fire or a gas explosion. Buyers like that the solid fuel boiler is designed in such a way that it cannot explode if the load is repeatedly exceeded.
Reviews of the Mini S8U universal boiler
If you are interested in long-burning (“Stropuva”) boilers, then you can choose the model mentioned above, for which you will have to pay 68,000 rubles. The power of the device is 8 kilowatts, and the heated area can reach 80 square meters. The burning time on one load of fuel is 72 hours. Owners of private houses note that this single-circuit boiler has a very clear operation scheme and a simple design that any user can study. This will eliminate difficulties in operation.
When purchasing such a device, you can count on a five-year warranty, which applies to the body, and a two-year warranty on consumables. Buyers like the fact that they can count on annual servicing for 5 years. This equipment is also attractive to buyers because it has an aesthetic appearance. You can choose any color that will suit the interior of the room where the device will be installed.
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Warmth in a country house is a very important aspect of country life. At the construction stage, or at the stage of rethinking previously made decisions, the homeowner is faced with the question of a convenient, simple, and most importantly - economical heating method. Therefore, it is important to understand the advantages of long-burning solid fuel boilers in Stropuvo and the nuances of their use in modern country houses and industrial premises. The Stropuva boiler is the only boiler in the world whose combustion goes beyond the parameters we are accustomed to. This is the most unique technology in its segment. If we compare this boiler with any other solid fuel boiler, it will be an incorrect comparison - none of the existing boilers can offer such a burning duration on one load of fuel - 120 hours. In the best case, other boilers will withstand up to 6 hours of continuous burning. This means that in the cold season you will have the “exciting” job of a fireman - getting up every 6 hours to go add fuel. To thoroughly understand the uniqueness of the Stropuva boiler technology, you will need a short excursion into the history of heating - this will help to better understand the physics of the process. History of heating Since the emergence of the need for heating in cold weather, all processes of fuel combustion have occurred according to the same principle; the best example is the design of the Russian stove. We add fuel, open the blower from below, and light the fuel from below. The combustion process begins - the fuel begins to burn all at once, according to the principle of a fire. It burns well and hot, but not for long and not efficiently - part of the fuel burns out “just like that”, and the heat flies out into the chimney! To keep the combustion process at one fairly stable level, it is necessary to add more and more fuel very often. Otherwise, the combustion will die out very quickly and the fuel will burn ineffectively! It is this principle that underlies the design of any of the existing heating devices operating on solid fuel - it is always a “bonfire”. It doesn’t matter what we are talking about - a modern pyrolysis boiler, a regular “potbelly stove” type boiler, or pellet boilers with a hopper, a feed mechanism and an electric burner, or a Russian stove. Stropuva's innovative long-burning technology is a completely different idea of fuel combustion. This is the most modern invention of mankind, where everything is literally and figuratively turned upside down: Air is supplied to the boiler not from below (remember the “bonfire”?), but from above! Moreover, air, with the help of a special structural element - a telescopic pipe and an air distributor nozzle, is supplied immediately and directly to the combustion zone! It is thanks to this arrangement that the fuel also burns not from below, but from above, so at the same time only the upper 20-25 cm of fuel participates in the combustion process. The boiler is structurally designed in such a way that, using the physics of solids (heating - expansion, cooling - compression) and the author's invention - a bi-thermal draft regulator (air damper), also located at the top, on the boiler lid. The boiler itself regulates the intensity of air supply to the combustion zone, which directly affects the stability of the combustion process and does not allow the use of more fuel than is currently needed. Structurally, the boiler consists of two vessels of different diameters, inserted into one another, between which there is a coolant liquid. Inside the maximum version of 40 kW, the boiler contains only 55 liters of liquid at a time, and the heat removal area is the entire internal circumference of the boiler. Long-burning solid fuel boiler in Stropuva. The same design made it possible to make the boiler as safe as possible and with a very long service life. The aggressive combustion zone is only 20-25 cm, and this zone is not static, but moves from top to bottom during the cycle. This is what made it possible to set the minimum service life of the boiler - 15 years, and given the simplicity of the design - more, because there is simply nothing to break! This provides an additional very important criterion - personal safety and home safety! The boiler is easy to install and commission; you just need to follow the recommendations on how to connect it. Long-burning solid fuel boiler Stropuva A simple example - it has already become habitual for us that if we purchase a modern TV (for example, with the latest 4K technology), we no longer try to connect it to a regular indoor antenna and try to get a high-quality picture. We are still trying to connect the TV to cable television, at a minimum. Otherwise, it is difficult for us to explain to ourselves why we paid a lot of money. Also with the Stropuva boiler - it is very strange to buy a heating device that is excellent and unsurpassed in terms of combustion duration, heat savings and service life, which is worth the money - and ignore all the manufacturer’s recommendations, losing the most important thing - the pleasure of the boiler’s operation!
Reviews of the S20P pellet boiler
You will have to pay 102,800 rubles for this equipment. Its power is 20 kilowatts, and it can heat 200 square meters or less. The single-circuit boiler comes with a five-year warranty. As buyers emphasize, using different pellets you can get a certain effect. For example, alder briquettes burn with the least amount of smoke. They do not spark or shoot when compared with firewood. After final combustion, approximately 2% of ash remains, but from wood this residue is 15%. Using this type of fuel, you can achieve a rapid rise in temperature and maintain it evenly throughout the entire burnout period. The burning time is increased by 1.5 times compared to firewood. If you use peat briquettes, you need to set them on fire without opening the lower oxygen supply channel. The collector, that is, the fan, must be turned on, the tubular diffuser must be activated. It is an air distributor for coal.
Boiler STROPUVA. It's worth it? Owner reviews.
I’ve read all of the above and want to leave my review about the sling and pyrolytic boilers. (I apologize in advance for the spelling. It’s not a dictation, so don’t care)))) my house is 8=9 aerated concrete. The boiler hiccupped all summer, we surfed the forums. We came to the world of warmth and saw Stropuv (this yellow barrel) the sellers say one thing, but I’m not trusting by nature and for that kind of money I decided to find out everything myself, what and how. I work as a window installer and one fine day I was working in a house where I saw this barrel with a pipe next to it an insulated barrel of water. After a long conversation with the owner, it turned out that this is their 2nd boiler and they are not very happy with this one; they will sell it (their house has 9 = 10 timber) in short, the disadvantages of slings are 1. it is inconvenient to use (the size of the firewood is not standard) and this is a hemorrhage. 2. tar which is adjusted both in the boiler and in the chimney (once a week they burn it while standing with a bucket of water) 3. We don’t have firewood for it, we have pine or foxwood, and it’s raw, and our firewood turns the sling into tar, a former and a hemogenizer. at first it worked for them without a heat accumulator, now with it, and only because of reducing the level of heat (TA by 1 cubic meter) this gave the effect that for some time the boiler works at full capacity and cleans itself during this time while it works at full capacity. the supply of firewood noticeably decreases and it’s a hemorrhoid to throw in. In general, it’s not worth the money, much less the installation work is not worth the same money. He should work in the west where the chimneys don’t cool down that much. Where people burn with alder firewood or briquettes.
and now my experience. I live in Vakhmistrovo. I have a small boiler for 18 kilowatts. It costs temporarily until spring to survive the winter + the electric boiler is built-in. The house is insulated on all sides with polystyrene foam 100 + extruded styrene 50. The house itself is aerated concrete 300. the thermometer exceeded 30 (29 more precisely) and the electric boiler only worked at 6 am.
IN SHORT, FROM ALL THE ABOVE SAID, CORRECTLY INSULATE YOUR HOUSES AND THERE WILL NOT BE WILD TEMPERATURE CHANGES IN THE HOUSE.
P.S. The neighbor across the road has a round timber house, unclad house 9-10, one floor. Recently I went to visit and started talking to him about boilers and he showed how his heating was done. In the extension of the house there is a boiler measuring a meter by a meter and about one and a half meters high .the obvious self-propelled gun is not even painted. So he drowns it with trimmings and he drowns it once a day, there are no water batteries. He drowns it once a day, but he eats a decent amount of mare. Moreover, he eats and does not choke on both pine and foliage, unlike these fifas from the European Union and it gives all the heat you need. And the asking price is 30,000. Some kind of kulibin cooks and has been working for the third year now and only requires regular portions of slab and taking wood ash out to the garden to fertilize potatoes. By the way, he bought a Chinese (Chinese Kamaz) slab for 3500. says x .r now knows how much is enough and where to coordinate it so much. (by the way, you don’t need to stab the croaker). In short, you’re racking your brains here, but I decided for myself that everything ingenious is simple and not necessarily expensive.
in short, a boiler with only a large firebox
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Ksati tried to put a container for the boiler for 800 liters (I bought it at a scrap metal shop for 1500), there is not enough water, but the batteries cool down 3 hours slower, I saw similar containers in the store but for 500 liters in Gorky near absolute for 15,000.
Unfortunately, my 18-kilowatt boiler is rather weak and takes a long time to heat this container and heats up only after 3 approaches to the firebox I had to give up, but without a container the electric boiler heats the water in 15 minutes.
