home made co2 burner

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bryan oconner

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ok a cot burner is about 300 bucks. I do have a controller to turn it off and on when required monitors levels of co2. question is . how would I make a home made one ? like buying burners for a stove or hot water heat or a heater . I have natural gas . so the controller says its time to inject co2 basically has a plug the attaches to the burner . I could hook this signal wire to the burners that have no pilot lights but have an electronic ignition . only issue I am having . how would the burners be sure to ignite . a gas over has this safety . wonder if it would cost almost the same putting a safe one to together then just buying one . any opinions . thanks !!!!!!!.
 
bryan oconner said:
i did some home work on this homemade burner . it will save very little cash . just going to buy a co2 generator by auto pilot .
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That's probably a wise choice lol. Reminds me of the joke about the guy that packed his own chute only to, while plummeting to the ground passed a guy rocketing pass him in the opposite direction to the sky, and yelling "you know anything about parachutes?" The guy flying passed him says "no, do you know anything about gas furnaces" :).
 
bryan oconner said:
lmao . where the hell you find this crazy video . I want to be a hvac tech too . cant beat a good blow job from a lonely house wife .
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That part may be a bit far fetched, closest I've came (hehehe) is a girl undressing in front of me to change clothes, said she was in a hurry......not a problem I said :). Showed that video at my last training seminar lol. We are saving the world a BTU at a time though :).
 
The thing you need to watch is that your not using to much oxygen if your room is sealed. If the oxygen gets to low and CO2 to high you may get CO and that's a bad thing :(.
 
budley I am not a rookie with co2 I am currently expanding a bit tomato plants . I currently run the ppm at 2200 ppm way over the suggested 1200 I like the results much better and they finish a lot faster . lmao @ tomato well worth the electric bill gas bill time equipment .
 
bryan oconner said:
budley I am not a rookie with co2 I am currently expanding a bit tomato plants . I currently run the ppm at 2200 ppm way over the suggested 1200 I like the results much better and they finish a lot faster . lmao @ tomato well worth the electric bill gas bill time equipment .
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Oh ok then lol. Wow 2200, I thought 1500 was the set point. Got all the shit to run bottles just never made the jump, kind of lacking infrastructure for a sealed room :(
 
yea if I ran a bottle I would not even bother with co2 to much work money. natural gas is almost free here so I crank it up and in the winter I just leave the co2 on at there night keeps them warm . natural gas co2 generators make a lot of heat . I know they only benefit from it in the day . but need a cheap heater it works for me . very good insulation . if you can afford it strongly suggest try and crank the co2 up and see if you shave a week off your flower . in the long run it saves a lot of electric depending on what your running for me its a big chunk of cash for that one week electricity . its .16 per kilo watt here in Michigan usa .
 
Budley Doright said:
That part may be a bit far fetched, closest I've came (hehehe) is a girl undressing in front of me to change clothes, said she was in a hurry......not a problem I said :). Showed that video at my last training seminar lol. We are saving the world a BTU at a time though :).
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I'm going to change your world, bro.
 
Budley Doright said:
The thing you need to watch is that your not using to much oxygen if your room is sealed. If the oxygen gets to low and CO2 to high you may get CO and that's a bad thing :(.
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Healthy plants make plenty of it. Converting it into CO2 accelerates growth, I think that's pretty cool. Almost like plant HVAC... and if course they are HVAC plants themselves, right? They soak up heat and transpire it into RH, right? Call it a 'skunk' cooler! Lol
 
ttystikk said:
Healthy plants make plenty of it. Converting it into CO2 accelerates growth, I think that's pretty cool. Almost like plant HVAC... and if course they are HVAC plants themselves, right? They soak up heat and transpire it into RH, right? Call it a 'skunk' cooler! Lol
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I read an article in a trade mag a while back where a guy was running CO2 and depleted the oxygen in the room to the point that there was incomplete combustion and just about died from CO. But probably not an everyday occurance. I would have thought CO2 burners would have a low O2 cutoff.
 
bryan oconner said:
yea if I ran a bottle I would not even bother with co2 to much work money. natural gas is almost free here so I crank it up and in the winter I just leave the co2 on at there night keeps them warm . natural gas co2 generators make a lot of heat . I know they only benefit from it in the day . but need a cheap heater it works for me . very good insulation . if you can afford it strongly suggest try and crank the co2 up and see if you shave a week off your flower . in the long run it saves a lot of electric depending on what your running for me its a big chunk of cash for that one week electricity . its .16 per kilo watt here in Michigan usa .
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Ya power is pretty expensive here to lol. I think we have the highest rates in North America. Actually I probably could get away with running it in the dead of winter but it would be propane (not cheap either) , I'm sure I could rig up something, got lots of burner trays lying around that have standing pilot and are switch operated. Thanks Bryan! More shit to think about lol. Going to throw together a res chiller (mechanical) here in a bit so I can get shit going inside 1st of October.
 
You do know that "portable" water heaters are the SAME damn thing as "water cooled CO2 generators" right?

Hang on a sec, ok.

HERE WE GO! PEEP THIS DUDES!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Marey-2-GPM...867849?hash=item33b9f05689:g:izkAAOSwa39UzPAj

This is the SAME thing as a GEN II co2 generator !!!!! The ONLY difference is that it has a battery powered starter...

Yup, made in THE SAME FACTORY in China! In fact, if you take the covers off them,,,,,THEY ARE THE SAME THING INSIDE!!!!

Pick a nice portable and save some real cash!

BTW, it's what I have for a co2 generator! Never had a problem yet!
 
Budley Doright said:
I read an article in a trade mag a while back where a guy was running CO2 and depleted the oxygen in the room to the point that there was incomplete combustion and just about died from CO. But probably not an everyday occurance. I would have thought CO2 burners would have a low O2 cutoff.
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all modern gas burners have low ox shut down,if it doesn't don't use it,i been a gas tech long time
 
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