Modine Verticle Hydronic Heaters?

[HiccaBurp]

I just pulled 5 of these Modine V193 Vertical Hydronic steam/hot water heaters from a factory. I wish my garage had tall enough ceilings to use them since I have radiant heating in the house.

Would these be good for a home shop?

I put them on craigslist for $150 each, any other place I should put them up for sale?

Here is a website with more info on the units.. http://www.h-mac.com/modine-v193.html

 

[CARS]

When I added on to my shop I installed in-floor hydronic to the addition. I added another pump to the boiler system and installed one of these units to the "old shop". Works great. A bit noisy, but heats great.

I only paid $50.00 for mine, but mine is a much older model.

 

[HiccaBurp]

If anyone here on the GJ family wants them.. I would sell these for $75 a piece.. or even better if you take all. Otherwise I'm going to scrap them which is about $50 worth of copper, aluminum and motor

 

[CARS]

If you were closer, I would take one just to see if it is quieter than my old one. Shipping would be a killer.

 

[HiccaBurp]

If you were closer, I would take one just to see if it is quieter than my old one. Shipping would be a killer.

We go fishing in N MN.. but probably won't be till later this summer. If by chance I still have them.. I'll keep you in mind!

I put them on CL here in N IL.. I was hoping they would go to a good home. They seem like they'd make good shop heaters. I scrapped the older ones, but these 5 I have are definitely newer and nicer.

My neighbor would like to put it in his garage, but doesn't have a boiler. Can you run these off of a Hot Water Tank? Pros/cons?

 

[Highbeam]

Of course you can run them off a hot water tank. A boiler and a HWT are not that much different when you get down to it. Drawback is that the typical HWT does not have the same wattage output as a boiler and those radiators look capable of massive output.

You'd be bringing a knife to a gunfight.

 

[HiccaBurp]

You'd be bringing a knife to a gunfight.

Love it!! Here are the specs for the heater http://www.h-mac.com/modine-v193.html

Is that something a standard household 50 or 75 gallon HWT can handle? He's got really tall ceilings in his garage.. so mounting this would be no problem. At least 12' maybe 14'. It's a 2.5 car attached garage

 

[Liquidsilver]

Do you still have these?

 

[HiccaBurp]

Do you still have these?

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[tdkkart]

They'd work awesome hooked to a few solar panels. A friend used a couple similar ones as heat exchangers in a large hot water storage tank for his solar system. He could damn near boil approx. 1500 gallons with his rack setup if he wasn't taking any heat out.

 

[mjr73]

Do you still have any of these available?

 

[mygarageone]

Of course you can run them off a hot water tank. A boiler and a HWT are not that much different when you get down to it. Drawback is that the typical HWT does not have the same wattage output as a boiler and those radiators look capable of massive output.

You'd be bringing a knife to a gunfight.

There's a Hugh difference between a water heater and a boiler . The water heater is not made to recover heat any where near what a boiler is and a boiler is specifically designed for heating application , a water heater is not.
Water heaters are not designed for longevity and boiler are. etc,etc,etc.
Then you are talking wattage rather than btu's ,
I can not tell what the btu rating is but a water heater would never keep up.Unless you installed a hugh water heater that had a high recovery.,

One last thing , Michigan and other states will not allow water heaters to be used as boilers , if they are not plated as a boiler your not allowed to use them. so obviously there 's a different . So anytime you are trying to use a water heater for heating , that's a no , no


Geez where do you guys get your information.

 

[CARS]

Geez where do you guys get your information.

From your polar opposite. You know the guy that says it works in his garage.

 

[mygarageone]

From your polar opposite. You know the guy that says it works in his garage.

My Polar opposition comes from dealing with people who have just enough knowledge to be dangerous .

My answer was to a civil engineer , who said there wasn't much difference between a water heater and a Boiler . Tell me now , where did he get this information ?

Giving advice on something like this when the person has no real knowledge or understanding of how this stuff works . only hurts the one;s who do as they are told and then pay the price later.
I don't know how many times I have went behind some person who thinks they know about this or that in the heating field and the home owner always has to pay the long dollar because of it.
Then we get accused of being over priced .

 

[cnc-me]

That's got to be around 100K BTU judging by the size of it.
It's going to take one hell of a water heater to keep up with that thing.
Would not even bother to hook it up to a normal WH as after about 5 minutes
it would be blowing cold air.