hot water from hoods

[tuckermtn]

question for hood guys- how much water do you get from a pre-heater hood vs. non-pre-heater hood.

also- can you get water from a non- tight (ie. oversized hood) hood?

I'm looking for hot water, and if I could get a hood out of it, that would be great also...

thanks -

eric

[Bucket Head]

You want a preheater if you want hot water. They generate a lot of water. You won't get a lot of water off of just a hood. You'll get a steady stream of 200+ degree water from the catch pan under a preheater.

Steve

[maple maniac65]

I get 55 gph off from my 30x5 steamaway with a hood

[sapman]

That sounds right to me, maniac!

Tim

[brookledge]

You will only get hot water by having a pre heater. A hood alone without a preheater will not do much unless it is cold on the outside. Once a hood warms up and there is no temperature differential you will get no condensation. When you have a preheater with 212 steam and 40 degree sap there is a big differential so it gives off alot of hot condensation
Also the amount of condensate will vary depending on the size of the preheater and how hard you are pushing the evaporator
Keith

[NH Maplemaker]

Before we added the preheater to our hood we would get some water. Not much and it wasn't vary hot! Once we installed the preheater, we get more hot water than we can posible use and so hot that you can't put your hand in it! Jim L.

[Maplewalnut]

Eric-I get about 5 gallons of water an hour off a 2X6 hood with pre-heater

Mike

[Sugarmaker]

About 7 to 8 gallons per hour of hot water off our 3 x 5 rear pan with copper parallel flow preheater, with very little coming off the hood.

Wow! 55 gallons off of a steam away I hadn't considered that much condensate.
Chris

[snohiker]

ok newbie question here whats the water for

[3rdgen.maple]

Cleaning up the mess we make in the sugarhouse.

[Bucket Head]

The hot water from the preheater is used for cleaning purposes, mainly. Coffee, tea, hot chocolate, instant oatmeal, etc.- whatever needs hot water would be secondary usages.

Steve

[danno]

ok newbie question here whats the water for

Cleaning syrup filters is my primary use.

[Haynes Forest Products]

Have buddy with a 4x16 intenso fire that has a pipe that runs out side from the preheater and he put his extra finish pan under it and it melts away the niter. never neds to clean the pan with acid.

[Big_Eddy]

Buckethead - we make our tea and coffee with boiling sap from the pan. Visitors continually say it's the best they've ever tasted.

[KenWP]

My wife brought me a tasse of coffee when I boiling and then informs me she forgot sweetner and was going to go get some. I just told her it was handled and ladled some syrup into the cup and drank it.

I could see trying to store some of the water off the evaporator as the water here is bad for house plants.

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

It's distilled water if you got a market for it and a buyer, you could run it into a bulk tank and the buyer could pump it out and pay you for it. Old time sugarmaker down here had a 4x14 and a 3x8 running side by and he collected the distilled water off the hoods and bottled and sold it.

[brookledge]

I know that when sap is good quality the condensate is ok to use for drinking like making coffee or hot chocolate etc. but once the sap starts to get nasty the condensate from the preheater doesn't taste as good.
Keith