I'm looking for a way to get (low cost) hot/warm water in my shack for general clean up. Not high volume maybe between 10 - 50 gallons.
2 ideas that I was tossing around were...I have estimated the cost of either setup to be about $50-80 (I already have a Aquatec 660 pump to use for circulation).
- Using some setup of coiled copper tubing around/behind the stack. Since this is glowing quite often I thought the radiating heat could be used to heat the water that would be circulating constantly into a barrel. Concerns that I thought of with this setup would be cooling the temperature in my stack affecting the draft and being able to remove the coils when not needed and being able to bend the tubing tight enough around 1/2 of the stack.
- Using a new AC condenser and place it over my sap pan (2x4 sap pan) making use of the rising heat/steam from the pan and hopefully getting the heat transferred to the water in the condenser. Once again this would be constantly circulating into a barrel.
Any thoughts if either of these setups would work or would the output of hot/warm water not be worth it?
Any suggestion on some other way of accomplishing hot/warm water on a budget?