Friction heater running in my house

[oilpiggy]

This friction heater I have built costs me around 5 cents a hour to run @ 14 cents a kilowatt. The inside temp of my house is at 70F  day and night, the out side is around 30F to 10F. That would be a delta T between 40F and 60F. My house is around 1250 sq. ft.   
Here is my youtube Chanel where I post my videos on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQjPSsIWDvg&feature=plcp

[norman6538]

Did you make this from scratch or did you have plans?
Norman

[gotoluc]

Hi oilpiggy,

thanks for sharing your friction heater build.
It looks very well built and you have some very impressive results. I have a friend who built one a few years ago but does not seem to have as good of results you have.

I'll send him the link to your topic and maybe you can give him some pointers on modifications he can make to get better results. His name is Rick. We both live in Canada and were involve in the build using Rick's machine shop setup in his garage.
Rick's rotor has about 12 of 8" perforated steel disk that he pressed a wave pattern in the disk to create more friction. He filled it with ATF but the motor could not turn it for long before the motors thermal switch would kick in. So he tried it with Diesel and had better results but the heat output did not seem so good compared to the watts the motor was burning.

Anyways, it would be great if you can help out

Thanks for sharing your very well done video demo

Luc

[oilpiggy]

Hi, and thank you I am a Machinist by trade so that helped in this build and have years of R and D work under the belt.
Sure anytime just send me an email at yardwarrior@hotmail.com Subject  "Friction heater"
It sounds like from what you just told me he is looking at the thing all wrong. Have him look up K-Factor in water terms or some reading on Victor Schauberger.
Still feel free to hit me up I would be more then helpful in your build.

[oilpiggy]

Did you make this from scratch or did you have plans?
Norman

I made this from scratch with allot of reading.