Can You Convert A Wood Stove To Pellet
The prometheus is a steel basket with its sides and bottom covered by thousands of honeycomb shaped airholes.
Can you convert a wood stove to pellet. Burning pellets used to require a pellet stove but new hampshire based energex has created an add on product called prometheus that allows homeowners to convert any fireplace or wood burning stove to pellets. The hot pellets will ignite the new pellets. I found 2 solutions. If you have a pellet basket for your wood stove you can use it to burn pellets in the stove.
Watch as steve maxwell tours a device for burning wood heating pellets in an ordinary woodstove or fireplace. Simply place the basket in your wood stove fill it with wood pellets light the pellets with gel firestarter. You could get a wood stove but you are starting from scratch. How to burn pellet fuel in a wood stove.
Add more pellets when needed. Reasons you may want to install a wood pellet stove in your existing gas fireplace for a number of reasons. There are differences though between wood pellets and traditional wood logs. However just opening your stove and tossing a few wood pellets into it can cause serious damage to the stove.
Pellet stoves have different chimney requirements. I got a cheap price on wood pellets so i needed a way to burn them in my barrel wood stove i built from a kit. Produced by a backyard inventor it s pretty co. Scoop the hot pellets to one side with a metal scoop add new pellets next to the hot pellets.