corn/pellet stove and the goverment

North East Puller

Walt

>Link Through the wall,no conventional chimney and multi-fuel compatible. Grains, biomass pellets and we all know stoker coal will run just fine through this unit too.

Is your chimney on an exterior wall, that may be part of the problem but when the cat is running, there should not be enough creosote to deposite even on a cold chimney.

Something doesn't sound right. With a new catalytic stove, you shouldn't be having these problems.

The government pulls the money out of your pocket and then gives it back to you to do what they want you to do. This is not a political forum but it just doesn't sound like a good idea.

A country that resorts to burning their food to stay warm does not have a bright future.

Have you looked at a newer wood stove? I bought one two years ago that will put out good heat loading every 8 hours and will heat for 12 hours if I'm not around. It uses a catalyst which burns the smoke increasing the heat output. I now burn about a third less wood and there is literally nothing to clean out of the chimney at the end of burn season.

Also something else to consider, a corn stove will not function without power. We've already lost electricity three times this winter.

I use mostly oak and locust split just enough so that I can shove it through the stove door.

After 10 ours, it is still blowing hot air with enough coals to just load more wood and leave the catalyst running. After 12 hours, it is still blowing warm air but their is not enough fire to keep the catalyst lit when new wood is loaded. I have to shut down the catalyst and open it up to reheat the catalyst so it will burn the smoke.

Once it is hot, you shut the whole thing thing down. The fire box's only purpose is to heat the wood enough to make smoke not burn the wood. It takes hours for the wood to char and finally end up as embers. Think of the embers in a big burn pile buried in the ashes. They can stay hot for days. Same principle here.

The smoke combusts in the catalytic chamber where the heat can be efficiently extracted by the blower.

When the power goes out and you don't have the blower, it still will function as a regular wood stove requiring more frequent stoking but thankfully, we haven't had a protracted outage.