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There was a 20yr old in the house when we bought it. High/low/off for fan settings, manual draft, and an auger trim to adjust for pellets of different burn rates (dryer, longer, shorter, green, etc). We were always messing with it to keep it burning right, and not going out or overflowing the burn pot. The new one is electronically controlled. Digital control panel, electronic ignition (some glow plug thing), 2 separate fans for exhaust and room air, and 5 heat settings. We turn it on and walk away with no messing around.

Electric heat never is. That's why I recommended the pellet stove. Only electricity is for the control board, 2 blowers, and the auger. The front half of the stove gets up to around 320 degrees so it radiates heat out as much as it blows it out over the transfer plate on the firebox. Ceiling fan above it helps circulate it more.

I sent a couple pics of it.

 

thats awesomness yo

 

Eagles

Hopefully we can keep it up

 

x2. they are so cool. piercedtiger, is it passive or is there a fan in it?
edit: saw your posts. very cool. thanks.

 

your kids are adorable

 

Speaker

 

There are 2. One sucks air out of the firebox. That air come in through a tube in the back (which can be hooked to an outside air intake that goes through the wall for trailers or small houses so it doesn't burn YOUR oxygen), and through the bottom of the burn pot. So the air comes up through the burning pellets, making them burn hotter, and drawing the flames toward the top where a plate heats up. The plate is under the diamond holes above the door. A second fan (room fan) pulls air from under the stove and blows it out those holes so it's heated by the firebox.

That's how nearly all of them work. Ours in particular just happens to heat up the front half enough to radiate heat out in all directions too. The double wall pipe in the back gets up to around 90-100 so that radiates heat as well, but the wall stays cool in comparison. No need for a heat shield.

The pipe is supposed to go outside the house, then up 3 feet to the vent cap. We couldn't do that due to a radiator behind the stove so we put the T inside, ran it up, and then out the wall. I think this works better as it lets the exhaust air heat the house as much as possible before being dumped outside. Reclaim whatever I can!

 

Very nice.

Saw them.... very nice. Not sure I could use one here... Don't know that they have them for one, or even if they had the pellets available. I have a gas fireplace but the fumes get to me. Cold doesn't bother me... just put a blanket over me when I sit down. I get cold when I sit anyway, so....

Soooo cute!!

 

You know... sitting to watch tv or read a book or play on my computer....

 

Thanks! And yeah, I forgot you were in SC at first. I have no idea if they are available there either. I didn't use heat much when I lived there.

And I was thinking more of saving your electric bill than heating the house so much. This thing puts out FAR more heat than I was expecting. I didn't want to heat my house to almost 90 all winter. I wanted to say fuck you to the oil companies and my $2,000+ yearly winter heating costs. Dropping $1,000 for a pellet stove when I have a nearly new, top of the line, oil furnace wasn't my plan either. But when I can heat my house for a month or more (if burning a bag a day, 1 ton of 50 bags would last 50 days) for $200 compared to $560+ for oil that would last the same amount of time it was the right thing to do. Oil is at least $3.75/gal and we have a 150 gal minimum delivery from all the local places. Pellets can be bought from at least a dozen stores near me for under $6/bag. So I can drop $60 on the way home and heat my house for 10 days.

 

that's so neat!! i would watch and play with one of those more than a television haha. . . and yeah that's smart about getting the heat off the pipe. i'll take a picture of me and my fathers rig back home next time im there. it's an old old heater. pretty much nothing more than a metal box around the actual stove with a hole with a fan blowing in and one blowing out. its got probably 12 ft of pipe running out the wall and we have fans blowing on that too. it's a very non aesthetic setup but it heats up our 25 ft high ceiling, 30x30, non insulated barn very well. i think it was 30 degrees one night last year and after a few hours we had it up to 72.

 

Hmmmm...... that's interesting. I would be worried in winter time wearing my boots with snow/mud on them & damaging the speakers.

 

I have always gotten cold when I'm not moving much

I can understand the pellet heater with the winters you have up there.

 

not by his description. it pulls outside air and only radiates heat inside. . . break out that credit card.

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