Convert Wood Stove To Pellet Stove

It doesn t require an external blower or any attachments.

Convert wood stove to pellet stove.

Keep in mind that pellets are a manufactured product wheras wood can always be found somewhere in abundance. The prometheus is a steel basket with its sides and bottom covered by thousands of honeycomb shaped airholes. Produced by a backyard inventor it s pretty co. Some of the great benefits you ll notice straight away when you convert your wood burning fireplace into a pellet fireplace.

Conveniently burn wood pellet fuel instead of hauling around cord wood and fussing with kindling. 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. It s no longer necessary to put wood in the firebox once an hour in order to keep the fire going. One way to do so is to build a wood fire in the stove first and allow it to create a bed of coals on the bottom of the stove.

Different requirement because of the extreme possible heat temps in the flue. Wood still works without electricity pellet stoves don t. It easily lights and is made to work passively with your wood stove or fire place. You can then add pellets to the stove where they will rest on the coals and ash rather than on the surface of the stove itself.

Watch as steve maxwell tours a device for burning wood heating pellets in an ordinary woodstove or fireplace. The pelleteer takes the hassle out of your wood stove.