Watch as steve maxwell tours a device for burning wood heating pellets in an ordinary woodstove or fireplace.
Can you convert a wood stove to pellet.
If you have a pellet basket for your wood stove you can use it to burn pellets in the stove.
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.
Produced by a backyard inventor it s pretty co.
Also the pellet stove should be removed not converted they are not made for wood.
I found 2 solutions.
Scoop the hot pellets to one side with a metal scoop add new pellets next to the hot pellets.
Reasons you may want to install a wood pellet stove in your existing gas fireplace for a number of reasons.
The prometheus is a steel basket with its sides and bottom covered by thousands of honeycomb shaped airholes.
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.
There are differences though between wood pellets and traditional wood logs.
The hot pellets will ignite the new pellets.
How to burn pellet fuel in a wood stove.
Add more pellets when needed.
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.
You could get a wood stove but you are starting from scratch.