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.
Pellet stoves have different chimney requirements.
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.
However just opening your stove and tossing a few wood pellets into it can cause serious damage to the stove.
I found 2 solutions.
There are differences though between wood pellets and traditional wood logs.
A modern closed pellet fireplace in addition to saving you money won t make you miss out on the charm that only a wood fire can provide.
Produced by a backyard inventor it s pretty co.
Add more pellets when needed.
Also the pellet stove should be removed not converted they are not made for wood.
How to burn pellet fuel in a wood stove.
The prometheus is a steel basket with its sides and bottom covered by thousands of honeycomb shaped airholes.
Scoop the hot pellets to one side with a metal scoop add new pellets next to the hot pellets.
The hot pellets will ignite the new pellets.
If you have a pellet basket for your wood stove you can use it to burn pellets in the stove.
You could get a wood stove but you are starting from scratch.
Simply place the basket in your wood stove fill it with wood pellets light the pellets with gel firestarter.