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.
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.
Scoop the hot pellets to one side with a metal scoop add new pellets next to the hot pellets.
The prometheus is a steel basket with its sides and bottom covered by thousands of honeycomb shaped airholes.
Reasons you may want to install a wood pellet stove in your existing gas fireplace for a number of reasons.
There are differences though between wood pellets and traditional wood logs.
Add more pellets when needed.
If you have a pellet basket for your wood stove you can use it to burn pellets in the stove.
I found 2 solutions.
Simply place the basket in your wood stove fill it with wood pellets light the pellets with gel firestarter.
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.
Produced by a backyard inventor it s pretty co.
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.
The hot pellets will ignite the new pellets.
Pellet stoves have different chimney requirements.
You could get a wood stove but you are starting from scratch.
How to burn pellet fuel in a wood stove.