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Have You Turned Your Heater On Yet?
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(01-11-2014, 06:21 PM)kadylady Wrote:(01-11-2014, 06:05 PM)chuck white Wrote: There is also petroleum jelly and cotton balls. That's what the ashtray is for, who smokers anymore OMG that's perfect example of how NOT to make a YouTube video. IF you want to make a video about how to make a fire starter then don't blab on and on about a bunch of BS that doesn't even pertain
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(01-11-2014, 06:41 PM)tvguy Wrote:(01-11-2014, 06:21 PM)kadylady Wrote:(01-11-2014, 06:05 PM)chuck white Wrote: There is also petroleum jelly and cotton balls. Hey. It DID take the "mystery" out of lighting cotton balls. That's a quote from the video.
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(01-11-2014, 01:18 PM)chuck white Wrote:(01-11-2014, 05:13 AM)PonderThis Wrote:(01-11-2014, 12:49 AM)chuck white Wrote: Gasoline has 116,090 BTU/ gal My wood stove is certified to be 86% efficient. I posted a chart with all of these figures on a previous thread, and they used an efficiency figure somewhat less than 86%, which made me think my stove might be on the high side of todays modern stoves (and, it's a pretty small one, which might be easier to make efficient? Only guessing here.)
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(01-11-2014, 09:19 PM)PonderThis Wrote:(01-11-2014, 01:18 PM)chuck white Wrote:(01-11-2014, 05:13 AM)PonderThis Wrote:(01-11-2014, 12:49 AM)chuck white Wrote: Gasoline has 116,090 BTU/ gal I bet that 86% efficient rating is it's best and not it's average.I think the type of wood and it's moisture content would be critical. My pellet stove is rated about the same. But the pellets are all identical and have an exact moisture content. And opposed to ANY wood stove I lose a lot less heat out of the chimney. This is why I can't begin to understand how a pellet stove can not be more efficient. Also an entire 40-pound bag of pellets produces less than a cup of ashes.
01-11-2014, 10:46 PM
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I'm pretty sure that efficiency and btu factor is figured at 12% wood moisture. The 86% efficiency is an EPA tested thing, I don't know how much it deviates from that, but I can't really imagine the EPA lets them get away with cherry picking the data, either.
I suspect I don't get much more than a cup worth of ashes for 40 pounds worth of wood either. I clean it out once a week or so and it's only about a shovel full.
01-11-2014, 11:07 PM
(01-11-2014, 10:46 PM)PonderThis Wrote: I'm pretty sure that efficiency and btu factor is figured at 12% wood moisture. The 86% efficiency is an EPA tested thing, I don't know how much it deviates from that, but I can't really imagine the EPA lets them get away with cherry picking the data, either. Quote:but I can't really imagine the EPA lets them get away with cherry picking the data, either I'm not saying they do but I think that efficiency rating is when everything is perfect. Like the type of wood and the moisture content. I've emptied the ashes out of my hopper once this year , It only holds a couple gallons or so. I have to remember to check that tomorrow. I'm not knocking a wood stove. If my house was bigger I would have one to use when it's REALLY cold or just to utilize all of the wood that I end up with for almost nothing. I just can't understand how a pellet stove with practically no heat being wasted by going up the chimney isn't more efficient than a wood stove that has a TON of heat being wasted.
01-11-2014, 11:21 PM
I realize you think the world revolves more around what you think than on the written certified labels on the back of modern wood stoves.
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