got my stove in :)

[Briansol]

wood is over 300 /cord split/delivered, requires manual effort to put 2 logs in every half hour, etc etc. it's FAR more expensive, and far too time consuming to deal with.

i can literally leave this be for 2-3 days with 0 human interaction.
dumping a bag in takes all of 10 seconds.


stone age? not really...

if solar panels didn't cost 50 grand, i'd have them on my roof.
if the river by my house had more head (yes, its a water term for slope), I'd have a personal hydro-electric generator. I researched it heavily. my river is simply too 'flat'. i'd need about 10 more feet of drop off within my property lines... and it's simply not there.

 

[phyregod]

Well, if its really going to save you that much cash then more power to you.

This hook into central heat/air or is it just a stand alone in the corner kinda thing?

 

[efhondakid]

wood is over 300 /cord split/delivered, requires manual effort to put 2 logs in every half hour, etc etc. it's FAR more expensive, and far too time consuming to deal with.

i can literally leave this be for 2-3 days with 0 human interaction.
dumping a bag in takes all of 10 seconds.

It heats very well is what I was trying to get at, and a wood burning stove and this pellet type you have still work on the same basic principle.

 

[Briansol]

This hook into central heat/air or is it just a stand alone in the corner kinda thing?

lol, did you seriously just ask that?

do you not see ITS IN A FIREPLACE!?!?!?! lol


lol


damn southerners with no furnaces or basments... :shiver:

 

[phyregod]

I didn't click the link and look. My bad.

That thing really heats your whole house?

Nevermind. Just read the other thread.

 

[K2e2vin]

We might have to get one of those. We have natural gas but a couple of winters ago when he had a huge ice storm, we pretty much had no heat(central heat/air) for about a week. I was sleeping next to a candle for heat. Something like that would be pretty nice, and quieter and cheaper than a generator running all night to power the central heating system.

Do those pellets have a "shelf" life?

 

[neonmike]

the problem with losing power is you would still not have any heat. the unit runs off a wall plug to power the auger that feeds the pellets. You could get a battery backup for them though but they only last about 9 hours and if you have no power for days then your up shits creek.

 

[Drake]

the problem with losing power is you would still not have any heat. the unit runs off a wall plug to power the auger that feeds the pellets. You could get a battery backup for them though but they only last about 9 hours and if you have no power for days then your up shits creek.

You could try and rig up an hand crank to run the auger maybe. Or manually feed the pellets into the stove I would think.

 

[Briansol]

lol... no. not unless you want to sit there and dump 2-5 pellets in every 30 seconds

 

[reikoshea]

put a pot of boiling water on the stove, have it heat the water to make steam to power a turbine to provide electricity for the auger.

there you have it.

 

[E_SolSi]

put a pot of boiling water on the stove, have it heat the water to make steam to power a turbine to provide electricity for the auger.

there you have it.

electric stove

 

[Drake]

lol... no. not unless you want to sit there and dump 2-5 pellets in every 30 seconds

Fair enough. Hit up the Home Depot parking lot, I bet you could find someone to work as an auger.

 

[reikoshea]

electric stove

if there are pellets in the stove, is the top not hot enough to boil water?

 

[Briansol]

i doubt it would boil.

it gets hot... but i don't think its that hot

 

[hosmer]

those things work the balls...my in-laws have one in the NH house


-only downfall is the goddamn "tink-tink" noise they make every 8 seconds when they drop the pellets in

 

[Briansol]

heh, you can't hear it over the fan... its not a big deal

 

[totalburnout]

i doubt it would boil.

it gets hot... but i don't think its that hot

I didn't click the link, if its a metal top it can get that hot.

My ex-girlfriend's family had one at their lake house in PA. Her father always complained how inefficient it was because you had to be near the pellet stove and that it was not cheap to feed.

 

[EGProject]

My parent's just had one installed, and it is badass. Basically will cut the heating oil bills in half, possibly more if they can deal with a bit of a chill.

B, have you looking into geo-thermal heating/cooling? Not the "pipe into hot rocks", but the system that uses tubes burried deep underground, below the frost line to absorb heat in the summer, and to warm up the water to around 57 degrees in the winter.

 

[BigJ]

My grandparents have had one for all my life. They love it to death.

 

[90 accord]

so random southerner question.... why not have an electric heater like we do down here? not efficient for the temps up there or?