Convert Wood Stove To Pellet Stove

The photo shows a traditional open fireplace restored with a piazzetta pellet burning insert.

Convert wood stove to pellet stove.

Watch as steve maxwell tours a device for burning wood heating pellets in an ordinary woodstove or fireplace. It easily lights and is made to work passively with your wood stove or fire place. You can then add pellets to the stove where they will rest on the coals and ash rather than on the surface of the stove itself. One way to do so is to build a wood fire in the stove first and allow it to create a bed of coals on the bottom of the stove.

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. The pelleteer takes the hassle out of your wood stove. Produced by a backyard inventor it s pretty co. It s no longer necessary to put wood in the firebox once an hour in order to keep the fire going.

Some of the great benefits you ll notice straight away when you convert your wood burning fireplace into a pellet fireplace. The prometheus is a steel basket with its sides and bottom covered by thousands of honeycomb shaped airholes. It doesn t require an external blower or any attachments. Wood still works without electricity pellet stoves don t.

You cannot convert them i have a pellet system and it is far superior to a wood burning system be mindful that wood used in the gasifying type has to be very dry if you mean say for instance. Conveniently burn wood pellet fuel instead of hauling around cord wood and fussing with kindling.