Add more pellets when needed.
Can you convert a wood stove to pellet.
The prometheus is a steel basket with its sides and bottom covered by thousands of honeycomb shaped airholes.
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.
How to burn pellet fuel in a wood stove.
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There are differences though between wood pellets and traditional wood logs.
If you have a pellet basket for your wood stove you can use it to burn pellets in the stove.
However just opening your stove and tossing a few wood pellets into it can cause serious damage to the stove.
The hot pellets will ignite the new pellets.
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.
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.
In some cases you can install a wood pellet stove directly into your gas fireplace to take advantage of these benefits.
Pellet stoves have different chimney requirements.
Scoop the hot pellets to one side with a metal scoop add new pellets next to the hot pellets.
Simply place the basket in your wood stove fill it with wood pellets light the pellets with gel firestarter.
Also the pellet stove should be removed not converted they are not made for wood.
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