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.
There are differences though between wood pellets and traditional wood logs.
Produced by a backyard inventor it s pretty co.
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.
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.
Also the pellet stove should be removed not converted they are not made for wood.
In some cases you can install a wood pellet stove directly into your gas fireplace to take advantage of these benefits.
Scoop the hot pellets to one side with a metal scoop add new pellets next to the hot pellets.
If you have a pellet basket for your wood stove you can use it to burn pellets in the stove.
Reasons you may want to install a wood pellet stove in your existing gas fireplace for a number of reasons.
Simply place the basket in your wood stove fill it with wood pellets light the pellets with gel firestarter.
The hot pellets will ignite the new pellets.
The prometheus is a steel basket with its sides and bottom covered by thousands of honeycomb shaped airholes.
Add more pellets when needed.
I found 2 solutions.
How to burn pellet fuel in a wood stove.
You could get a wood stove but you are starting from scratch.