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Jt Lamb wrote:Pellet stoves are interesting, from a "why would you burn wood *this* way?" perspective ... I'd be hard-pressed to justify an expensive device (pellet stove), expensive wood (bags of pellets), and expensive operations (augers, electricity). If I did purchase one, the family would quickly make the feeding of it be yet another "boy job", as in "Oh, pellet boy! ... (fingers snapping in the background) ... another 40-pound bag, please."
A plain woodstove fits better with my inner "firestarter", and acres of woods helps further, but possibly this isn't on everyone's radar ...
To get back on subject, it would be very easy to have a backup to the electrical system in the form of an emergency power system (scales to any need), vs a "Rube Goldberg" solution that "powers" the pellet stove. The RG solution could be made to be kinetically pleasing, but that is the bailiwick of artists ... my attempts at artistry, unfortunately, involve lots of duct tape and bailing wire ... when I'm done the pellet stove would look like it was on its last legs.
A solar generator, a ryobi-like tool battery/inverter ... just about anything can power a pellet stove in an emergency (depending on the power requirements of course).
I think some (many?) on-grid folks don't consider continuity solutions during a power outage ... they just endure it, and the longer it is, the more complex the endurance response. Up to and including kicking the pellet stove to the curb?
Jt Lamb wrote:Pellet stoves are interesting, from a "why would you burn wood *this* way?" perspective ... I'd be hard-pressed to justify an expensive device (pellet stove), expensive wood (bags of pellets), and expensive operations (augers, electricity). If I did purchase one, the family would quickly make the feeding of it be yet another "boy job", as in "Oh, pellet boy! ... (fingers snapping in the background) ... another 40-pound bag, please."
A plain woodstove fits better with my inner "firestarter", and acres of woods helps further, but possibly this isn't on everyone's radar ...
To get back on subject, it would be very easy to have a backup to the electrical system in the form of an emergency power system (scales to any need), vs a "Rube Goldberg" solution that "powers" the pellet stove. The RG solution could be made to be kinetically pleasing, but that is the bailiwick of artists ... my attempts at artistry, unfortunately, involve lots of duct tape and bailing wire ... when I'm done the pellet stove would look like it was on its last legs.
A solar generator, a ryobi-like tool battery/inverter ... just about anything can power a pellet stove in an emergency (depending on the power requirements of course).
I think some (many?) on-grid folks don't consider continuity solutions during a power outage ... they just endure it, and the longer it is, the more complex the endurance response. Up to and including kicking the pellet stove to the curb?
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Skandi Rogers wrote:Mine doesn't it does a couple of turns and then stops, 10-15 seconds later it turns again. how often it turns depends on how hard the furnace is working If we're heating the entire house form cold the furnace will be running at 30KW and it will turn every 5-10 seconds, when everything is up to temeperature it's only running at 30% power and it will only feed fuel in every 20-30 seconds.
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Redhawk's excellent soil-building series
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Any clock repair men or women yet out there who could chime in on this solution.
These things aside, a person could make a generator using the same gearing concept. A fifty-five gallon drum filled with concrete, suspended by strong cables (I'd go the redundant route) could be lifted via a block and tackle too and could, probably, be used to generate enough power to keep a fridge cool, run a computer, turn on a bunch of lights or what have you.
I figure if I get the ideas out there, some more knowledgeable than me and wanting comfortable, fuel-less independence without compromising all things electric will take off with it.
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Jordan Holland wrote:
These things aside, a person could make a generator using the same gearing concept. A fifty-five gallon drum filled with concrete, suspended by strong cables (I'd go the redundant route) could be lifted via a block and tackle too and could, probably, be used to generate enough power to keep a fridge cool, run a computer, turn on a bunch of lights or what have you.
I figure if I get the ideas out there, some more knowledgeable than me and wanting comfortable, fuel-less independence without compromising all things electric will take off with it.
Yes, this is correct, but it is actually very old technology. Weights and clockwork springs were once used for things like playing music and turning rotisseries. Leonardo da Vinci's famous machines were drawn powered by such, since nothing better existed at the time.
For each horsepower, or 746 watts of power needed, a weight of 33,000 pounds will need one foot of travel per minute of use. Your 55 gallon drum of concrete would weigh 1100 pounds, so would need thirty feet of travel per minute.
George Yacus wrote:
That's not me, but here's a commercial off the shelf, gravity-fed, electricity free system in the $1700 range, with no expensive moving parts (allegedly). Picture is courtesy of the Wiseway Pellet Stove website; US Stove Company.
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Kelly Craig wrote:I had a wood burner in the daylight basement. On a whim, I stacked regular bricks on it to serve as a heat flywheel. Obviously, with enough bricks on and around the stove, the flywheel effect worked.
Actually, the whole basement was a heat flywheel. The concrete floor and walls took about three days to come up to steam, but, once they did, it took that long for everything to wind back down, with the fire out.
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