BarnyardEngineering
Well-known Member
- Location
- Rochester, NY
I've got a Vermont Castings wood stove with one of those ceramic catalytic "combustors" in the top. Usually can get 2-3 years out of one, but this year we started with a new catalyst, and it's already plugged up and disintegrating.
These things are $140 a pop and up. It would be cheaper to heat with oil if we're going through 2-3 of these a year.
It has a bypass door that you open when loading the stove, but if you leave it open, it will go through an entire firebox of wood in minutes and shoot the heat all up the chimney.
Anybody done an "emissions delete" on their wood stove? I imagine a thick steel plate with some holes in it to replace the expensive ceramic thing, but how many holes and what size? This isn't something you can conveniently trial and error.
These things are $140 a pop and up. It would be cheaper to heat with oil if we're going through 2-3 of these a year.
It has a bypass door that you open when loading the stove, but if you leave it open, it will go through an entire firebox of wood in minutes and shoot the heat all up the chimney.
Anybody done an "emissions delete" on their wood stove? I imagine a thick steel plate with some holes in it to replace the expensive ceramic thing, but how many holes and what size? This isn't something you can conveniently trial and error.