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Heating with a wood stove doesn't really have a 'medium' setting. You get 100% while it's roaring away, and that slowly diminishes as the fuel burns down. (Ye
by UI_at_80x24 3y ago
Heating with a wood stove doesn't really have a 'medium' setting. You get 100% while it's roaring away, and that slowly diminishes as the fuel burns down. (Yes you can adjust dampers, and air-flow valves to "slow it down"; but that doesn't really work/happen.)
I've lived in a home heated by a wood stove for 10 years. You would build-up the stove so it blasts away, goto bed, and by morning there would be enough coals left to start it up again but quite chilly in the house.
There is nothing like it. I love it. I don't have the same access my father did to family farms, wood lots, and trees. Today I would look into rocket mass heaters. Spread that heat out and allow it to more slowly heat a house.
- petermcneeley 3y agoThis sounds all very "homesteading". If you automate various components including wood feed you could get a better experience.
- thsksbd 3y agoOr you do what slavs did for century and build a massive mud oven to trap the heat in.
- at_a_remove 3y agoBetter yet, bring back Feolite for ridiculous heat capacity in Calories per gram.
- Loughla 3y agoYes I'm aware. I grew up with a wood stove as a primary source of heat, and hated it. But that doesn't really address my issue. For an ambient wood stove, the heat is pushed through the house from one central spot (the stove). If you use a system to use that heat for power or something else, aren't you just going to cool your home?
- serpix 3y agoThe solution to this is and has been for centuries is to add mass to the stove.