NEWS : Details On The Afton Bay Wood Pellet Stove By St.Croix

There are now quite a number of wood pellet stove manufacturers out there in the market place, including St.croix. St.croix produce a range of pellet stove and multi-fuel furnaces with various different heat outputs, one of those been the Afton Bay. This particular stove is part of the multi-fuel range from St.Croix, and it can burn cherry pits, corn and wood pellets. Specific features are this unit are its high stand, and large ash draw, this makes cleaning easier and also less frequent. The viewing window on the Afton Bay pellet stove is vast, this enables a good clear view of how well combustion is going and also a pleasant view of the fire with lots of light radiated into the room. The unit has the capabilities of a automatic ignition system and also can be manually lit if required. The hopper of the Afton Bay pellet stove holds 65lbs of pellets. This is enough to help the stove to run continuously for up to 54h. This is impressive compared to other stoves.

The amount of heat the stove can generate ranges between 10,000 and 40,000 Btu's. The area this size of stove is suitable for is around 1800 square feet. To disperse the heat around the room and property the stove has a blower fan. The fire transfers heat into a heat exchanger, and the blower fan carries air over the heat exchanger and into the room. The official heat rating of the stove is 78%, which is beyond the capabilities of all log stoves, but still not as high as some of their competition. Also, the stove is only available in black. Many of the other manufactures now have realised how important aesthetics is to consumers, and many pellet stoves are even been chosen as a decorative feature. Other features the stove has is the ability to monitor exhaust gas temperatures, this can help the stoves efficiency, and reduce the amount of heat sent up the chimney. To use this stove connecting it to a standard wall thermostat is sufficient, and the stove will regulate its heat to your desired level. Overall the Afton Bay wood pellet stove is a viable option for multi-fuel heating.

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Evaluating Burn Pot Design On Wood Pellet Stoves and Pellet Boilers

Once you have assessed if a pellet stove or boiler can generate the heat output you require the next step is to look into how actually the stove operates. Not all so called 'multi-fuel' stoves are actually up the job of reliably burning a wide range of fuels. The issues come from the wide changes in ash content and possible clinker formations which are generated from some fuels. For example, all fuel pellets have a very similar appearance, however they burn very very differently. Some people with their own small pellet mills now produce fuel pellets from lawn grass, now these can be the cheapest possible fuel pellets, but they can carry a high price for your pellet stove. Grass contains high amounts of chlorine, indicated by the bright green colour of the grass. During combustion the chlorine is turned into chloride, and this is a high temperature corrosive. Due to the volume of chlorine within the grass, after a few years, the pellet stove will be scrap. Also, these pellets produce an ash percentage most stoves simply can not deal with. Learn more about this in the pellet stove guide.

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