NEWS : The Spirit 500 Wood Pellet Stove Details From Bosca Chile

The design of the Spirit 500 is very sleek and attractive, Bosca are pitching this particular pellet stove to consumers looking for a more modern looking heating appliance than to replicate the looks of a traditional wood log stove. The stove features a large glass front to view the fire, and it also enables the user to check that combustion is going to plan. An integrated air wash system is also built into the stove to keep the glass clean, and also improve heat transfer into the room. The burn rate of the Spirit 500 ranges from just under a pound per hour up to just under 5 lbs per hour. This enables the Bosca stove to provide a heat output which ranges from 8200 Btu's per hour up to 40,000 Btu's. This means with this sort of heat output the stove can comfortably heat an area of 1500 to 1800 square feet. As you would expect, the Bosca Spirit 500 has been tested and given an official efficiency rating of 85% by the EPA which is around average.

The Other Facts and Figures on The Bosca Spirit 500 Wood Pellet Stove

The particulate emissions of the pellet stove are very low at only 1.2g/h, this is much less than any other log or coal solid fuel stove, and one of the key benefits of pellets. In the future when torrefied fuel pellets become available, the particulate emissions will be even lower. The wood pellet fuel hopper designed into the Spirit 500 is only 40lb's this is below the industry average of 55lbs, and some of the competition are up to the 60-80lb mark. This is a down side to this particular stove as it does considerably reduce the running time of the stove and increase the frequency of fill ups. However the stove does feature a fairly powerful convection blower, to get the heat around the property. Other automated and controlled features of the stove include a exhaust temperature sensor and auto-shutdown feature. The stove does also feature an easy ash removal system. However the capabilities of the stove with regard to what level of ash it can handle effectively are widely unknown. Therefore its hard to see the Spirit 500 as your best available option, but it maybe worth considering.

Why Is Fuel Choice Important To The Usable Life Of The Pellet Stove?

When you first started to look into purchasing a pellet stove, the fuel which was stated will have been premium grade wood pellet fuel. This grade of fuel is the lowest ash and therefore the lowest maintenance. Pellet stove and boiler manufactures like to state the performance figures of their products on this grade of fuel as it provides the closest comparison to an oil system. However, only talking about premium pellets is really no taking advantage of the principle of pellet fuel, as so many other biomass resources can be compressed into pellet fuel form. However the complications come from the fact that some manufactures do not even consider using biomass pellets, and they will definitely be a popular consumer fuel of the future, mainly due to the low cost. As some pellet burners are not designed to use these fuel pellets you would be purchasing a pellet burner which would be obsolete in a couple of years. This is obviously not a scenario you want to be in, therefore you need the knowledge to avoid these systems and purchase more fuel flexible wood pellet burners.

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