Anyone Know What Kind of Btus Out of a Baseburner?

Im putting my 15" firebox Quick Time stove in the house this year.Does anyone know of how many BTU's a baseburner of this size will create?

mastiffdude wrote:Im putting my 15" firebox Quick Time stove in the house this year.Does anyone know of how many BTU's a baseburner of this size will create?

No one can answer that. All of the modern stoves on this side of the Atlantic have manufacturer provided BTU ratings that would be less than half of what they claim in these parts if they were on the opposite side of the Atlantic where real testing is done.

All of the heat you can get out of a stove resides within the coal to begin with (to the tune of about 12,300 BTU's per pound for anthracite, on an "as delivered" basis), and you simply can not magically extract BTU's from coal. The best you can do is calculate how many pounds you burn on the coldest day of the year, and go from there.

For example, if you burn 80 lbs. of coal on the coldest day of the year, then:

12,300 BTU's/Lb. x 80 lbs. / 24 hours = 41,000 BTU's per hour (as input).

Then multiply by say 70% (or 0.70) and guesstimate that you have a stove that is capable of delivering somewhere around 28,700 output BTU's per hour.

I know that a Crawford number 2 is equal to a Harman MK II as far as heat output. However it burns less coal to achieve this. The H MKII was "rated" at a max of 7OK BTU IIRC.