DS Machine Comfortmax 75 Update (on Wood)

 
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Post by lsayre » Sat. Feb. 27, 2016 7:44 pm

Keepaeyeonit wrote:Anymore updates on the ComfortMax Larry?
I haven't fired it since the first test run. Waiting for another cold spell.

 
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Post by McGiever » Sat. Feb. 27, 2016 8:41 pm

Heck Larry, Put an old incandescent light bulb or two in it and on a good sunny day let the solar panels warm up that stove a bit. :yes:

 
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Post by Hoytman » Wed. Mar. 22, 2017 10:05 am

lsayre wrote: I have even heard rumors that at least one major stove company has declared the sawdust blocks off limits in their EPA stoves and stated that using them voids the warranty.
Wonder which company that was?


 
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Post by lsayre » Wed. Mar. 22, 2017 1:02 pm

Off the top of my head it was Vermont Castings.

 
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Post by Lightning » Wed. Mar. 22, 2017 1:51 pm

Did you ever get any coal into that stove Larry?
It'd burn for days with a load a pea size in it, and it'd be much prettier too :)

 
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Post by lsayre » Wed. Mar. 22, 2017 3:22 pm

Lightning wrote:Did you ever get any coal into that stove Larry?
It'd burn for days with a load a pea size in it, and it'd be much prettier too :)
Only wood. Longest stint of running it has been 5 days.

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