New non electric pellet stove - comments?

Hello
Interesting?
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I had a hard time getting past the beginning where all he did was yack about all the cool things he had on there. I finally got to where he talked about the stove itself. Sure, some of that stuff would be very nice to have, just don't make that the intro of the video (Everyone is a film critic )

I found out that the appearance of flames apparently scares women .

All that aside, if I were in the market for a pellet stove that I only ran during the depths of winter (or had a much bigger place that running the stove 24/7 was needed), then it would be great. And it certain would have been great when I was out of power for 3 days last winter. I'm sure it would be good for off-grid people too.

For my circumstances though, it's not practical. What would be practical for my circumstances is an electric start pellet stove, that if there is a power outage will go to gravity feed and keep itself going (just wouldn't have the temp control). Then when the power came back on, it would return to being a temperature regulated stove.

I'm just not the target market

 

My question on these gravity fed pellet stoves is the pellet burning efficiency for each heat level?
It takes a certain amount of air to mix with a certain amount of wood pellets.
Just like a car, it can be done mechanically but doing it with an electronic auger timing circuit for the pellet feed is very exact,
I am not saying this cannot be done mechanically without power but I would like to see those specs for comparison.
Also heat distribution is much harder to do without power. Heat activated fans do not have enough CFM to make much of a difference. The house I grew up in had Steam Radiators and yes it was nice and toasty right next to the radiator pipes but the temperature dropped dramatically when moving away from them.

 

And I would need a chimney.

 

I see the appeal from a noise aspect. The older I get the more certain noise gets to me depending on my mood or state of mind.

I suppose this would give the radiant heat of a wood stove without blower noise, and you don’t have to have wood stacks outside. No moisture meter for splits needed.