<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 July 2011 06:43, Fireside Hearth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:firesidehearthvashon@hotmail.com">firesidehearthvashon@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Dear Ron.....<br><br> What I have is 26 years of proven track record without the fancy language, or insults. I have created a stove, maybe by instinct, which works "damn well". I know what "pre" epa stoves did in our area, and what happened when certification came along. I was in the labs at Lopi and Avalon when they met their first certification challenge. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what burns dirty or clean, smoke out put is a great indicator. <br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Unfortunately smoke is one parameter - but in our indoor cooking stove world CO and NOx is as important. <br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div dir="ltr"> The best parameters I can give you would be what we are doing on a daily basis with this stove. If we burn a 5 lb log rated at 8500 btu/lb and a moisture content of approx 8% at a low run we have a burn time of up to 12 hours. During this burn our stove's cook top temps run up to 1150 deg.F. and the internal temps can run up to 1600.deg f.<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>but temperature is not the same as heat !<br> <br>Come back with some verified numbers - or the sciency stuff you decry is going to end up making you look like a snake oil salesman. From the basic math I showed you yesterday, your energy release is a maximum of 700W over the time you describe. <br>
<br>Stoves "running up to " is of zero interest - the pollution doesn't HAPPEN when the stove is running as hot as it can go. <br><br>You need burn temperature data logged over several runs, with different fuel loads, and with different fuel geometries. <br>
<br>As a small businessman myself, I have every sympathy with your position ! I would like you to have found the product with which you can make your fortune, but the from what you have shown here, you seem to be in great danger of believing in your product in the absence of good data. The ASTM produce some new tests for stove performance, I suggest you try and do them yourself.<br>
<br>Steve<br></div></div>