Does anyone have any comparison experience between burning cherry pits versus wood pellets? I am going through roughly double what the dealer says I should be using.
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Never burnt them but I have been wanting to. Have you tried a bag of pellets to compare the two? This might be the only way to know for sure. On the pits, how did you dry them?
I have a Woodmaster AFS 1100 with a side hopper. It holds 4-5 bags of cherry pits. I am going through 5-6 bags of pits a day @ $4.50/bag. Wood Pellets are very scarce in my area, and pricey. The dealer I purchased my stove from also sells dried and bagged cherry pits.
pits should produce 8500 BTU per pound
That energy must be going someplace
A dealer is the last person I would trust for testimonial
have you done a heat loss calculation on you load to know what you SHOULD be burning per day to meet the demand?
That energy must be going someplace
A dealer is the last person I would trust for testimonial
have you done a heat loss calculation on you load to know what you SHOULD be burning per day to meet the demand?
cherry spitter said:
You can get it at (broken link removed to http://www.slantfin.com/heat-loss-software-get.html)
A help page is (broken link removed to http://www.slantfin.com/heat-loss-software-calculation.html)
The calculator seems to follow my energy consumption when using all propane and calculationg btu's per gallon of propane used.
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