BLIMP said:yesterday i emailed PFI asking for test info & how the btu content was determined. Might call Gil Wood tomorrow
BLIMP said:yesterday i emailed PFI asking for test info & how the btu content was determined. Might call Gil Wood tomorrow
BLIMP said:Tried Gil WOod today & left a message. Have also posted here requests for PFI or inhouse testing procedures which determine the btu of the pellets & getting no info. Must be a company secret? LOLOLO....IF I MANUFACTURED PELLETS & AN INDEPENDENT LAB WAS EVALUATING THEM, I'D SURELY BE FAMILIARIZED WITH THE PROCEDURE SO TO VERIFY AT MY END= I AINT GETTING ANY FACTUAL RESPONSES SO I WONDER WHY.
yelling can result in ear damage, capitals on print cant.I WANNA KNOW THE SPECS OF PFI OR INHOUSE TESTING IS DONE TO DETERMINE BTU CONTENT but its not readily availablej-takeman said:BLIMP said:Tried Gil WOod today & left a message. Have also posted here requests for PFI or inhouse testing procedures which determine the btu of the pellets & getting no info. Must be a company secret? LOLOLO....IF I MANUFACTURED PELLETS & AN INDEPENDENT LAB WAS EVALUATING THEM, I'D SURELY BE FAMILIARIZED WITH THE PROCEDURE SO TO VERIFY AT MY END= I AINT GETTING ANY FACTUAL RESPONSES SO I WONDER WHY.
Here you go again yelling at us here and it has nothing to do with us poor folk. We here just buy them and burn them just like you do. You need to go yell at the peoples that made said pellet that has made BLIMP mad!
My biggest grip has always been that the manufacturers sent the sample in and there was no verification that was what I was getting when I bought said pellet. Now you know why "me test" and trust no one. I have no squabble with PFI. I just feel someone needs to police the manufacturer's a bit more. Pook taught me to trust NO ONE but myself! ;-)
BLIMP said:yelling can result in ear damage, capitals on print cant.I WANNA KNOW THE SPECS OF PFI OR INHOUSE TESTING IS DONE TO DETERMINE BTU CONTENT but its not readily availablej-takeman said:BLIMP said:Tried Gil WOod today & left a message. Have also posted here requests for PFI or inhouse testing procedures which determine the btu of the pellets & getting no info. Must be a company secret? LOLOLO....IF I MANUFACTURED PELLETS & AN INDEPENDENT LAB WAS EVALUATING THEM, I'D SURELY BE FAMILIARIZED WITH THE PROCEDURE SO TO VERIFY AT MY END= I AINT GETTING ANY FACTUAL RESPONSES SO I WONDER WHY.
Here you go again yelling at us here and it has nothing to do with us poor folk. We here just buy them and burn them just like you do. You need to go yell at the peoples that made said pellet that has made BLIMP mad!
My biggest grip has always been that the manufacturers sent the sample in and there was no verification that was what I was getting when I bought said pellet. Now you know why "me test" and trust no one. I have no squabble with PFI. I just feel someone needs to police the manufacturer's a bit more. Pook taught me to trust NO ONE but myself! ;-)
BLIMP said:just talked to TWINPORTS LAB & they use a "bomb calorimeter" [$25K] to determine btu content. It dont involve weather factors.
LOLOLOL....try humidity,temp., & wind . combustion airflow is adjustable, weather is not.smwilliamson said:Weather conditions would make a difference, such as high pressure and low pressure; the same as altitude will make a difference. It all has to do with oxygen levels. No fire without oxygen.
j-takeman said:BLIMP said:just talked to TWINPORTS LAB & they use a "bomb calorimeter" [$25K] to determine btu content. It dont involve weather factors.
Like I said I kinda thinx you wouldn't except there answer. With the caloric test(water and beaker way) Wouldn't the weather be equalized? You are measuring room temp water then measuring how much its raised to determine the calories. Your just measuring the actual rise in temp. Plus I highly doubt the weather actually varies the caloric value all that much. Kind like your all wood has the "SAME" BTU value. So close it might not make much of a difference or would you actually be able to measure the difference?
BLIMP said:Twinports chemist said= pellets are crushed & recompressed prior to testing. your testing ,i thnik, ignored density
so i questioned the validity of the results... ash & humidity content do make a diffference in btu content, age of sawdust doesnt- to a reasonable degree i'd think .
Weather conditions do affect results & this is why they spend $25k instead of burning in a pellet stove to do the certified pellet lab evaluations
BLIMP said:TP chemist also said they tried to get Pmanufacturers to buy their own bomb calorimeters if only to standardize their results from batch to batch. Corinth told me they test every 3months thru TP but do inhouse testing for ash content only for different batches i think. I'm not saying your tests have no validity but just want u to be aware of different factors that affect your method.
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