Highbeam said:Great news. Did you get any more info about it? Like how big or when we can expect it? Is it top or rear venting? Any little bit of info would be great. I love my heritage but I would also love a cat stove.
The only info they would give me is that it would be ready for the next burn season and possible the most efficient stove they made yetHighbeam said:Great news. Did you get any more info about it? Like how big or when we can expect it? Is it top or rear venting? Any little bit of info would be great. I love my heritage but I would also love a cat stove.
Slow1 said:Ohhhh man. IF it does come out and is much larger without increasing clearances I'm going to be SOOO tempted. My wife is going to have a serious fit!
dr.drew said:The only info they would give me is that it would be ready for the next burn season and possible the most efficient stove they made yetHighbeam said:Great news. Did you get any more info about it? Like how big or when we can expect it? Is it top or rear venting? Any little bit of info would be great. I love my heritage but I would also love a cat stove.
BrowningBAR said:dr.drew said:The only info they would give me is that it would be ready for the next burn season and possible the most efficient stove they made yetHighbeam said:Great news. Did you get any more info about it? Like how big or when we can expect it? Is it top or rear venting? Any little bit of info would be great. I love my heritage but I would also love a cat stove.
Next burn season? Kind of surprising.
Backwoods Savage said:Dr, I'll see if I can get any information and will post here or on a new thread if they give anything.
Highbeam said:A little larger, 25%, will satisfy many folks though. The current offering is rated by woodstock for a dinky house and uses pretty dinky wood relative to other full sized cat stoves. It's hard to take it seriously. I don't think that we need to compare it to the larger non-cat stoves simply because the actual max output of the stove is pretty meaningless for your typical cat stove buyer. Cripes, the big 4.6 CF BKK is only rated for 2500 SF. The kind of person that would buy a cat stove is very rare, indeed a very small minority of buyers, and we want long burn times. Those long burn times happen with bigger fireboxes.
I just hope they don't screw it up while trying to gain efficiency, like by adding unregulated secondary air tubes which will ruin the low heat cruises that attracts us to cat stoves. Who cares if the thing is half a hair more efficient? The WS line is already super efficient. I do hope that they make it more efficient by employing an automatic thermostat like the BK.
I am also hoping hoping hoping for a top exit flue and good rear clearances.
Ah, stove dreaming. Wife will even let me have a BK now if I quit griping. She bought off on the fireview a long time ago, we do love the stone stoves.
Yeah if the next stove had an auto thermostat that would be greatHighbeam said:A little larger, 25%, will satisfy many folks though. The current offering is rated by woodstock for a dinky house and uses pretty dinky wood relative to other full sized cat stoves. It's hard to take it seriously. I don't think that we need to compare it to the larger non-cat stoves simply because the actual max output of the stove is pretty meaningless for your typical cat stove buyer. Cripes, the big 4.6 CF BKK is only rated for 2500 SF. The kind of person that would buy a cat stove is very rare, indeed a very small minority of buyers, and we want long burn times. Those long burn times happen with bigger fireboxes.
I just hope they don't screw it up while trying to gain efficiency, like by adding unregulated secondary air tubes which will ruin the low heat cruises that attracts us to cat stoves. Who cares if the thing is half a hair more efficient? The WS line is already super efficient. I do hope that they make it more efficient by employing an automatic thermostat like the BK.
I am also hoping hoping hoping for a top exit flue and good rear clearances.
Ah, stove dreaming. Wife will even let me have a BK now if I quit griping. She bought off on the fireview a long time ago, we do love the stone stoves.
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