Dear Darren Good to hear from you after so long.
>Burning the chip was however providing a much higher heat output than I require. I'm not sure how best to try to reduce this output and keep the stove burning efficiently. Close some of the primary air. The burn rate is dominated by the primary air supply. The amount of air you need is surprisingly small. If things are not leaky, you should be able to control the burn rate simply by closing the hole(s) providing primary air. Is it entering under the upper part of the grate (near you)? The pulsing you mentioned is probably bridging as you describe, but not for sure. You may need to spy on it for a while to find out. >From the sound of it your cube are not burning at a constant rate because the grate is not tilted enough to feed the wood by itself. You mentioned at some time that you might try wood cut to fit crossways in the hopper. Is this a viable loading patter? Super dry wood usually burns far too quickly anyway. How about getting some normal wood and see what happens. Regards Crispin _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://www.bioenergylists.org/
