Thanks I will have him look at it. Anyone know the difference between the drolet and the osburn? Price really isn't an issue
I think it is just an aesthetic preference then. I think they would perform about the same.
They are both SBI stoves. It's kind of like the difference between a Chevrolet and a Buick, both GM cars. Underneath the two often share components, even the firebox on some.
As a chimney guy, have you ever had a customer that ran the stove pipe through a mass heater constructed out of clay bricks filled with cob? Most likely it would be vertical, rather than horizontal like the rocket stove mass heaters are usually. There must be some way to capture the heat radiating from the stove and stove pipe, so it slowly releases when the fire diminishes. Has anyone ever had such an idea?
You can't do that with a standard wood stove. They already run at low enough exhaust temp that extracting more heat from the exhaust would lead to massive amounts of creosote buildup. Masonry heaters burn at extremely high temperatures and dump that into the masonry mass. But the exhaust still needs to stay above the condensation point untill it exits the chimney.
Please explain “convective heater.” Does the PE Summit have a unique feature that is different, than other stoves with blowers? I’m going from a Vapor Fire 200 to a large stove, in an insulated basement.
Since being mild, there maybe times when you load it up and adjust it for a low fire. On the average, how long can a low fire go with the HT 3000? A friend offered me a 3 year old Vogelzang Ponderosa for $500. From the reviews that say mostly that buying that stove, was a “big mistake”, I’ll go with the HT 3000 from Northern Tool. I wish Northern Tool sold the Osburn 3500. Since both are made in the same factory, perhaps they are built the same, just a different size?
If efficiency and emissions are the same or very close, I wonder what the difference actually is?
