Just sort of curious, what are the most powerful stoves/inserts on the market? Haven't looked real hard, but the highest I've seen is 200,000 BTU potbelly by Vogelzang.
Highest BTU insert and stove?
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Todd
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Disregard those BTU numbers, you would have to stand there and reload your stove like an old steam locomotive to get those numbers. Best to just measure the fire box size, the bigger the fire box the more BTU's it can hold.
Fsappo
Minister of Fire
We sell the Hearthstone Equinox. I think its rated at 120k btus. It is a beautiful, huge radiant stove. We also sell the Enerzone 3.4 It comes standard with the blower and a true convection system. Its rated at 100K btus and having used it in my house, I believe it. That stove is a heating monster. What Todd said is really the most accurate. Go by firebox size for the most part. If you want to use a stove to really heat, disregard Chinazogolzang stoves.
I would think a pellet furnace might have the highest numbers. For example the Traeger Model GBU-130 Pellet Hot Air Furnace can be set from 85,000 to 130,000 BTU.
FyreBug
Minister of Fire
PastTense said:
These are probably 'Input BTU' what you want to look for in Pellet Furnace is 'Output BTU'. Basically, if 1 Lb of pellet is worth 8,000 BTU and your pellet furnace is 85% efficient your Max Output BTU is 6,800 BTU.
The Traeger unit is listed at 130,000 INPUT BTU at 80% efficiency which give you a Max Output BTU of 104,000 BTU.
The PSG Caddy Alterna lists Max Output at 108,000 BTU
my parents have old "Vulcan" brand wood furnace in the basement that isn't hooked up anymore (used to share a flue with the boiler in the Olden days). Firebox is well over 3ft cube. For BTU's it says "ridiculous hot".....so I think thats a lot. I've had it hot enough to help me forge a sword from an old ski pole.....not a good sword.....but it was cool to wave around. I never has eyebrows as a kid from that thing.
Dakotas Dad
Minister of Fire
Franks said:
E Q U I N O X....
I want to build a bigger house just so I can justify an Equinox...
Treacherous
Minister of Fire
Kuma Sequoia has a 3.6 cu ft firebox.
http://kumastoves.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=25
http://kumastoves.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=15
http://kumastoves.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=25
http://kumastoves.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=15
Todd
Minister of Fire
Vogelzang counts the BTUs from the burning house around the stove in their numbers for the pot belly.
krex1010
Minister of Fire
I always considered the btu numbers on woodstoves to be a worthless number. A stove doesn't put out btu's the wood does. So the bigger the firebox the bigger the heating potential.
FyreBug
Minister of Fire
My understanding is that the Enerzone 3.4 is the biggest EPA non-Cat available in the market. However, some made comments on a previous post there are larger Non-Cat. The comment made is how the measurements are made. It seems some MFG quote the Cu Ft without the bricks and baffle, which is odd since no one would burn a stove like that.
Does anyone have a link to that post?
Does anyone have a link to that post?
Dakotas Dad
Minister of Fire
FyreBug said:
Honestly, I have stuck my head in about two dozen non-cat EPA stoves, and the Equinox was the visably largest firebox I looked at. No measurements other than manufacturers. But that is a big old box. No firebrick in it, so the only "fudge they could have is the baffle.. based on my Homestead though, they measure with the baffle in place. My stove is rated at a 2.0cuft fire box, I came up with right about that.
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