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Those are quite impressive numbers. Any particular reason they are not EPA certified?[/quote]
Here is where many people are very confused. Right now the EPA does not even have a test for hot air furnaces, and from talking to a few insiders with knowledge in the area EPA certification probably won't be required until 2014. Also it probably won't be an efficiency testing but rather an emissions test, because if your emissions are low your efficiency will be good. We hear it will probably require less than 5 grams of emissions per hour because if it goes any lower than that the majority of companies won't have the means, time, or ability to adhere and be forced to quit manufacturing their furnaces and in turn put them out of business. The Vapor Fire furnace line has been my career project for the past 30 years which includes thousands upon thousands of test burns and many design changes. With endless and I do mean endless work hours we were able to achieve less than 1 gram of emissions per hour which is unheard of.
Here is how we began our certification/testing process. In 2009 the opportunity evolved to offer the tax credit with efficiency certification so we decided to take use Intertek (Who runs 3 of the 5 approved efficiency testing sites in the country) and it's testing facility in Madison, WI. Once we received the great efficiency results we were asked if we would also like to have the emissions tested so we would have the information ahead of time for any changes that we would need to make or potential advertising we would like to do. Being a smaller company with limited means this was not an easy decision to make, because the cost is substantial. However we new that in order to survive and reach our goal of manufacturing the most efficient indoor wood furnace in the world and a truly green product we needed documented proof. This documented proof is located on our website where a PDF of the test results can be found.
Rest assured that when the opportunity becomes available for EPA certification we will be first in line. On a side note we have received recent calls from some of our competitors many of which, will have a lot of work to do by 2014, inquiring about the emissions testing process that we underwent.
Here is where many people are very confused. Right now the EPA does not even have a test for hot air furnaces, and from talking to a few insiders with knowledge in the area EPA certification probably won't be required until 2014. Also it probably won't be an efficiency testing but rather an emissions test, because if your emissions are low your efficiency will be good. We hear it will probably require less than 5 grams of emissions per hour because if it goes any lower than that the majority of companies won't have the means, time, or ability to adhere and be forced to quit manufacturing their furnaces and in turn put them out of business. The Vapor Fire furnace line has been my career project for the past 30 years which includes thousands upon thousands of test burns and many design changes. With endless and I do mean endless work hours we were able to achieve less than 1 gram of emissions per hour which is unheard of.
Here is how we began our certification/testing process. In 2009 the opportunity evolved to offer the tax credit with efficiency certification so we decided to take use Intertek (Who runs 3 of the 5 approved efficiency testing sites in the country) and it's testing facility in Madison, WI. Once we received the great efficiency results we were asked if we would also like to have the emissions tested so we would have the information ahead of time for any changes that we would need to make or potential advertising we would like to do. Being a smaller company with limited means this was not an easy decision to make, because the cost is substantial. However we new that in order to survive and reach our goal of manufacturing the most efficient indoor wood furnace in the world and a truly green product we needed documented proof. This documented proof is located on our website where a PDF of the test results can be found.
Rest assured that when the opportunity becomes available for EPA certification we will be first in line. On a side note we have received recent calls from some of our competitors many of which, will have a lot of work to do by 2014, inquiring about the emissions testing process that we underwent.
