Secondary Combustion Designs: Tubular Manifold versus Solid Plate with holes

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pellethead said:
Corie,

For what it may be worth, last year Vermont Castings/Majestic came out with a new non-catalytic burn chamber design which they call "EverBurn". They claim much longer burn times with this burn chamber design as compared to other brands of non-cat stoves. Anyway. if you are really interested in this stuff, you should certainly stick your head into a Vermont Castings stove with "EverBurn" to see the design. Let us know what you find - tubes? baffles? or ?

The reason I mention this is that it appears that Vermont Castings has winner with the "EverBurn" burn chamber as they are selling a lot of stoves with EverBurn.

Harman also has a secondary burn chamber in the back of their stoves. Must be similar to VC's.
 
Back in the mid 90's I had an Energy King wood stove with a 3.2 cu ft fire box. It didn't have a steel baffle with holes or tubes. It had a metal strip shaped as a "T" with holes running through. Then there were firebricks resting on top of it creating the insulating heat for secondary combustion. I thought it burned great, even on low it always had lively flames and clean glass. Later when I moved and started looking at stoves, Energy King changed their design and went to a cat stove.

Corie,
If it's a challenge you want maybe you could incorporate both technologies, cat and non-cat? Then make it a top loader with a grill/rotisserie option?
 
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