My worry is not about leaving them run, but rather, especially on the Weeeee Stove that its fire pot needing to be cleared.
Normally about every 6-8 hours max the pot needs to be given a swish and the crap cleared.
After this the clinker will build up to the point that the shells start BACKING UP the drop tube.
This is not a good thing.
The fire then gets lazy and then clearing all the fuel in the tube makes a huge fire.
WE have to turn the unit on draft only and let it sit and burn out the pot, but this will still leave the materials up the tube.
As soon as the door is opened and the clinker kicked out of the pot all the shells in the tube fall into the pot and result in a HUUUUUUUUGE fire and Smoke Show (no pun intended)
This is a normal thing with the Prodigy running on shells.
The ADV 2T will run for a day or longer before ashes build up and start falling back into to pot.
If we are away for an evening out it's no biggy, as we clear the pot on Wee stove before we go and are going to be home in plenty of time.
But on occasion we head over to the Daughters to watch the kids for a day and it can run into much longer.
Being able to view the unit and how it's doing would be great, not to mention having a window on the place to see if anything other than GOOD is happening.
I have a renter down in the downstairs but do not generally ask her to come up unless there would be an emergency situation.
I do have a push button code lock set on the back door with some codes that only allow one entrance, so if it was a dire emergency I could get assistance if we were away.
All the tech is cool, except when it's failure is a big PITA
A camera/s would be a passive little helper.
My worry is can it be hacked by snoops or prying eyes of big brother ???
The answer is likely yes it can.
Anything that has a computer connected with it can be hacked if somebody wants to bad enough.
Ahhh well such is life in the "TECH ZONE"
Just think what sort of a shock our life style would be to folks that lived in the early 1900's
My folks got a little peek at the computer age as they bough my daughter her first computer in the late 80's
The saw the cell phone come along as I had one with me when trucking.
But the generation before that would have been aghast to even imagine what we have today.
Jump online, snoop Amazon, ebay or ????? a few mouse clicks and in a couple days or so the little Brown truck pulls up and tosses some boxes on your porch.
Never have to leave the comfort of your easy chair and almost anything can be procured.
My other half's grand parents never even owned a car, or a TV.
The radio was their only link to the world.
Oh how we have changed.
My grand parents heated their home for years with a sawdust burner.
The dust was blown into the bunker in the basement and grandpa scooped it into the hopper on the burner and it fed by gravity into the grate.
The heat was captured in a large "Bonnet" and it rose naturally from the basement to the various parts of the house.
No fans, no electricity, NO COMPUTER, just easy cheap warmth.
The only adjustments was a little lever device on the wall upstairs the controlled the amount of sawdust being delivered to the fire, and the floor registers.
OMG how did they ever stand the pace
