Wood Burning Electronic Combustion Control Systems

[Todd]

Man staying connected with nature and self reliance has been burning wood for centuries. A skill honed out of a necessity for survival.
All to be replaced by a mindless, automated robotic function. Season wood well equals hot efficient burning.

Perhaps the processing of wood from trees to splits should be automated too? Why not? That would almost be cool, except one would need a gym membership or just sit on the couch, potatoed to the idiot box.

How much automation is needed in our daily lives? Just enough where we are dependent for survival. What's next? Automated campfires?
Perhaps we could just couch that to and go camping via virtual reality via couch bound.

No thanks. I prefer to exercise and use my mind. No need to shrink it down over generations to the size of a golf ball.

Well said! This is some of the reasons I moved to a more remote off grid location. I like the idea of being more self reliant and getting my lazy duff off the couch.

 

[all night moe]

Well said! This is some of the reasons I moved to a more remote off grid location. I like the idea of being more self reliant and getting my lazy duff off the couch.

LOL ....my duff gets a bit lazy in this extreme cold. Couching it right now.

Wish I had a heated shop. Some day.....

 

[vatmark]

I would think you would run it like you normally do now - the controller unit just maximizes your burning/heating/cooling.

I wonder how the companies that sell and back these controllers operate? They have sensors inside the house in various locations, sensors outside, and sensors inside the stove/flue. They can tie into other systems like heat pumps, oil burners, and fans. Then they can coordinate all of these things at the same time. Yes you would save on wood. Pretty interesting - a different way to wood burning. It is not just the stove but everything else in the house too.

Ok I did some research. With the Brunner if you have a power failure there is a 9V battery that puts the air control into fully open position(safe state). You can run the stove manually but you can not control the air. It stays in the fully open state.

 

[begreen]

German electronics work so well in cars after the warranty is up…

That’s why everybody wants 15 year old Mercedes cars!

Early BMWs and recent VW EVs had a lot of software problems. VW recently brought in US Rivian engineers to do some major recoding.

 

[stovelark]

They have automatic house heating systems now, they're called furnaces and boilers..... Don't understand the desire for your wood stove to be ran by automation, but to each his own. i've always thought VW's had lots of electrical issues throughout the years, but having a couple of Beetles and my Scirocco, I found out VW's are fun to drive, but ultra reliable? The Beetles were good, the Scirocco was poor, but fun to drive. Little bit of warmth coming to us this week, upper 30's whoop, whoop! Stay warm all.

 

[Highbeam]

They have automatic house heating systems now, they're called furnaces and boilers..... Don't understand the desire for your wood stove to be ran by automation, but to each his own. i've always thought VW's had lots of electrical issues throughout the years, but having a couple of Beetles and my Scirocco, I found out VW's are fun to drive, but ultra reliable? The Beetles were good, the Scirocco was poor, but fun to drive. Little bit of warmth coming to us this week, upper 30's whoop, whoop! Stay warm all.

My man! I too owned a scirocco, 1981, for my first car. Single windshield wiper, lug bolts, mechanical fuel injection, push down to get into reverse. Some good memories.