o/t window pellet stove

notjustair · Jan 18, 2012

Just at the farm store and saw a window pellet stove. A little larger than a window a/c unit. About $1200. Anyone seen one in use? I wonder how long you would have to use it to make up for it in gas/fuel oil/electricity costs.

Gun guru · Jan 18, 2012

You would be better off to just buy a full size unit to heat your whole house.
Wood pellets cost 1/2 of Propane to run. Assuming propane is $1.80 gallon.
I dont know about you but I would rather give my business to Americans that produce wood pellets rather than greedy oil companies and the Arabs that produce Propane.
The electric is about 1kw to run a pellet burner.
I have a US stove 45,000 btu pellet burner. Right now in my living room it is 72F (yes the pellet burner is running) And it is about +15f outside. Main Furnace is broke right now due to bad heat exchanger.
I have never seen the window unit you are talking about.
You can buy the full size pellet burners for $1500 or so, look online on where to purchase.

BushogPapa · Jan 18, 2012

What ever became of the stoves that burned shelled Corn..??
Always thought that would replace the pellet..

Ron.

Hoofer B · Jan 18, 2012

corn got too expensive.

john *.?-!.* cub owner · Jan 18, 2012

(quoted from post at 21:50:32 01/18/12) corn got too expensive.

ith the Federal subsidy on ethanol ended corn will go down.

Ron A Anderson · Jan 18, 2012

You would be well advised to buy a stand alone multi fuel stove that is designed to burn both corn or pellets. That window unit has been tried and talked about in both Hearth.com and i burn corn.com.
it has only 30,000 btus and a small hopper which means you will be adding fuel often. It is not a easy stove to maintain.

Sean Feeney · Jan 19, 2012

The United States imports about 10% of the propane consumed each year, with about 70% of that coming from Canada via pipeline and rail.

Rich_WI · Jan 19, 2012

(quoted from post at 18:50:25 01/18/12)Wood pellets cost 1/2 of Propane to run. Assuming propane is $1.80 gallon.

Not everybody can get pellets for $125 a ton though. I got pellets this year at $200 and thought I got lucky because corn was so expensive these last few years.

Before you buy a window pellet burner (or any heater), you might want to plug in your local fuel costs into this calculator to see what your costs would be with different fuels. http://www.builditsolar.com/References/Calculators/Fuels/FuelCompare.htm

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