The photo shows a traditional open fireplace restored with a piazzetta pellet burning insert.
Convert wood stove to pellet stove.
Conveniently burn wood pellet fuel instead of hauling around cord wood and fussing with kindling.
Wood still works without electricity pellet stoves don t.
One way to do so is to build a wood fire in the stove first and allow it to create a bed of coals on the bottom of the stove.
It doesn t require an external blower or any attachments.
Some of the great benefits you ll notice straight away when you convert your wood burning fireplace into a pellet fireplace.
The prometheus is a steel basket with its sides and bottom covered by thousands of honeycomb shaped airholes.
The pelleteer takes the hassle out of your wood stove.
Different requirement because of the extreme possible heat temps in the flue.
Keep in mind that pellets are a manufactured product wheras wood can always be found somewhere in abundance.
There is no such animal as a conversion kit for going from pellet to wood or wood to pellet.
You cannot convert them i have a pellet system and it is far superior to a wood burning system be mindful that wood used in the gasifying type has to be very dry if you mean say for instance.
You can then add pellets to the stove where they will rest on the coals and ash rather than on the surface of the stove itself.
Burning pellets used to require a pellet stove but new hampshire based energex has created an add on product called prometheus that allows homeowners to convert any fireplace or wood burning stove to pellets.
It easily lights and is made to work passively with your wood stove or fire place.