I want to install a woodburning, or possibly multifuel, stove into an
existing fireplace. The flue will be running through the chimney of an
early victorian house for about 15m.

I would also really like the stove to be equipped with some kind of
electric servo motor which will allow it to be regulated by a room
thermostat and schedule timer.

Does such a product exist?

Peter brought next idea :
I want to install a woodburning, or possibly multifuel, stove into an
existing fireplace. The flue will be running through the chimney of an
early victorian house for about 15m.

I would also really like the stove to be equipped with some kind of
electric servo motor which will allow it to be regulated by a room
thermostat and schedule timer.

Does such a product exist?

Could you perhaps adapt a standard three port valve actuator unit +
standard thermostat + standard heating timeclock. Actuator with
mechanical linkage to the air damper.

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On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:16:53 +0100, Peter
wrote:

I want to install a woodburning, or possibly multifuel, stove into an
existing fireplace. The flue will be running through the chimney of an
early victorian house for about 15m.

I would also really like the stove to be equipped with some kind of
electric servo motor which will allow it to be regulated by a room
thermostat and schedule timer.

Does such a product exist?

You can get pellet stoves that do this, and woodchip stoves as well.
The woodchip ones have the advantage that you can make your own chips,
but they are more expensive as the chips are harder to feed into the
stove. They work by feeding the fuel at the correct rate, which is not
so easy if you use logs. To get an even heat with logs you use a log
boiler to heat a thermal store, then rads off that store.

Rick

Does such a product exist?

They were banging on about biomass fuel on on the TV news today - some new
report has come out pointing out the bloody obvious about how biomass is
quite a good idea as it is fairly CO2 release neutral, and the reporter
droid was sitting in front of a woodstove that he said was remote control
and could even be controlled by SMS text message so the house would be warm
when you came home. So I guess there are some new de velopments in the
field.

Henry

Rick wrote:
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:16:53 +0100, Peter
wrote:

I want to install a woodburning, or possibly multifuel, stove into an
existing fireplace. The flue will be running through the chimney of an
early victorian house for about 15m.

I would also really like the stove to be equipped with some kind of
electric servo motor which will allow it to be regulated by a room
thermostat and schedule timer.

Does such a product exist?

You can get pellet stoves that do this, and woodchip stoves as well.
The woodchip ones have the advantage that you can make your own chips,
but they are more expensive as the chips are harder to feed into the
stove. They work by feeding the fuel at the correct rate, which is not
so easy if you use logs. To get an even heat with logs you use a log
boiler to heat a thermal store, then rads off that store.

Rick

Controlling wood burn by reducing air supply causes a fall off of
efficiency and much increased pollution. Log type burners are best run
at full burn, then wait till another heat run is needed, ie by
controlling fuel feed.

The problem with wood is labour. Cost that up and you may be better off
paying for gas/oil.


NT

Controlling wood burn by reducing air supply causes a fall off of
efficiency and much increased pollution. Log type burners are best run
at full burn, then wait till another heat run is needed, ie by
controlling fuel feed.

Darn! I guess I suddenly understand the pellet feed system now.

It's just that living in the city, amongst the property developers, I
seem to have an abundance of skips with lots of wood available.

Peter wrote:
living in the city, amongst the property developers, I
seem to have an abundance of skips with lots of wood available.

That'll be the case for as long as you need it....

Peter wrote:
I want to install a woodburning, or possibly multifuel, stove into an
existing fireplace. The flue will be running through the chimney of an
early victorian house for about 15m.
I would also really like the stove to be equipped with some kind of
electric servo motor which will allow it to be regulated by a room
thermostat and schedule timer.
Hi don't know about the room thermostat but Euroheat produce a stove
that is controllable from a TV style remote and it can programme a
timer as well AND you can set the temp. V impressive demo in the back
of an artic truck with several stoves set up complete with chimneys. HTH