vanbc
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Post by vanbc on Dec 29, 2012 11:17:13 GMT -8
Hi my name is vanbc and I am a rocket stove addict. Have yet to make one (even out of coffee cans) but I've watched darn near every single youtube video on them. I'm a fan of the gravity fed systems and was curious to know if smoke enters the room through the feed chamber when the fire goes out? I wood be stoked (haha) if someone posted a video on youtube showing this. Thanks!
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Post by Donkey on Dec 29, 2012 12:24:48 GMT -8
It doesn't.
By the time the fire goes out, 1) there isn't smoke left TO enter the room (no fuel, no smoke) and 2) the stove, the internal works and (most importantly) the chimney are all warm and flowing in the right direction.
It should be quite difficult to reverse flow and push smoke into the room at this point..
I suppose one way to do it (assuming you would want to) is to cap off the chimney entirely, I don't think that a standard chimney damper would do it either, they have holes in them and are intentionally leaky for just this reason.
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hpmer
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Post by hpmer on Jan 7, 2013 15:43:35 GMT -8
How about CO from the coals? Would the natural draft handle this as well?
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Post by Donkey on Jan 7, 2013 17:16:56 GMT -8
How about CO from the coals? Would the natural draft handle this as well? Yep.. That's what I meant by my comments above. You can check what direction the machine is drafting with a candle flame, stick of incense, etc. It's pretty informative to check it out during various times of the burn cycle, starting from a cold stove, occasionally testing through to an hour or two after the fire dies out, even the following morning. |
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