Wood Gasification test burns w/photos.

[valcas1]

There were some questions in one of my earlier posts about using a alky stove in my new wood gasification stove. So here are some brief test burns tonight.

First is the penny stove along with the wood burner and one 35mm film container full of alcohol.

Filled the stove with alcohol and dropped it into the wood stove and tried to fire it up.

Found out that the stove needed a priming pan to charge up and start to pressurize so this is the stove with some aluminum foil under it for a priming pan.

Starting to pressurize.

16 oz. of water in my sonpeak ti solo cup. and put on the burner.

Look at that burn pattern beautiful.

Slightly over 4 minute later we have this.

Here are my observations. The alky stove was not burning blue flames as usual. If you look at the pictures it actually looks like it is getting some benefit from the down draft of the wood gasafication stove. 16 oz. of water in under 5 minutes is impressive to me. I am really liking this stove. I would imagine that with 2.oz of alcohol I would be able to cook eggs for breakfast on this thing with a pan. I believe I am getting all the BTU's out fo this setup.

I must say I am just starting t play with diffeent combinations for stoves but so far this little set up is promising

To be continued...

 

[valcas1]

These stoves are designed to burn from the top down so I figured I would show you how I set mine up to light and make some boiled water.

First here is my fuel. As you can see it isn't much more than twigs and pencil sized sticks. There were four small pieces of wood that were thumb sized I put in first.

Fully loaded and a few slivers of fatwood for starting.

Starting to burn.

good burn going now.

No smoke, but lots of heat for that little bit of wood.

Not sure if you can see how it is burning the wood gas in this picture I tried to show it but not sure if I pulled it off.

Cool enough after burning for 15 mintues to do this.

Ended up with this.

 

[brians]

Good, lightweight, redundant combo. :thumbup:

 

[smcclown05]

Thanks for sharing some more info about this. It's very helpful.

It looks from the picture that the metal rack in the bottom of the cans holds the fuel wood about an inch off the bottom. Is that about right?

 

[valcas1]

It looks like this before I seat it in the bottom of the inner can.

Anything I can do to help the forum that has given me so much knowledge. It's my pleasure.

 

[valcas1]

Bump, because of renewed discussion.