How To Run A Pellet Stove During A Power Outage

[Colt Carbine]

How To Run A Pellet Stove During A Power Outage

How to run a pellet stove during a power outage. Here's how to get the watts / amps consumption, and instructions how-to get it all set up.

modernsurvivalblog.com

Some pellet stoves have a factory supplied connection for DC. Folks with a generator need not apply, LOL.

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[Mark W.]

Yep last year when the ICE storm hit here in Silverton 10 min after the power poles down the street snapped and we lost power I was at NAPA buying a 500 watt inverter. Came home and hooked up to the Series 31 Battery I had just bought for my Willys Jeep 950CCA We then went to charging that battery and running the inverter with the pickup. Only thing we ran was the pellet stove. Everything in the Freezer was fine being its out in the unheated laundry and we only opened it once in the 72 hours we were without power. The fridge stuff went into Ice chests and moved to the laundry room. House stayed about 50 degrees and we lost no food. Cooked on the Colemen using three 1lb bottles I had in the stash.

I have since bought a 2000 watt inverter style generator. And kitted it out for a 3 day outage.

 

[kmk1012]

Yep, small suitcase generator kept my family warm and our food cold for a week with the pellet stove. I ordered a bigger generator that will run our well, should be here Tuesday. Plus, be sure to have plenty of clear gas on hand. We have 20 gallons in jugs and 40 more gallons in the boat for prolonged outages (great way to store fuel-fill the boat before winter).

 

[Certaindeaf]

It's way way too complicated to provide electricity for things that require electricity.







Lol

 

[Capn Jack]

I ran my pellet stove for several hours once with an old tube type inverter I got out of a dumpster and my boat batteries.

Then I broke down and bought a 5,000 gen set. and a distribution panel.

Drives the neighbor crazy...

 

[The Heretic]

IMO, for me at least, a wood stove has several advantages over a pellet stove:

1) requires no electricity

2) fuel is plentiful and replenishable from my land and surrounding land - if SHTF and I was unable to get to fuel supplies, I could still stay plenty warm inside the house, for years, just on the wood that grows on my land. Indeed, I have so much wood, that much of it rots before I can use it.

I still need a genset, for refrigeration and water, but if I start a fire in the morning, get the house up into the 60s during the day, the house will still be in the mid 50s in the morning.

The main downside is the amount of work necessary to collect and process the firewood.

 

[orygun]

Yep, small suitcase generator kept my family warm and our food cold for a week with the pellet stove. I ordered a bigger generator that will run our well, should be here Tuesday. Plus, be sure to have plenty of clear gas on hand. We have 20 gallons in jugs and 40 more gallons in the boat for prolonged outages (great way to store fuel-fill the boat before winter).

I make sure the motorhome is full when I park it for the winter. It's an 80 gallon stash.

 

[Nosferatu]

We have a propane fireplace that is our main heat source, alongside some electric oil heaters.

When the power goes out, we have zero issues.

We also have the travel trailer to stay in as a backup should it get really squirrely.

 

[orygun]

We also have the travel trailer to stay in as a backup should it get really squirrely.

Things were "squirrely" here last year. Power was out for 9 days. We had no problem moving into the motorhome and were extremely thankful for it. I ran power from it to the fridge in the house and the freezer in the shop.

 

[Nick Burkhardt]

If you want to go the solar route, this is the minimum system that I would recommend

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[kmk1012]

IMO, for me at least, a wood stove has several advantages over a pellet stove:

1) requires no electricity

2) fuel is plentiful and replenishable from my land and surrounding land - if SHTF and I was unable to get to fuel supplies, I could still stay plenty warm inside the house, for years, just on the wood that grows on my land. Indeed, I have so much wood, that much of it rots before I can use it.

I still need a genset, for refrigeration and water, but if I start a fire in the morning, get the house up into the 60s during the day, the house will still be in the mid 50s in the morning.

The main downside is the amount of work necessary to collect and process the firewood.

I get your point about not needing electricity for a wood stove but if you have a busy life schedule a pellet stove is far superior. No stacking or wood cutting, just grab a bag once a day and you're good. No constant trips to the wood pile, etc. to each their own though. Really can't beat the great heat standing in front of a wood stove though.

 

[Capn Jack]

The only downside to my pellet stove was the space 1 ton of pellets (42 bags) took up in my garage. I started to maintain a stash when one spring I got low and the local stores informed me they didn't have any in stock, as "Pellets were a seasonal item".

 

[kmk1012]

The only downside to my pellet stove was the space 1 ton of pellets (42 bags) took up in my garage. I started to maintain a stash when one spring I got low and the local stores informed me they didn't have any in stock, as "Pellets were a seasonal item".

Very true on space but we bring a weeks worth form the shop to the garage with the quad, or at least the kiddos get to. We always stock up on them before winter as you never know what it'll bring.

 

[The Heretic]

I get your point about not needing electricity for a wood stove but if you have a busy life schedule a pellet stove is far superior. No stacking or wood cutting, just grab a bag once a day and you're good. No constant trips to the wood pile, etc. to each their own though. Really can't beat the great heat standing in front of a wood stove though.

Totally agree.

Before I retired I mostly used my furnace except on weekends. Much more convenient to just get up in the AM and push a button, then again when I left for work, then when I came home. Each time I only ran the furnace for an hour or two.

But now I am retired, and even if I worked, I would work from home. So starting the fire and restocking it are not a big deal. It takes me about a day to cut/split/move/stack about a week's worth of wood, and that includes taking very frequents long breaks. Then for a few days I am sore - but it is decent exercise.

There is one pellet stove that does not need electricity to run, but requires a blow torch to start it.

US Stove Wiseway 2,000 sq. ft. 40,000 BTU Non Electric Gravity Fed Pellet Stove GW1949 - The Home Depot

The GW1949 Wiseway from US Stove eliminates the need for electricity by utilizing a natural gravity feed system that eliminates all of the typical electrical and mechanical parts found in traditional pellet heaters. This patented revolutionary design is the only EPA certified and UL Listed...

www.homedepot.com

 

[Stomper]

It's way way too complicated to provide electricity for things that require electricity.







Lol

Naw man, ya just gotta hold onto the prongs of an extension cord and rub an inflated balloon in your hair.

 

[Mark W.]

IMO, for me at least, a wood stove has several advantages over a pellet stove:

1) requires no electricity

2) fuel is plentiful and replenishable from my land and surrounding land - if SHTF and I was unable to get to fuel supplies, I could still stay plenty warm inside the house, for years, just on the wood that grows on my land. Indeed, I have so much wood, that much of it rots before I can use it.

I still need a genset, for refrigeration and water, but if I start a fire in the morning, get the house up into the 60s during the day, the house will still be in the mid 50s in the morning.

The main downside is the amount of work necessary to collect and process the firewood.

We started out with a wood stove. But after 4 years of hustling wood to keep it going when living on a cramped 57.5' x 105' city lot. I made the choice to switch to a pellet stove. We average 2.25 to 2.5 tons of pellets to heat the house a year. Which shows up on a truck and for a $50 delivery fee they stack it in my carport. I move about half into a storage bin in the laundry home. The rest gets used up from the carport. No bugs no splitting wood no feeding the stove but once a day. Etc.

 

[41mag]

Etc.

also, with the Blessed Fire Wood, no gym fees, no running to put on your gym togs before heading to the 'splitting & step machine' , no need to take extra exercise jogging sessions, no worry about getting a paper cut on the cuticles when breaking a new bagOpellets open... And each stick of fire wood is just like another little bundle of sunshine....
We've been running a wood stove since Prez. Nixon. Now long retired, it's really decent exercise year round.

 

[The Heretic]

We started out with a wood stove. But after 4 years of hustling wood to keep it going when living on a cramped 57.5' x 105' city lot. I made the choice to switch to a pellet stove. We average 2.25 to 2.5 tons of pellets to heat the house a year. Which shows up on a truck and for a $50 delivery fee they stack it in my carport. I move about half into a storage bin in the laundry home. The rest gets used up for the carport. No bugs no splitting wood no feeding the stove but once a day. Etc.

All true, but I think more along the lines of self-reliance, and having a self-replenishing source of heating fuel is a benefit of a woodstove over a pellet stove - assuming that you have the acreage of trees to support it. Otherwise, a person could just have a big tank of propane or diesel as heating fuel, or a large genset running on either fuel and powering a heat pump.

 

[kmk1012]

All true, but I think more along the lines of self-reliance, and having a self-replenishing source of heating fuel is a benefit of a woodstove over a pellet stove

Unless your pellet stove is in a location originally set up for a wood fireplace, such as ours. If the pellet stove goes down, simpliy remove it and the smaller chimney insert and light a fire. Plenty of trees on our land, always have a burn pile at the ready. I realize not all situations are the same but we really thought out our recent purchase.

 

[Z-PDX]

i got this…

as long as the powerbars don't run out.