i generally run it with two batches twice a day if its very cold and then once a day when its not so cold. but its Mediterranean climate here so not really that cold

thanks

no es por nada mas que con el fuego se oxida y lo tengo que cambiar cada año, ese año aun no lo habia vuelto a poner

the secondary air channel has replaced the p channel as far as i remember Peter saying. it pops out just infront of the small opening before small opening at the back

what makes a rocket heater a rocket heater is the noise...listen😉

It very much is a rocket stove it creates a double vortex burn and is the most efficient rocket stove or wood stove in general. Even more so than a natural gas stove. This thing puts out a ton of btu's. The heat riser (stove pipe) has temps of over 2000 degrees F. This is why they no longer recommend using a steel heat riser (stove pipe) use only fire brick or ceramic fiber. The idea with a batch box is to burn it's load as fast and hot as possible and load your thermal mass with as much heat as you can. Burn time for a typical load is 45 min. These things are incredible!.

So you have to keep filling it every 45 minutes fir how long? 3-5 times then the heat mass should be good for the day or night?

@@maverickgood5204 Only once or twice a day, unless it's extremely cold out.

The idea of a rocket heater is to burn hot and intense and then the exhaust gases heat the mass. Not the fire itself. Rather the opposite actually since the core is isolated in most builds.

I certainly do it differently, and for the following reasons: firewood consists of many combustible compounds in a sponge of charcoal. When you heat all the wood at once, you can never feed the fire enough oxygen to burn all these compounds that are exiting the wood as smoke. So you want to build a fire that gradually heats the wood to give limited amounds of gases, and once degassed you have the bonus of burning the remaing charcoal. This method keeps the chimney almost free of soot, prevents grey ashes to swirl and leave through the chimney as fine and hazardous dust, and also is much more economical. It’s the preferred method both in The Alps and Scandinavia, and gaining ground elsewhere.