Pellet stoves

[RCW]

hey could some of you guys give us some links to a couple of good/proven stoves?

like that harmon or kozi whats ever?

sdk - looks like you found Harman, but here's their link. I have the XXV, which they still make.

http://www.harmanstoves.com/

At the time, my research said Harman and Quadrafire were the 2 best. Now Quadrafire owns Harman.

When I bought the Harman years ago, fuel oil was ~$4/ gallon. I burned about 12 facecord of firewood and ~1,000 gallons of fuel oil per year.

Pellet stove replaced the wood stove. The Harman XXV was far from cheap, but seemed to be the ticket for us with a 6" top vent adapter that hooked right to my thimble/masonry chimney.

While we've made other changes (boiler, windows, doors, etc.), now I burn almost 6 tons of pellets and less than 20 gallons of fuel oil per year. Last year I burned 7.6 gallons of fuel oil totaling $17.83.

Our house is small, but downstairs is a constant 76 degrees, which keeps the upstairs warm enough. Since the boiler in the cellar doesn't run, I have to run a milkhouse heater when it gets near 0 degrees.

 

[Tooljunkie]

After running the new kozi for a few months, its not bad. Downsides- the bay winow style glass is a pain to clean and side panels soot up quick.
The hopper barely holds one bag of pellets. A royal pain in the ass. If it would hold even 60 lbs would be much less of a nuisance.

I am also a little disappointed with heat output. Dial draft to get decent heat and burn pot plugs up with ashes.its not the quality of pellets,i was burning the worst pellets i ever saw and heat output remainsthe same.

Compare it to the harmon, big difference. I repaired it. Thermal switch on exhaust to shut fan and auger off,one on firebox to control circulation fan and a high limit to cut auger off to prevent overheat.
Also used a 30 minute timer to run stove until thermal switches kick in.
No digital control,works flawlessly.