The hot pellets will ignite the new pellets.
Can you convert a wood stove to pellet.
Watch as steve maxwell tours a device for burning wood heating pellets in an ordinary woodstove or fireplace.
I found 2 solutions.
If you have a pellet basket for your wood stove you can use it to burn pellets in the stove.
Also the pellet stove should be removed not converted they are not made for wood.
Pellet stoves have different chimney requirements.
Simply place the basket in your wood stove fill it with wood pellets light the pellets with gel firestarter.
I got a cheap price on wood pellets so i needed a way to burn them in my barrel wood stove i built from a kit.
Reasons you may want to install a wood pellet stove in your existing gas fireplace for a number of reasons.
You could get a wood stove but you are starting from scratch.
Burning pellets used to require a pellet stove but new hampshire based energex has created an add on product called prometheus that allows homeowners to convert any fireplace or wood burning stove to pellets.
Add more pellets when needed.
In some cases you can install a wood pellet stove directly into your gas fireplace to take advantage of these benefits.
How to burn pellet fuel in a wood stove.
There are differences though between wood pellets and traditional wood logs.
Scoop the hot pellets to one side with a metal scoop add new pellets next to the hot pellets.
The prometheus is a steel basket with its sides and bottom covered by thousands of honeycomb shaped airholes.