There are differences though between wood pellets and traditional wood logs.
Can you convert a wood stove to pellet.
Also the pellet stove should be removed not converted they are not made for wood.
I found 2 solutions.
If you have a pellet basket for your wood stove you can use it to burn pellets in the stove.
Scoop the hot pellets to one side with a metal scoop add new pellets next to the hot pellets.
Pellet stoves have different chimney requirements.
A modern closed pellet fireplace in addition to saving you money won t make you miss out on the charm that only a wood fire can provide.
Reasons you may want to install a wood pellet stove in your existing gas fireplace for a number of reasons.
The prometheus is a steel basket with its sides and bottom covered by thousands of honeycomb shaped airholes.
Add more pellets when needed.
Simply place the basket in your wood stove fill it with wood pellets light the pellets with gel firestarter.
In some cases you can install a wood pellet stove directly into your gas fireplace to take advantage of these benefits.
The hot pellets will ignite the new pellets.
How to burn pellet fuel in a wood stove.
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.
However just opening your stove and tossing a few wood pellets into it can cause serious damage to the stove.
Watch as steve maxwell tours a device for burning wood heating pellets in an ordinary woodstove or fireplace.