Using a Solo Stove with wood pellets
This week I am experimenting with using wood pellet’s in a Solo Stove lite.
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This was not a promotional video. I purchased this with my own money.
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good test! thanks.
You should check videos of people who have done it before. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VALnkpNyG0U
Good vid
Why is it smoking?
Love the sunshine ☀️ in your video.. it’s freezing here in the Netherlands.
Never strike a match toward your self..
The smaller they are from solo stove the harder they ripp you off. Go to AlieExpress get one for 1/4 of the price. Crazy how hard they rip you off. Even after they collected so much money in kickstarter.
Its a bizznes so yeah.. money 💰 money 💰 money.
Thanks for this video. I love the idea of pellets — easy to buy, easy to store, easy to transport, and very safe. But pellets are very finicky to light and keep burning. Also, you cannot add more pellets unless you let the fire go out completely. I am increasingly investigating bioethanol as a solution. Not as easy to store and definitely more dangerous, but it burns beautifully.
Have you tried using a cheap dollar store sink drain screen to keep the pellets from falling through? I have seen others use it on larger solo stoves. Not sure if it will fit the smaller ones. You may have to cut out the screen and trim it to fit smaller ones.
I always get a smokelesss beautiful flame with a full on secondary burn in my Bushbuddy and my Silverfire Scout. I also use woo pellets in my SoloStove Ranger with the same smokeless beautiful flame.
Thanks for running this experiment. I have made a few tin can stoves and thought I'd try wood pellets, because they are easy to store, but it looks like I should not increase my pellet supply before doing some tests.
Wood pellets can burn all the way to ash in a Solo stove, you just need to make one modification: Add another grate at the bottom, at an angle to the main grate so the pellets don't fall to the bottom. Get some sturdy steel mesh, cut a circle that will fit inside the stove, shove it down there, then add your pellets and ignite with an accelerant. You need that air gap at the bottom so that the air can penetrate the pile of pellets or at the very least keep the bottom of the pile lit so the primary nichrome grate is super hot. It's a bit of a pain, but it is possible.
I've seen another video that uses a pellet cage as a central chimney, again, to draw as much air up the pile as possible.
Good experiment. I have a wood pellet stove to heat my basement so I have bags of pellets. You saved me an experiment. However, I’d like to see if I can make the solo stove. Thanks for letting us know your results here.
I think you did really well getting a half hour burn out of the wood pellets. Normally you have to constantly feed the fire in the solo stove lite and can't go more than two or three minutes without adding more twigs to keep them flame going. Also the nichrome grid squares are so large they don't hold the pellets to allow hot air to come through from underneath the pellets so you might have unburned pellets at the bottom of the pile smothered by pellets and ashes above. It might help to put in a grid with smaller grid squares, but I think you'd be challenged to beat the half hour burn. Great video! 👍
Great video! A lot of good information for those of us who have never tried wood pellets.
Thank you
Thanks for the video. It seems like the pellets are clogging the air vents. I have see other videos where a grate with smaller holes is placed over the built in grate helps keep the air moving better and allows for gasification.
It's a breath of fresh air to have someone talking at a normal rate about camp stoves. Most others are really halting in their speech all the time and I appreciate their effort but it gets aggravating after a while.
Great video learned alot of really good tips! thank you
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Good review…thanks!
Good stuff! Just FYI the Bushbuddy is the exact same stove as that but only weights 6.4 oz.
Neat stove looks like fun, but the last thing I want to do after a long day is mess with a fire. I went with an alcohol stove that doubles as a wood stove if I run out of fuel. Great review👍
Appreciate you taking the time to make this video. I love experimenting with different fuel. I don't have the Solo stove, I swear by my Emberlit stove; but I'd add one of these to my many stoves. Thanks again.