[Stoves] A bright idea - Wood Gas Lantern Video

Thomas Reed tombreed at comcast.net
Fri Aug 25 08:14:59 CDT 2006


Dear Dean and All:

I believe Agua Das has modified our Woodgas stove to build a mantle 
lamp.  The Wellsbach Mantle light is to the kerosene lamp as the 
electric light is to a pitch torch.  I hope others may wish to try 
this.  I'll try to get more details.

Yours truly,

TOM REED  BEF

Alex and Christine English wrote:
> Dean,
> The flame is in a glass enclosure. I don't really see this as a practical idea, I am more 
> interested in it as a window on the flame dynamics. I would like to experiment with 
> flamability limits (excess air) of "wood gas" (variable quality, moisture ect.) and flame 
> holding methods. Its nice to have a good view of whats going on when changes are 
> made.
>
> Some day I would like to put it under your emissions hood and get some pariculate 
> numbers.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Alex
>
>   
>> Dear Alex,
>>
>> I also built a wood burning lantern which should be somewhere on the Stoves
>> site. Does your lantern fill a glass enclosure with flame? It sounds really
>> great and it keeps going for so long! Congratulations. I think that lanterns
>> are very useful and would help reduce IAP, especially if they are attached
>> to a chimney.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Dean
>>
>>     
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