[Stoves] Testing exhaust gas

Paul S. Anderson psanders at ilstu.edu
Thu Dec 27 12:08:32 CST 2007


Quoting Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <crispinpigott at gmail.com>:
> At a minimum you need a thermometer, a scale, a CO meter that can measure up
> to perhaps 5000 ppm and an O2 measure because from those four numbers you
> can generate a great deal of information of reasonable accuracy.

Details please about available CO meter and O2 meter.

Paul
>
> You want to know stack losses, combustion efficiency, excess air, CO level
> and several temperatures in order to know if the combustion or thermal
> performance are really 'improved'. It take a stern discipline to tell
> yourself that what you hoped was a big improvement is actually making
> overall performance worse.
>

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