Hudson River Stove Works West Point Freestanding Pellet Stove
The simple unadorned design of the housing of the Hudson River Stove Works West Point Freestanding Pellet Stove belies its massive capabilities. Starting from the hopper, it has a capacity of 140 pounds of wood pellets, arguably one of the largest, if not the largest, hoppers around. Moving on to its heat output, it registers a whooping 70,000 BTUs per hour at maximum heating. Its minimum, on the other hand, is 12,000 BTUs per hour.
Given the huge hopper capacity, the pellet stove can continually provide heat to your home for 130 straight hours if heating is set at the minimum 12,000 BTUs per hour. That’s almost five and a half days before you need to refill your stove’s hopper. However, if you choose maximum heating, the burn rate is increased to 6.5 pounds per hour, reducing the time when you need to refill the hopper to 21 hours.
A state-of-the-art digital control board regulates the functions of the Hudson River Stove Works West Point Freestanding Pellet Stove. By simply pressing control buttons, the auger is activated to feed pellets into the burn pot, the automatic igniter comes alive and the blowers start spinning.
A quiet blower draws cold air into the burn chamber to facilitate combustion while a convection blower transfers heated air from the burn chamber into the room at an efficiency level of 85.5%, far above the level required by the government to qualify buyers for tax credits. These are temperature controlled so that they will provide the level of heat that has been pre-set.
An optional remote thermostat can be installed to regulate the heat output of the pellet stove. This adjusts auger speed, speeding up or slowing down, in response to changing temperature levels.