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An interesting thought I found on another forum re heat transfer pots . . . he cut away the fins in places (e.g. if you stove has its pot supports in a tri formation, cut the fins away in the 3 places) so they would fit a cooker that wasn't designed for them, cut down they gave increased efficiency on the non-proprietary stove and very little loss on the one they were designed for . . . wish I'd kept the link.
Opens up the field quite a bit to use finned pots.
@K95 , fair enough that makes a lot of sense
It's an interesting thought. It increases efficiency only if you're running the stove at a higher output than what a non-heat exchanger pot can handle. If you run a stove too hard a lot of that heat can't be "captured" by the pot. A heat exchanger provides more surface area to soak that heat up and put it to use. These modern stoves have such high outputs they require a heat exchanger or they would be horrendously inefficient. Fast boil time has become what people rate a stove on hence why they're all going this way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tentman
So with those upright canister stoves you're talking about they could also slow the stove down if efficiency was the only thing they wanted to increase. It's a big game of compromises like everything else in life.
Great thread @K95
Are you going to cover off wind proof heat exchange pots?
Cheers Cliff
Well written thread learnt quite a bit.
@Cliff Yeah I think I could do that justice, just got a bit going on at the moment :) I'll continue to put some more info in here in the next couple weeks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cliff
So can this Halo Peak gas burner take the upside down canisters?
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try it and see...looks like it has heating coil....
I will try it at home. Going to do some backyard cooking with the kids tomorrow night. Don't have a proper stand but can put something together to do the job.
I'm not sure. I can't find a manual on the net easily. Remember to run it upright for 30secs before trying with it inverted if you do test it. Be aware it might flare up so keep your face away from the burner and maybe put a full pot of water on it to stop it flipping over when you invert the canister.
Cheers, all I found for the Halo Peak expedition stove was that it had a built in anti flare system.
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Originally Posted by 300wsm for life
Check the manual, some have the loop to bring the tank pressure up not for liquid fuel.
Edit, I just read your latest post. The anti flare should make it ok to invert the tank.
Prompted by this excellent thread I ordered a Kovea "Spider", and to my surprise it got delivered! Its excellent on test, light (170 gms) and runs fine inverted.
However the promotional material and the instructions make no mention of "inverted running", the only mention is some small print on the box. I don't know how you'd buy it for inverted running if you didn't have first hand information.
Interesting. Should email em see why it's not advertised as being capable of inverted use. It's been used that way since 2012. Maybe it's a legal thing.
