New Hampshire new member

I was considering buying one of the outdoor boiler furnace units and was doing some YouTube searching and came across T2H's videos and am now completely hooked on rocket stoves. What a great forum and composite of fantastically useful information.

My goal now, having lost lots of sleep on working through many of the posts, is to make a rocket stove that heats a water jacket to run a hot water heating system circulating system for my garage and workshop.

hi and welcome to the forum

you will find more info within the sub forums that non members cant see but using as much technology or the rocket stove for the downdraft model instead

as im also considering going this way myself however im going downdraft

I assume by downdraft you are talking about stoves live ppotty has built?

nope downdraft goes through the coals

https://woodstoves.forumotion.co.uk/t698-downdraft-boiler

https://woodstoves.forumotion.co.uk/t348-down-draft-gasification-boiler

https://woodstoves.forumotion.co.uk/t711-lighting-of-the-dual-fire-wood-burners

ppottys and garys systems hit the high heat for water to be heated from there builds so yes you can heat central heating water with there systems which in turn will heat hot water systems

the problem is the top plate it will suffer from high heat and warp and bend the thick plate needed

Very interesting videos but unfortunately they assume an understanding of downdraft designs. I've not researched downdraft so I really don't have an understanding of the difference, but what are the advantages of downdraft designs?

heres something interesting is posted further within the site a few times

http://www.heatkit.com/research/2013/lopez%20decathlon13.htm

also cleaner and much hotter