Has anyone got a silicon carbide Ecco (Eco) stove?

headinthecloud

Hello!
We're just researching the Ecco stove/woodburner and would love to hear from anyone who's actually got one-
they sound amazing-
they work in a different way to traditional steel/cast iron stove because they're made from silicon carbide which holds and emits the heat at a lower level but for much longer and enables the heat generated to travel through the entire house somehow! no need for rads - which IS pretty rad!
Also consumes less than half the quantity of timber as a gasification boiler (vigas) to fulfill same spec.
We're desperate to know if anyone has experience of this burner to back these amazing claims up!

aelitaman

First off they work in exactly the same way as steel or cast iron stove.

You light fire, stove casing heats up, heat is emitted to warm the room. If the eccostove does not do this then I will eat my hat.

So on to the claim that it release heat more slowly to warm the whole house which a tradiational stove can not because it emits heat quickly.

First problem here is if it emits the heat slowly then will it even heat the room that it is installed in let alone the whole house? The web sites say that the eccostove gets to a temp of 200c whereas a traditional stove is 400c to 500c. It may be true that a traditional stove can get to 400c to 500c but most of the manuals say run them between 200c and 300cm, which as you guessed it is exactly the same as the eccostove.

I could go on but I think you get the drift, this is just marketing BS.

Ectophile

My conventional steel stove is remarkably good at heating the whole house, even though it's only a small 5KW one.

The highest temperature I've measured on the outside of the stove was about 230C.