Dansons Corn Stoves

Dansons Corn Stoves are produced by Dansons Group, a Canadian company located near Edmonton. The company was started by two brothers and named in dedication to their father (whose name was Dan). Dansons Group was established with the idea of utilizing waste-wood products and in a little than 6 years grew from a small family business with the staff of only 3, to a prosperous corporation that's selling its products all around the world and the staff of over 120. Currently, Dansons Group is specializing in horse and animal bedding, pellet fuel appliances, and just recently they moved into the grease and lubricant market as well.

There're two lines of pellet stove products and they both have Dansons corn stoves in their range: "Glow Boy" and "Pelpro". The Pelpro line has only one model, whereas Glow Boy has a corn-burning heater similar to the one of Pelpro and also free-standing corn burning stove. Characteristics of all Dansons Corn stoves are quite similar: both heater models have 120-lb hoppers and roughly of the same size. The burning time of Dansons corn stoves can vary from 22 to up to 60 hours depending on the settings and temperature adjustments, and they can produce heat output between 8,000 to 50,000 BTUs/hour. Keep in mind that the heat output for all stoves that use bio-mass fuel depends very much on the quality of the fuel.

Beside of the particular features listed above, Dansons corn stoves share the following benefits as other corn stoves: first of all, they're very economic – running a corn stove can be up to 80% cheaper than running a pellet stove or a wood stove. Corn stoves are also very efficient (up to 98% of heat output) and environment friendly – they do not produce any carbon dioxide while burning, neither any other particulate matter. And they are much safer than any other type of stove – there is no registered home fires caused by corn stoves so far.

A few disadvantages that you might want to know about before purchasing any corn stove and Dansons corn stoves in particular include their complexity and dependency on electricity. Advancing corn from hoppers to burners, stirring it for burning, and distributing hot air means quite sophisticated mechanics are involved, which means more maintenance and potentially more repair works. All this processes are electric-driven and any power output would shut your corn stove down, unlike say some very basic wood stove that has only a firebox and a flew.

Considering all pros and cons, corn stoves are still one of the popular choices at the area where corn-fuel or other bio-mass fuel is available. And if you're after a cost-effective, reliable, and environment-friendly heating source for your home, Dansons corn stoves will definitely live up to your expectations.

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