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I purchased a Harman pellet stove this winter and I love it. The money that I have saved this winter by not heating with oil more than makes up for the small amount of cleaning maintenance of the pellet stove. Carrying this a bit further, I am surprised that apparently no one makes specifically, a domestic hot water heater. Yes, there are hot water boilers for heating your home with domestic hot water capability but no stand-alone domestic water heaters. It would seem to me that a water heater of this type used in conjunction with a Boilermate indirect-fired heater tank would be very practical and could be used all year. The aquastat in the Boilermate could be used to turn on/off the auto-ignition of a Pellet water heater therefore only burning pellets when the water temperature drops below the preset temp setting in the Boilermate and shutting off when a preset high temp is reached. I offered this idea to Harman but apparently they are not interested as they never replied to my email. I sure I would buy such a heater if a quality unit was available. Anyone else have any thoughts on this, pro or con.

Thanks

 PS.....this is my first post so hopefully I did it properly

John

 One thing that may be a problem is the high humidity in the summer. The self life of pellets is not very long in the summer. I know some(all?) of the US pellet plants don't start making their annual supply of pellets until Sept & quit for the year in Apr for this reason.

If you have a few extra bags, you may be able to test this out during the up coming summer where you live. I'd be interested in the results. And any ideas for fixing this.

Welcome to the forum.

Martin 

Thanks Martin and you bring up a good point. Assuming the pellets are not exposed to water, how much humidy is a problem with pellet storage? I keep my basement at 50% all summer, which is supposed to be the healthiest level for humans.....would that be too high for pellet storage? I've seen many stores keep there pellets outside, on the pallet wrapped in the original plastic, all winter long. Anyone have info or personal experience with pellets left over from the heating season and carried them over into the next heating season? Interesting stuff.