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Re: A Few Alcohol Stove Suggestions I normally wait for the water to boil before using. I have a question. It takes about 35 Kj to bring water from 20C to 100C boiling point but then it takes 225 Kj more to bring it from 100C to vap... |
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Re: Re: re: stove system weight over time Just to highlight James point above. I have yet another chart (last one promised. I like pictures) showing how the weight of the cooking sytem is reduced over the duration of a 7 day trip and the... |
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Re: re: stove system weight over time In my chart I assumed that you couldn't reuse the fuel tab and therefore had to use .5 oz. |
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Re: Yikes....variables!!! Hi Stefan, The definition of Lowland and highland is as defined in Will's article. I am very clumsy with alcohol stoves. But the question is: if you are going on a 7 day hike with no re... |
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Re: Re: Re: Re: More detailed repost - Stove weight including Pot by hike days Just for kicks I added a waste of 25% white gas and 50% for alcohol stove. The Jetboil people will be happy. Low land consumption with waste High land consumption with waste |
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Re: Re: Re: More detailed repost - Stove weight including Pot by hike days Here is a comparison between Low land and Highland . Sames assumption except that the fuel consumption is different AND the fuel container is updated as needed Low Land High Land |
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Re: Re: More detailed repost - Stove weight including Pot by hike days I think we mentioned waste with alcohol not necessarily with respect to recycling unused alcohol but about priming the stove and also about the user not turning out the stove right away and about s... |
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Re: Re: Re: Re: More detailed repost - Stove weight including Pot by hike days It depends if you are speaking of cooking days or hiking days. On my chart it runs flat to day 12 (cooking days) which is equivalent to 13 day hike. I am using Will's fuel consumption. I... |
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Re: Re: More detailed repost - Stove weight including Pot by hike days Hi Roger, Yes excellent point. I reran the number and updated the chart. The break you see in the curve for the canister systems are due to the added canister. For the White gas it is due... |
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Re: Re: Stove weight including Pot by hike days Thank you for your comments and you have a keen intuition when looking at the charts. Your are absolutely right the amount of fuel consumed to boil a pint of water depends on many many variables... |
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