After thinking about this project for two years, I recently finished modifying a JetBoil PCS pot to be a 550ml pot (I call it the JB550), I also cut the JetBoil stove-mounting ring off.
The weight of the JB 550 pot and new lid is 100.3g the pot grip sleeve is 6.4g.
The weight of the BPL 550 is 53.3 with lid.
I have run a few tests to compare the JB 550 with the BPL 550.
The JB 550 is around 20%-30% more efficient than the BPL 550 depending on burn rate.
With the JB550 the tests used between 4.3g/80ºC and 6.6g/80ºC and averaged about 5g/80ºC.
The BPL550 used between 5.3g/80ºC and 7.5g/80ºC and averaged about 6.3g/80ºC.
At the same burn rate the JB 550 is at least 20% quicker than the BPL 550.
The stove used is one of my MYOG stove specially designed for small pots but I had to do some minor modifications to get it work with the flux ring JB pot.
Conclusions: (1)The flux ringed JB550 pot gives approximately a 25% fuel saving over the BPL 550 pot and using a Coleman Max 170g canister 17 liters of water could be boiled, compared to about 12.5 liters with the BPL550.
(2) For shorter trips the Flux ring JB550 pot would not see any weight reduction advantage but for longer trips or in very cold condition they would be a great advantage.
A full report will with data and more graphs be published soon.
Tony

JB 550 pot alongside the BPL 550 pot

Bottom of JB550 pot

JB550 on stove

Graph of weight loss vs water boiled

