Esbit vs. alcohol with Caldera systems

[Thomas Burns]

Trail Designs also makes a short Caldera Cone. I wonder if that might help.

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[Tom Caldwell]

I cut my cone down (1" off bottom for my Snow Peak 700) and used it with the Zelph's Starlyte. I don't know that the cone system is any more efficient than the stove by itself, but the cone weighs 1 1/4 oz, which is less than the crinkly windscreen I had. It's an easy to use system, no priming, no fuel spillage, no wobbling, no pot spillage, etc…

[Mark Verber]

> Trail Designs also makes a short Caldera Cone. I wonder if that might help.

I should have said I was using the short cone with the ion… so a short cone won't help :-) I wasn't expecting the ion to be more efficient that the trail designs stove since they refined their design to operate within the caldera cone. It was a random experiment.

–Mark

[Franco Darioli]

Mark
I experimented some time ago with the Ion inside the cone. I put the Ion on top of ( can't remember what…) to get the right distance between it and the pot ( got that by measuring the distance between it and the supplied pot stand, about 1"). As with all the other stoves I tried it did not work as well as the one from Trail Design..
Franco

[Tony Beasley]

Hi Mark and franco,

I have had some success with my small flame Volcano stove under the 550 Caldera cone, it was more efficient than the stove from TD but I had to pack the stove up a fair bit to shorten the flame hight, the other stoves that I tried with the CC where not as good as the one supplied.

Tony

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