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Originally Posted by Christ
Someone above mentioned pre-heating, and that's not a bad idea at all. You could use part of the heat from the exhaust vent to pre-heat the oil, which will make it quicker to combust and cleaner burning. To that end, you may even be able to drip the fuel slowly onto a plate or screen directly, and allow the flames to vaporize and burn it.
You'll need to adjust your mass intake accordingly, if it's automatically controlled.
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Oil will be rather preheated as it will sit next to the ducting that supplies the warm air to the house and sitting on the top of the insulated stove.
The design of my paticular stove has a floating burn pot in the center of an air filled space the heat exchangers & exhaust run around the burn pot in tandem. The stove has settings for draft fan hi, med, or off depending on corn, corn mix/soybeans or pure pellets. With oil I would assume draft fan would need to be set to med or hi depending on the rate of flow, the oil drip tube will go down between the heat exchanger tubing which will heat the oil to be dripped into the pot, contact with the "blast" furnace metal into the burn pot will also transfer a lot of heat.