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发表于 2011-4-8 20:48:12
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Review from other forum:
Muka Stove, first impressions.
Recently, I received a Soto Muka stove, courtesy of AJ from this forum, for the purposes of a review. I took it out last night for a first run. I thought I'd give some initial impressions:
POSITIVE
-The stove's burner is quite compact, and the fuel line is extremely flexible. The burner and line together collapse down to a very small package compared to most stoves.
-The build quality is good. There are some smart ideas like covers for both sides of the fuel connector (i.e. both on the pump and on the end of the fuel line).
-I didn't do any time trials, but the flame is quite impressive. As a consequence, the stove does appear to consume more fuel than is typical.
-The "no priming required" claims are valid and true.
-The "air" setting on the pump works well and is similar to flipping the bottle on other stoves such as an Omnifuel or Nova.
-The windshield is quite flexible and although shorter than most seems adequate for the job given the low profile of the Muka's burner.
NEGATIVE
-The pump takes an awful lot of strokes to pressurize the bottle when the fuel is low. I counted some 150 strokes before the indicator popped out to the "ready" point.
-As with most liquid fuel stoves with the control at the pump only, the stove has trouble doing any real simmering. The flame control ranges from absolute inferno down to maybe medium but doesn't come anywhere close to what could reasonably be called a simmer. On low flame, the stove went out multiple times.
-On high, an awful lot of heat is wasted up around the sides of the pot.
-Since an indicator is used to determine adequate pressure (instead of a number of pump strokes), one needs to be able to see the indicator. In low light conditions, this might be troublesome. However, with practice one could operate the stove by feel. This is a fairly minor issue.
I'm still forming an overall impression, but I am a little disappointed by the lack of simmering and a little distressed by how many pump strokes are required when the fuel level is low.
On the plus side, this could be a real snow melting monster with it's truly impressive flame.
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