Behind the Howl Campfire Technology

Things that make HOWL Campfires unlike any other fire pits on the planet.

01.
IT STEAMS FREEZING WATER OFF YOUR CLOTHES IN 3 MINS

The HOWL Campfire shoots out Infrared rays so intense, they'll boil water right out of your river-soaked Carhartts.

No other propane fire can do that.

02.
IT BURNS TWICE AS HOT AS OTHER PROPANE FIRES

Flames-only fire pits typically burn at 550-700ºF.

Howl's BarCoal tubes run twice as hot, a blistering 1,200+ ºF. 

The engineering is complex, but the conclusion is simple: if you want to be warm, get a hotter fire.

03.
IT CRANKS OUT MORE HEAT WITH LESS FUEL

HOWL’s BarCoal Technology doesn’t turn your propane into hot air...Instead, it converts that fuel into rays of heat – like you get from glowing wood coals, and the sun. These heat rays cut through wind, rain, and snow to warm you to your core.

The EchoHeat Reflector Shields focus the rays on your body. As you absorb more and more rays, you'll get so hot you have to turn and toast your other side.

With all that heat output, you'd expect the BarCoals to us a lot of fuel. Not so. At just 31,000 BTUs per hour, you and your crew can rotisserie yourselves for 13 hours on a single tank.

04.
IT WORKS IN 120 MPH WINDS

For the first time in history, humans can have a hot campfire in the gnarliest conditions imaginable. The secret is not what you'd expect. It's all about when you add air to the fuel.

Fuels like wood and propane need oxygen to burn. But traditional propane fire pits add the oxygen way too late. First, they ignite the propane. Second, they rely on the surrounding air to passively feed the flames. This secondary air is often compromised by wind, altitude, and weather, and whenever it is, the flames starve.

HOWL's revolutionary BarCoal Technology doesn’t rely on secondary air. Instead, it actively draws in all the air it needs prior to ignition. This called primary air.

The HOWL is the world's first campfire to use a 100% Primary Air Combustion System. This patented technology makes the HOWL impervious to weather, wind, and altitude.

05.
IT MAKES LPG BURN MUCH HOTTER THAN NORMAL

The propane inside the BarCoal Tubes burns at roughly 3,560 ºF – a temperature that propane typically only reaches when mixed with bottled, purified oxygen. For example, welders use oxygen that's 99.2% pure.

But the HOWL uses regular atmospheric air – just 20.9% oxygen – to make stainless steel glow piping hot.

Such an intense burn requires slightly more than 16 molecules of air for every 1 molecule of propane. If the ratio is off even by a fraction, either too rich or too lean, the temperature will fall.

The HOWL holds its air-to-fuel ratio steady no matter the wind, weather, altitude, impacts, vibration, road grit, and whatever else your adventures might bring.

How? It took our team of engineers from MIT and Cornell three years. We ran complex fluid dynamics equations, built dozens of prototype iterations, and performed hundreds of tests in the lab and in the field.

The result speaks for itself.

For the first time ever, you can have a truly hot campfire in any condition on earth.

06.
IT'S MOLTEN HOT, BUT THE GROUND BENEATH STAYS COOL

The BarCoal tubes rip at 1200+ ºF and broil everything in their path. But the ground below – just 7 inches away – stays perfectly cool.

Having complete control over the heat makes the HOWL safer for forests.

It also lets you light bonfires in places you always wished you could – like your back deck, blacktop parking areas, the roof of your rig, and even the bow of your fishing boat.

To keep the heat exactly where you want it (and nowhere you don’t), the HOWL uses metallurgy. Each part is made from a carefully selected alloy.

Some metals reflect heat out toward your body, while others work as strategic heat sinks. Some even conduct the heat away from areas you might need to touch, like the legs and the handle.