Production Woodstock IS

Wow, it has taken a long time but I think this thread has officially gone off topic. Welcome Cannon and congrats Hollywood!

 

Effectively keeping us up to make sure the fire doesn't go out. Oh wait don't need to do that with the IS no do we.

 

I'll bring it back. Loaded for the over night burn.

 

I found a pair of these come in very handy when loading the up the back of the stove over coals. Protection almost to your pits.

 

I cannot believe you can load for the overnight burn at 8:00 PM. In VT no less! I load at 9:30 and that is a bit too early. Unless you have another source(s) of heat?

Brian

 

No other source used. I don't even have my t-stats turned on for just in case. Well insulated and large windows southerly facing the length of the house helps alot. The IS is the workhorse. Most days I will still have close to 250* top temp at noon the next day.

 

Congratulations Hollywood . A nice new addition to the family, good for you and your wife.

 

I think you may have some success using the SS plate to help the steel radiator from deteriorating so quickly. I know from what BDF is explaining that the heat absorption and transfer of heat will be different than what the steel radiator would absorb alone but with the SS plate really reduce the numbers that much?

I also like BDF's idea on forcing the flue gases forward by blocking off the rear of the radiator. I think that idea has some potential too.

 

Hollywood!!!!! Congrats. More potential splitters and stackers. ( I figure I won't get hydraulics till my 9 and 6 year old children are out of the house)

 

Gonna be purchasing a timberwolf splitter with this yrs tax return. Speaking of taxes, are there any rebates for high efficiency stoves this year?

 

I believe they were re-instated retroactively. IRS form 5695 line 22. I believe it is $300 credit

 

Found the thread on the rebates:

http://firewoodhoardersclub.com/forums/threads/tax-rebate-on-new-epa-stoves.9366/unread

 

Yes, but if I understand the convoluted rules, if you used the credits in previous years of this series, then you may not be eligible for the credit. For example, we used $800 (insulation and energy doors) of the then $1500 limit in 2010 and now the limit is back down to $500. So, I am not eligible because I used up $800 of what is now reduced (again) to a $500 limit. Thoughts, anyone?

 

That is how I understand it, Gark. We put on a new roof liner on the back of the house with new insulation underneath, a new water heater, and the new stove all this year. I am wondering how much I might get credit for.

 

Temp reading 2:00pm the next day. Good amount of burn time you think?

 

Are you guys all packing this thing full overnight? I put 3-4 medium splits in overnight on notch 5 and it burns all night no problem.

 

I stuff as much as I can get in there. Set to 2-3 lines under 1/4 on 10*+ nights and 1/4 or +1 for the cold nights.

 

I fill it full with 6-12 splits.
20-30 F: notch 1 to 1/4
teens: around a 1/4
0-10 F: 1/4 to 1/4 + 1 or 2 notches

 

Yep full- like a squirrel packs an air cleaner in a car I load the stove at 9:30 and usually have the fuel charred and ready for overnight by 10:00. Set the draft at 2 or 3 notches when it is above 35F or so and get an outstanding overnight burn with plenty of fire left at 7:30 AM. Set the draft one notch below 1/4 (4th notch) when the temps. drop into the 20's or high teens F. Stove is full of coals in the AM but the house temp. falls a few degrees, stove top is probably around 300 F. When getting near zero, set the draft at one or two notches above 1/4 draft; a fair amount of coals in the morning but stove top is below 300F and the house has lost a few more degrees of temp. Now, I run my house 'underwear warm' which is 73 to 75F in the hallway in the center of the house so it is probably warmer than most people I am guessing. And the worst the temp. has ever dropped is to 67F in the morning with an overnight temp. of 0F and it was still not uncomfortable in here. This stove heats considerably differently than any other stove I have ever used and seems to be based much more in radiating heat to objects instead of convecting heat to the air. The walls and objects in the house are much, much warmer in the morning than they were in the past and the house 'feels' warmer even though the thermostat temps. are usually a degree or three less.

Edited to add: this is the temperature log for last night until this morning.

The reload is easy to see because that is when the firebox and flue temperature spike at around 9:30 PM or so (2100 hours on this graph- it is 24 hour format). The actual woodburning phase can be seen by the combustor temperature, which stays at 1,000F or above until approx. 2:45; the cat. temp. dropoff indicates the wood is basically consumed as well as most of the gasses in the wood. Note also that both the stove top as well as flue temps. decline at this point but the firebox does not drop by as much; this indicates a lot of infrared output from the coals keeping the firebox hot but the stove's overall heat output falls off as seen by the stove top temps. dropping. At around 7:05 AM or so, I opened the draft and partially reloaded the stove at 7:18 or so, note the firebox temp drop off drastically but then basically recover while the combustor temp. rises pretty sharply; this is the combustor 'feeding' on the new fuel (wood gas from the fresh wood).

Brian

 

That is good information, BDF.