Production Woodstock IS

600* on the frt. Don't be too worried I see this or close to it every night.
This is the highest the stove top has ever gotten.
These were taken moments apart. You still have quite a bit of potential left in her. WS has told me to use the top of the stove as the indicator not the frt both with the beta and production stove.

It is a little unnerving seeing that high a temp but it's OK to be there. If it bothers too much to see it move the thermometer easy fix

 

Thank Hollywood.
I have two thermometers, one on the outside of the stack and the other one goes between the stove top and the front. I like to see the cat temps as well.... Maybe I should just buy one more, or put in the actual probes and use a data logger.....

 

I am running double wall pipe so I can't run my extra magnetic one there. Talking with BDF about his thermocouple setup.

 

Did all the posters go on vacation?

 

I'm here..whats up Colorado?

 

I'm here! Staying nice and warm!

 

How about that cat probe. .....

 

Oh, I see you have a new IS, nice of you to join in. How do yiu like it?

 

Cat probe??

 

The one that I want Haha. I called Woodstock. They still don't have one for it. I would love to have one for the shoulder season.

 

I'd guess on a list of 1-100 of IS issues that WS has created that the CP is maybe like 99
IMO, I don't see them offering one, most likey will be subbed out to a vendor

 

My thoughts too. Maybe we should make a list of those interested and hand that over to Condar. Tell them we will advertise it for them if it works.

 

I was borderline thinking of a thermocouple and a digital display just for the cat. BDF was gonna work out the
numbers for me but it just too costly for what it was doing. I'll stick to the flue and stovetop for now, it's working.
If you'd like to group together some interested IS folks I'll jump on.

 

And that is when a digital, accurate and fast thermocouple set-up is great- when the stove is running low & slow. Using a standard cat probe just will not let you know what is going on and will result I think in the belief that the cat. has 'stalled' when in fact it is working perfectly well. This is the only stove I have seen in my life that can be kept running clean and NOT smolder and yet so slow that it will not overheat the house when it is 50F outside. After decades of making small fires, having it be too hot and then too cold all in one day, and trying in vain to throttle other stoves, this one will run so cool you can touch the smokepipe or stove top with a bare hand for a 'three- count' and yet produce a perfectly clear exhaust. Just my opinion but that is where this stove truly shines but it takes thermocouples to know that it is working in my experience.

Now that I have had this stove in the fall shoulder season, as well as the heart of our winter, I am very much looking forward to loading this thing as full as full can be and seeing about getting long, slow burn times when it is in the 40'sF at night and low 60'sF by day. I am kinda' expecting 2 days of burn time on a stove full of hardwood splits, especially when those splits do not start out at 8 F degrees from being outside before being loaded.

Brian

 

I'm joining the thrmocouple uprising. Everyone has those "stock" probe gauges. I like custom and different, and i know all of you do too. Just look at the pieces of art sitting in the corner doing outstanding things saving us all money. Put some of it back into the stove setup and watch everyone we know jaws drop even more to here and see what this thing can do.

• They will be sayin you used how little wood.
• You have that much info and controll over it

 

During this cold snap, how are you all running hot?
I can't afford to let her coal down slowly, so I have been keeping up putting logs in.
Not yet certain if I should run open when at home and can monitor temps to avoid overfire.
Or, are you loading and turning it down to notch 7,8,9 ?

If I let the coals burn down a good amount, I can throw a log or two on and run wide open. If I load her up when there are a lot of coals, I can not run 100%. Maybe 50-40%. But is it just as hot burning if I turn it down to 33% or a little lower?

I am burning primarily dead ash under 20%.

 

With flames I never open the air more than a 1/3. There's no need to.

 

For the overnight burn in sub- zero (F) temps.: I burn the coals down until they are nearly gone. Then load the stove as full as possible, N/S, with the andirons out of the stove. Get the new splits fully involved, then close the bypass and set the draft at 1/4 + 1 or 2 hash marks. So that is either 7 or 8 hash marks open on the draft.

Brian

 

Just thought I would give an update on this mod: In a really left- handed sort of way, it proved to work quite well by actually failing. Lately I noticed the flue temp. has climbed a bit and the stove top temps. have dropped a bit. More importantly, the stove top is now running right around or just under the flue temps; after my mod. mentioned above, the stove top was usually around 50F above the flue temps. I have also been running the stove a bit warmer with the draft further open. So I took a look in there (Easy Boys!) and sure enough, my carefully crafted modification had fallen out So I took the radiator out, put the steel slat back in and secured it with a couple of pieces of stainless steel wire this time. Now a couple of days later, the stove is again running as it did after the original modification: the stove top is between 30F and 60F higher than the flue gas temperature. In real life, the stove produces as much heat with the draft closed a couple of hash marks and the same 'stove full' of wood lasts somewhat longer.

Brian

 

I pull all the coals up to the door with full air. I can get the stove to sit at 600 on the front. I might re-pull things forward a few more times. If I cant keep the front temperature above 500, I am reloading. I have subpar wood so the hot coal bed is key for the stove to take off. It also keeps the stove hot. I would assume if I did this 5 straight days I would have a build up of coals. Every day or so I will burn the coals off longer. Maybe down to 350-400.

Also, when pulling the coals forward, I use the ash pan cover to create a wall to pile the coals against while the door is open. I then tip it inwards so that the coals dont fall and close the door. I can usually have coals piled ~4" above the bottom of the glass. This creates some serious heat. I repeat this process until I cant keep temperatures up. I can get the front temperature to sit at 6-650 for a while.