Digital stove thermometers, I like em!

I am loving these, no lag time.
Don't have to go over to the stove to see the stovetop temperature.
One glance ,across the room ,I see the flames the fire, inside pipe temperature and stove top temperature, I know exactly what the stove is doing.
I can check to see what the high temp was overnight .
I can tell exactly when to dial down the air.
If I screw up again, I have 2 high temperature alarms set, 1000 for the pipe, 725 for the stove top.
Fer any naysayers , they make it easier , provide safety , and they are just cool

Owners how you like em ??

Cruising along with 4 medium splits
Pipe on the left ,Stove top right

 

Where to find?

 

http://www.auberins.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=292

 

Thanks! I marked the site...

 

Mmm thermocouples..

 

Yeah swags had an incident a couple of weeks ago and ordered one for his flu
You must have missed the other thread High Temperature Alarm?

 

The wires don't look that great but maybe I will paint part of them black by the stove and part brown by the hearth, but maybe not they don't really bother me that much

 

Mine has four thermocouples: firebox (before the combustor), combustor, stove top and stove pipe temp (internal).


I believe it takes somewhere around 825F flue temps. to set creosote on fire so mine alarms at 700F and has never actually gotten to that temp. My max. running temp. is 650F on startup and mid- 300F's to mid 400F's when running.

You can also record the data and see what the stove did overnight or during the day when it is running and no one is there. This is a cold day burn for me (back in Feb.):


Brian

 

Yeah that's the bad mofo set up there.
You put that together yourself right?

 

BDF, what model is that?

 

Are these numbers inside flu temps ?

 

Well, kind of I guess. The data recorder is a commercial unit with no brand name from some factory in China, purchased through Ebay. I added the power supply instead of using it with the AA batteries it comes with (got tired of having the batteries go dead and having to reset all the data, time, date). The thermocouples came from different places and are different types and styles; the two in the smoke pipe and measuring the cat. temps. are stainless steel probe types (Easy Boys!), while the other two are bare 'bead' type thermocouples. Unfortunately, I have not yet gotten one to stand up to the firebox temps. yet- been through 3 or 4 small ones and all have had the insulation burn off them until they short against the stove and fail.

Sort of like a nanny cam for the woodstove

Brian

 

Yes. I have a probe mounted inside the smoke pipe just before it exits into the chimney thimble. The Ideal Steel has an "S" shaped exhaust path whether the bypass is open or not; that takes a LOT of heat out of the exhaust gasses. My last stoves would reach 1,000F in a matter of minutes after starting a fire; the I.S. is hard- pressed to get to 700F, and in normal running never gets to 500F.

Brian

 

Ok that makes sense, cat stove , totally different.
You don't have Wi-Fi on that puppy ?

 

Not yet.... but I am working on it.

Brian