Madison stove owners

I just looked through the 30-NC manual and no mention of burn time. Here is something strange in my Madison manual, they list the firebox capacity in lbs; 23 lbs to be exact. I find that a bit strange.

 

The Madison has a square metal thingy that sits in the fire box (can be seen in the second photo I posted), there is a small hole in the square metal thingy that goes under the stove. I am guessing it is an air inlet into the firebox. I did not see that on the 30-NC when I was looking at the 30 manual. Therefore, I am guessing this is something new in the Madison.

 

The 30 has 2 inlet holes for the "doghouse" air that are on the bottom of the stove behind the 2 front legs.
Looks like that "feature" has been included on the Madison as well.
The 30 firebox is 20x20x12, so just over 2.75 cu ft......of usable space.

 

So that is with the firebrick in place?

 

Yep

 

I'm really, really surprised that you need more burn time from your 13NC in MS rebelduckman. Your Winter is essentially my early shoulder season.....................and I can get by on just a couple loads a day just to take the chill out of the house.

Must be the thinner blood............south of the Mason/Dixon line!!!!!

 

The older I get the colder I get. It's mainly the other half though. If it's in the 40's there's got to be a fire burning. I'm also 100% wood and in an old drafty house so I don't hold the heat very well

 

That is a sweet looking stove, something I might have to look at in the future.

 

I agree with that.

 

It was in the 60's Christmas morning and I was burning like it was a blizzard out lol

 

It would cook me out. This Madison may too but I got Windows

 

I wish my Madison was installed, I am building the hearth pad. It would be so nice to have a kitchen in the winter at 24C or a bit warmer.

 

That's about 75* F, right? Gotta remember, most of us woodchucks ain't real used to the metric measurin...

 

I think all the manufacturers over estimate realistic every day use burn times. If they say 24 hrs figure on 12 and you'll likely be happy. I am sure they are telling the truth but it must be one huge load in the fire box of perfectly seasoned hard maple and choked right down as far as possible. Burn times increase as the fire box volume increases is a safe rule of thumb. I am not anal about achieving a world record burn times but expect a clean burning stove with 80% (more or less) heat recovery in a nice looking package. Our old EPA stove was a Napoleon 1400 and to make it work for us we had to load it right up and then it burned too hot for my liking. We should have got the 1900 instead. Now with a 4.5 cu ft fire box we load half full and it goes 8 hours on cruise with steady heat and mid range STT. I like that ... a lot! Go big or go home!

 

Which is why I decided on the Madison 02 over the Madison 01. The bigger stove takes up a bit more room than if I went with a small stove; needed a bigger hearth pad; I actually looked for stoves with a side door because the hearth would not have to project as far into the room; however, that meant more expensive cast-iron stoves that I could not afford. I had people telling me that you have to load a small stove several times and they would not go through the night and you had to do cold starts in the morning. I hope I made the right choice.

 

IMO you made a good choice. When unsure bigger is a safe bet. Eventually we all reach a sort of comfortable balance with how much to load in on a given night. Today's wood stoves are amazingly good and you will be as warm as you want to be so long as you are ok with 8 hours sleep. lol