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How hot can you get your stove?

Discussion in 'Pellet Stoves, Pellet Fireplaces, Pellet Furnaces' started by IHATEPROPANE, Feb 9, 2014.

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  1. IHATEPROPANE

    IHATEPROPANE

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    After reading a post in another thread I thought it would be interesting to see how hot we could get our air temps.

    For comparison, and to be as consistent as possible I was thinking we state the cfm of the blower, lbs/hr on high, let it run on high for 1 hour before taking readings, and taking a left, middle, and center reading by either thermocouple or IR. And maybe pellet type. Any other suggestions? I will try to get my results within couple of days.
     
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  2. jdonna

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    Spear Fish South Dakota Pellets.

    Feed 4 out of 5 4 lbs an hour.

    IR left 430 center 610 Right 450.

    No idea on CFM, comparable to the rest I guess.
     
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    No fancy temperature measuring equipment here. All I know is mine runs hot enough to keep the house warm on a cold azz day.

    That being said, I'll be interested to see what the various results are.
     
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    More importantly...How hot can you get your wife??
     
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  5. IHATEPROPANE

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    Nowadays, just above freezing.......
     
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    Excellent, this is good stuff
     
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  7. mepellet

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    Ir is going to give you surface temperature.
     
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    Yup, no way the air temp is 630.
     
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  9. IHATEPROPANE

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    Yes, IR will only give surface temps...but it is for comparison to others that measure with IR so its still good info.
     
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  10. IHATEPROPANE

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    JTakeman says he gets 600 degree air
     
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    yes, JT has a lot of hot air.
     
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    Will have my results tomorrow. Cleaned my Enerzone tonight to have some good exchange heat., ;)
     
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  13. pell it

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    US 5660 cleaned yesterday.
    Cranked on high for an hour this morning burning a Vermont/AWF mix.

    Center - 290 f
    Ends - 275 f

    Measured with this:
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    Ditto on both points
     
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    585 IR
     
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    Ha ha! Your just lucky its not coming out the other end!

    :p
     
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    Sooooo.....I didn't have batteries for my IR so I only used the thermocouple. I only had it ob high for 30 min because I started to see some black smoke coming from my vent.....and got a bit nervous :) In hind site I probably should have opened my damper, it almost closed for normal operation.

    Results:

    Left-377
    Center-371
    Right-353


    Attached is a pic of the wood burner magnet at a little over 350
     

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    green dude.jpg
     
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    :rofl: :lol::thumbs:
     
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    OK...here we go:

    left - 352
    middle - 372 IR gun
    right - 324

    convection blower is a 140 cfm.....currently burning a mix of FSU and AWF's.....

    Wifey started asking what I was doing and started giggling to herself....I told her to shut up...lol

    IMAG0657.jpg
     
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