What do you see on top @ 10hrs? Just for fun pic. All stove makes/models participation.

28⁰ outside. 66⁰ inside before reloading.

 

Here's my best comparison. All i have is room temp to come close to you cat guys. I have just a black box stove. Outside temps about freezing, a couple hours below and a couple above. About 17 hours ago, cold stove, i started a "primer" fire to get some coals to reload an overnight fire on. About 3 hours later i loaded half hickory and half punky tulip/elm. I'm just getting ready to start a new fire for the day. Outside temps about 40 now so probably won't need much to get me to this evening again.

So to summarize. Room temp was about 70 when i lit the "primer" fire and peaked at about 76+ with the main load. Now 18-19 hours later and room temp is back to about 70 where i started.

 

Doesn’t matter if the box is too small if you use equal or less pieces of wood over the same given time period.

 

After 10 hours full load or about 30lbs of wood I think I’m around 250-300 stove top temp when I’m burning a 12 hour reload schedule. By 12 hours I’m down to 150.

 

Here's last nights burn. Room temp is back to where i started the fire last night, about 10 hours ago. Peak temp in the room was about 76° and outside temp about 30°. Was a mix of hickory and some punky oak. Nowhere near "packed full" yet.

 

With the Master Forge I just got rid of I would see icicles after 10 hours.

 

Ideal Steel with 7 spits of American Elm set at 1/4 mark through the burn last night was 210° after 10 hours and full of good coals. 37° outside right now with wet slushy snow and rain forecasted with bad winds.

 

Running my ideal steel with a full load of Ash I'm around 200 after 10 hours. I need to graph my stove temps but I think on a typical load it's at 500 for a couple hours and around 400 for 5 or so before settling down.

 

I have a convection deck, so the temp on top isn't really relevant.
But it's the same as after 6 hrs and it will be the same after 3 more hours. Flue is 450 F.

This is at 10 hrs. Reload 10 pm, 8 am now Outside temps 19. Inside 68 on the main floor (stove is in the basement).

 

12 hours later after burning mostly white oak, with some elm chunks and an apple short for filler. Not much in the way of heat output, but enough coals left for a relight.