Maybe one of you guys has run one of these. I got a call from my brother house sitting a house boat and was concerned that the stack temp hit 600 on the outside of the single wall pipe an hour into the burn with a full load and the air cut back. I guess the temps went down after a couple minutes. Temp outside was -12. He also said that there was some black flakes around the snow and on the ice. Told him to get up and pop the cap off and check for accumulation or evidence of a fire. I am guessing there was a possible mild chimney fire, fortunately the house has class A in it. My bad sense of humor got the best of me, " Well if the house burns down you won't have to worry about the fire department coming out, it will sink through the ice and put itself out". I kind of want to make the trip out and see this house boat and run the stove! So what is the normal cruising temp on this? My old downdraft stove would hit 600 on single wall no problem when temps were -0 +
with the cold temps it was probably just pullin a real hard draft causing the flue temp to go a little higher than normal. If he shut the air down and temps dropped, the stove is acting like it should. The black flakes are probably just dried creosote that burned off and out.
I have a different model but my Drolet after it settles down and the air reduced runs a flue temp of 300 to 350 surface temp. With a very strong draft it will run higher but I can keep it below 45o or so by reducing the air more then normal. My Summit was stupid crazy with flue temps and 6oo was normal if I wanted a hot stove with 7oo on startup common place.
My little bitty eldorado will have temps on the single wall (about 6" from stove top) anywhere from 375f-475f ish.
I see temps of 600+ regularly on my Answer about 16" off the stove top on a single wall pipe. I start shutting it down when the needle hits the middle of the thermometer but I don't get too excited if it over-runs just a bit. Like others have said the black flakes were probably just some soot that got blown out during the vigorous burn.
I posted this off memory. (should know better by now!) As today I am using the stove, the temps reported above should reflect the stove top temps and not the temps of the single wall vent. Sorry. The vent temps a typically 50 degrees less-ish.
I use a Eastwood 1800 and it will often run at 600 according to my probe thermometer mounted at 18" above the stove top. If I put some crate wood in it it can go to 800 and until I cut off the primary some. I'll have the stove fan on and a pedistal fan behind the stove to blow on the top. This is nice when I've come home and the house is in the mid 50's and its zero or colder out. It heats the place fast! It was -19 F last night. A chilly night!
