Englander 17 in two different moods

I like fire videos so I thought I'd put a couple short ones here. One is low and slow (and a rare capture, this is a going to bed, quasi top down fire) and the other is when spousal unit is cold or I slept too long! I actually run it more in the middle of these extremes but thought the contrast of idle mode and give 'er mode was neat.

High quality in the dark using a potato 5s phone.



Cold spouse mode

 

The second video looks like the way my 30 runs most of the time

 

As long as your warm

 

And my 13!!

 

Nothing wrong with running it like that at all. I found for myself with a smaller stove, that a longer run with relaxed flame bouncing between 350-450F keeps a more even heat in the shack than winding her out.

 

Nice vids.

 

Well, I wouldn't go that far just finally captured low and slow and thought some of you would be amused. It actually burns fairly hot even though it's not lit up like a brush fire. It basically burns off hot smoke mostly at the back tube, and creates a 2"x 16" x 10" hot spot above the wood/below the baffle. I'll gain an extra hour or better settling it in like this. No magic involved though, just burning the same wood over a longer time. Long as I'm not freezing to death when I wake up, that's all that matters.

 

You've got that 17 dialed in for your needs and that in itself is a great job! I went with the 13 for the cottage (years ago) only because I didn't believe the 17 would handle it. At just over 500 s.f.........I wanted the cottage to be able to heat up as quick as it could!

The 17 would have saved a bunch of install work such as no hearth.

 

I've definitely got it running and figured out about as good as I can, and it suits my needs fairly well. Just needs a secondary air control lever. And louvered air vents on the front. And maybe a removable top so I can cook with it.

 

You can't cook with it with the blower off ?

 

Unfortunately no. The stove top only gets hot to a point, maybe 350 f on a hard burn. But it sure does blow some hot air.

 

Hmmm,
according to Bill Nye the Science Guy you can cook an egg on the sidewalk if the sidewalk is 130 ºF. ( He used a griddle because a sidewalk actually doesn't work ) . It took 20 minutes so it probably wasn't a very good tasting egg.

Just wondering because considering replacing an ancient 1 cu ft box stove.

 

I could give it a try one of these days, but I run the fan so much, it's hard to know what kind of temp it holds at and for how long. I'll put a small cast pan on later just to see what temp it gets to with fan running.

For an example, stove is 550 F on side hotspot, 470-480 front face above door, stove top front and center 240 f, rear corners 140 f, front corners 220-230 f right now. The stove might come up in temp a little bit, but not much seeing the fan is on high. I put a little cast pan on to see what temp it hits. We'll be out the door in less than an hour, but it should give me some idea.

 

Little cast pan made it to 165-180 f depending where you point the laser, so obviously there would be more temp with no fan running, but still not a real viable option in my opinion.

 

Thanks.
Doesn't sound like you could boil water on it.


What's the pot for ?

 

I have a random drip that pops up now and then when the weather gets above -8 C. No clue if it's from frost, sun on the roof, or snow making it past the chimney flashing (the cone with air slots on the roof) but it's there if I need it. I don't believe you could boil water with this stove.

 

Maybe you should seal around your storm collar after you make sure that it is low enough to the flashing.

 

The collar is sealed above those slots/holes in the flashing. I'll have a look and see if the gasket stuff has deteriorated the next time I'm up there.

 

Thats just he reason why my garage stove was leaking. The sealant failed around the storm collar and the littlest bit of water kept coming down the pipe during heavy rain...fised with silicone this time.....not gutter seal! picard