Whether on purpose or by accident always have been curious as to " What's the hottest your stove ever Got?" My JotulF600 stove has reached 625F and that was weird ..at least for me. What kind of stove, the Temp and was it planned or was it an OOOOPS! This should be interesting.
My nc30 routinely hits 750ish STT. The flue temps will sometimes get near 1000* (double wall probe reading). Im learning to remain calm and let it work. When I had my Osburn 2200 in it hit 800* STT a couple of times. I thought it was leaking air somewhere but I'm starting to wonder if I just want shutting it down early enough. Oh well. Now I have a backup stove
I'm pretty sure I've had the old Blaze King north of 900 before. The thermometer on the stove top was pegged hard on full hot...it was off the scale so I don't know exactly how hot it was. Had an issue with the automatic damper getting stuck. That stove is now relegated to backup duty.
Off the scale on a Rutland magnetic STT thermometer, So 8-900*. Woodstock Soapstone IS. Distorted my 1500* cat probe..
On my magnetic inferno stove top meter placed on the upper right corner of the insert I've never even hit 600*. Of course this is not the best location and I am sure that is not 100% accurate. I routinely hit and cruise at 450* - 550* going off that meter. I also used an infrared thermometer to get a more accurate reading few months back and got higher readings but it's been awhile I cannot recall.
Jotul f55 , I got it up to 800 a few times but I think my stove is made for high heat but its normally at 500 to 600 cruising, it's a beast
I've run an Englander 17-vl for 5 years now. While I don't usually run it hard, I have no worries with it reading upwards of 650 f on the face or high on the sides with 550-600 being optimum high temps if you wanna blow all your wood and heat up the stack. Stack temps these days (with a pipe damper in use) never run past 650 F ever. I did have a whoops maybe last year? where I was working on the oil furnace, and forgot about the wood stove. I also had a loose air plate so the stove was breathing too easily. That was quite the puckering moment. Although I don't recall the stove temp, it felt like sitting by the sun, and stack temps were 1100-1300 f I think.
My Enviro Kodiak insert hit at least 726 earlier this winter. I remember because I came into the house thinking what’s that smell? My wife had loaded the stove and then accidentally fell asleep! I’m not sure it’s been hotter than that. That was measured with an infrared laser thermometer as far back on the top of the insert as I could get. I normally try not to run it past 625. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
650*F on my 13NC is about as high as I'm comfortable with seeing continuous. It's hard to get enough wood into my 13 to see 650*F + for more than 2 hours anyhow!!! That said; a couple "brain farts", have put her North of 800*F.
Most any stove should be able to handle 700. That is the maximum ours is rated for but we've had it above 700 several times. We did warp the cat frame once so had to replace that but that was an easy fix.
700* on my Enerzone Insert 1.8..turned my little gold inserts kinda red...no damage done...try to keep 600* or less.
725 or so on the IS, thermometer located on the top exit block off plate. Fell asleep with draft set at 1/2. We usually flirt with 700 anyway when trying to recover the inside temp, so it wasn't too concerning. No paint curing smells or anything like that. Warmed the place up from 68 to 80 pretty quick though.
I think Ive been about 800 or 850 before by accident but that was once or twice. I normally stay south of 700. PE stoves Ive been told have a higher heat tolerance than some stoves. Not sure where I heard that from though.
