Hello all, I am not new to burning, just new to an epa stove. Have been operating it for about a week and 1/2. My question is about what I will call tremendous secondaries. I had secondary burn that went on and on, what you want, right? Looked in at stainless tubes and they had a dull red glow. Shut stove way down with primary air and tubes just kept pumping out the small flames. Eventually closed stove pipe damper and got it way down. Went out this morning, 3 small splits and everything seems ok. Have you all seen tubes this hot? Wondering about damage? Thanks.
Hello Jwin Welcome Sounds pretty normal, secondary tubes glowing is pretty common. Your wood must be nice and dry. What is the stove? Were you monitoring stove top temp and or flue temp?
Wouldn't worry, information needed to better answer the question would be; type of stove, how dry is your wood, what species of wood how old is it Etc
Stove is Drolet Myriad II. Wood is red oak, 3 years old, stored in barn. Moisture is below 18%. Stove pipe is 22 gauge single wall with a condor magnetic and an Auber digital probe. Stove top monitored with an ir meter. I had loaded wood up on a cold stove restart all the way up close the tubes in the top down method. I just had not seen such hot secondaries before. Thanks so much for your responses. I feel better now.
Welcome to the club, Jwin! Sounds like you have learned what a perfect burn looks like! That is when you are getting the most btu's out of your wood. No need to worry about those tubes, thats what they do.
Hey Jwin , welcome aboard. As long as the stove and pipe aren't glowing, you're gooder. Those SS tubes are pretty tough. I've never looked at mine when the stove is choochin' along......last night's fire would have been a good time to check.
I’m somewhere near 20 years into my stove. The secondary air pipes get red hot all the time. No issues. Let them burn.
