Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all you Firewood Hoarders out there! Thought I’d update you on my progress. I’m finding that I need to...
….. sometimes are expected and normal. Lately I have been loading in the morning (a relatively small load) and in the evening. It has not been...
So lately I’ve been doing fine with controlling the stove, I think. The catalytic probe thermometer has been helping me greatly. It has helped me...
Question. Last night, full load on a reload. When the stove peaked, I had somewhat aggressive secondaries rolling in the top front. All of my temp...
Some of the wood is two years, some is one year. The wood that is one year is less than 20% moisture. Maple, birch, beech.
Am I doing this right?
I am trying to follow Hoytman’s advice, but it’s hard for me to be patient sometimes and then I try putting too much wood in. I’m trying to limit...
Somewhat of an aggressive fire tonight on a full firebox. I’m trying to not use the key damper. That can’t be right to use the key damper. Has to...
So I thought I figured it out, but on a full reload. The one I described above. I ended up with a higher burn rate than I wanted. I must be able...
Tonight I was able to ignite the cat when the probe reached 700. I’m able to tell because after closing the bypass, the temp steady climbed to 800...
That is a really good piece of information, I’ll try that!
8 inch.
What I think this is going to be really helpful for me is on a reload knowing when to engage the cat. I think I was waiting way too long resulting...
The temp that I find on the Condar that consistently ignites the CAT may be dependent on the distance the probe sits from the CAT too. I think...
The active range is about 700 to 1700
Yes Eckie. I attempted to engage the CAT twice by closing the bypass flap/closing that lever. The directions on the probe say that if the temps...
I think it may be because my CAT is older and because of that may need higher temp to ignite it? I think I’ve heard guys in here talk about that....
Condar probe
I got my Condar probe tonight and installed it. Cold start. Tried to engage CAT at 600, didn’t climb after a few minutes. Tried to engage at 700,...
This morning, pipe temp just short of 300 and STT 300. This pm pipe temp 250 and STT about 320.
