Less wood in stove. I used to fill it completely, stacking every piece like a jigsaw puzzle. I had the wood touching the secondary plate and...
That's easy to see, yours is breathing fire. I see your pets hiding behind the glass.
At some point I may try the damper but, I have double wall flue pipe and with the current set up I burn a little over 2 cords/yr to heat 1900ish...
Here are the last 2 nights fire data graphs, with and without modified radiator. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Both nights I tried to have...
Just make sure the cat surface strait up, parallel to the stove body, not pointing rearwards towards the flue. I usually flip mine after every...
I hear you. Interesting thing, my beta stove took waaayyyy more abuse for the time I had it. I buried the magnetic thermometers at least a...
Atop the radiator would likely be best, so to not actually restrict the air flow and just redirect it with the mod on the back of the radiator....
Tacking the piece on the back of the radiator will not likely prevent warpage on the front edge. You would need something closer to the problem area.
BDF is the originator of the idea, i was just first inline to get on the bus.:salute: It's more like a restrict or plate for the flow through the...
Somthing just like this. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
It does not close off completely. I used a 2 in piece flat stock cut and trimmed to fit. Added two small 90° brackets to the falt stock then...
Yes, the numbers do support the modification. There is a noticeable increase in surface temp and an almost equal difference in reduction of flue...
This is the stuff I purchased type: K 24 AWG Thermocouple wire High Tempiture REFRASIL 1600 F The two individual strands are wrapped then both...
It was a special high temp wrap. The normal wires coating can't withstand the heat from the heat of the fire box. I'll do some digging to see...
I had noticed near the end of the last season my catalyst was getting a little slow to ignite after initial engagement compared to when it was...
I think it was back in the early stages of the thread I'm thinking pg 20-30 i may be wrong but, we are at over 100 now. No one could remember all...
I think it may have been mentioned several pages back in this thread.
I used 2 of these, one for the cat and one for flue. The flue I think was 4 in and cat was 6 in. I had to find a different type of shielded...
K Type Digital Thermometer Thermocouple 4 Channel Meter SD Card Logger Generic | eBay
If you want to go digital I would look at this one. [ATTACH]I got off ebay, only bad thing it comes on a slow boat from China. You can set alarms...
