Well, I still have no explanation for why our stove seems to refuse to breathe, but in testing tonight, I did find out something else interesting....
I'm keeping the STT. My endgame is firebox, cat, STT, and flue. If all goes as planned, by tonight I'll have everything except the firebox probe...
Oh yeah, that's not even the farthest we've pushed that one. That's just the most we've pulled a distance in heavy traffic. Last fall, the...
It probably doesn't matter much, but I don't think these are actual Eco Bricks. They're sold under TSC's store-brand name Redstone, but the bricks...
Normal price is 3.50*100-15=$335 Right now they're supposed to be 2.99*100-15=$284 So I got them for half of normal or almost $120 less than...
[img] I'm using a different image hosting service than normal, so hopefully you see a tag from Tractor Supply above this. A tag with an important...
Yeah, we've lit it several times with starting temps from the mid-50s to the low-40s. You can read in the "Production IS" thread about the...
OK, so I've been reading the Chemosphere paper on the use of Pt/Pd catalytic converters in small wood burners. 0) The researchers reiterate many...
Yes, that was one of the things I checked very early on. The guillotine valves do open and close in what looks like a proper manner
My wife has full-text access to the journal that published that article. She's going to download it for me sometime tonight and I'll try to get it...
I am now 100% sure that the stove has a breathing problem and I'm ~90% sure it's the stove's fault. I went down to TSC and bought some of the...
Yes, it's connected to an OAK, so that should resolve the "house too tight" problem for the primary and secondary air but it still behaves like it...
The weather has not changed much at all. It's been between 40F and 55F every burn we've done, good initial ones and these horrible ones. No...
When it cools tomorrow, I'll take a picture of the baffle. Wood supply is better than I expected for the first year. As I said, it's coming in at...
Alright, I am at my wit's end with this stove. Break in burn #1 went fine. Break in burn #2 went fine and longer/hotter than #1. Then I did the...
Can you provide a link to or a part number for the digital Condair cat probe? I've only seen their mechanical one.
So the answer, for my install, is that 57-58F is pretty darned marginal but it'll do it. Ends up needing a long time to get going and needing the...
If you haven't noticed, I posted several times in a row up there while being astonished at my stove. Most of the show is over now. It's settled...
Holy crap! It heated up enough to get a little paint smelly again so my wife went upstairs to open a window and let it vent. About a second or so...
New addition: there's now flames around the cat visible around the cat (looking up through the window to the top of the firebox.
