High Temperature Alarm?

I had my stove pipe on my old stove starting to turn red.
I've had my alarm go off, a couple of times this year, no real problem just adjusted the air

 

I should being getting a temperature controller and thermoouple in the mail from auberins tomorrow. I have an insert and I don't the temperature readings from either the bimetallic thermometer or IR gun. At the least this stuff should get me a better reading. It has a relay, and I plan to cycle the high speed mode of the fan to keep temps down to some level. It gets high, I believe, with the air closed down all the way-high chimney, good wood, cold temps, with a new insert. I could add an alarm too, I guess. If this works, it'd shut down the high speed to low speed, which is a lot less noisy too.

 

My alarm just saved my butt again.
I got distracted, heard the alarm go off, ran into the stove room, pipe hit 1300 degrees
Shut the air down turned the blower on full blast, cooled down pretty quick, disaster averted.


 

I usually keep a pretty good eye on the stove for the first hour.
I was checking out my new pasta pot, I got off the porch
Goes to show you how fast it can get hot, the alarm goes off at 900 so it went up that much from the time the alarm went off till I got in to it

 

That's the kind of thing that makes me "as nervous as a long tailed cat in a rocking chair factory".

Can't remember first time I heard that one, but I like it.
Seriously though, I may have to through this thread a bit, as I didn't know you had high temp alarms you can set up.
Good to know though.

Glad you caught and controlled the issue quickly.. sounds like it could very easily end poorly.

 

Yeah go through the thread there's plenty of information.
With my old stove, I knew there was a problem when I would , smell that smell and I find the pipe starting to turn red

 

I think my thermocouple probe is going bad?...is this a thing?...do they have a life span?

The temp randomly starts jumping all over the place...wild swings. If I unplug it from the slave unit and then plug it back in it fixes it sometime only for a few minutes, sometimes for a day or two. I've cleaned the probe and the connection at the slave unit is solid. I even have a spare slave unit and it will do the same thing when I plug it into that.

 

Sounds like an intermittent short or broken connection.

 

Never had anything like that with mine.
First time I cleaned my pipe with it in there, forgot to take it out, bent it all up, I straightened it out and it seemed to work fine but, just in case I bought a new one and replaced it.
Never had any wild swings or anything.

 

My Condar cat probe lasted 1 month...now it reads from -150 to 800 degrees...
What a waste of $25

 

Whistling tea kettle on a trivet on the stove.
My wife likes her tea and coffee, I use the whistle to know when the stove is up to temp. It would be shrieking in an overheat.
The trivet keeps it hot but not boiling at normal temps, I use it to let me know that it's time to turn everything down after lighting it, or a reload on coals

 

I remember that picture.

I bought a new one anyway, was really just wondering about failures.

 

Well , all I can tell ya is , no failures on my set up since 2015
Let us know if new probe fixes the problem

 

Have not posted in a while, so here is a little update:
Retired the Regency F1100, and purchased a new BK Ashford 20, really like it.
For the new BK I decided to make a new updated temp controller /alarm.
This one has three controllers, Flue, cat and stove top. The controllers all have alarms, and the stove top
controller also turns on the blower at 675*.
The flue alarm is stet to 875* and doesn't usually go off that much. It definitely will let you know if forget and leave the door open
The cat alarm is set to 365* the temp where the cat is active and you need to close the damper. (Also good if you become distracted and forget)
The stove top is set to 775* and has a TC bonded to the steel top under the cast iron jacket.
I really like having the monitor/ alarm, you can easily see what the stove is doing, and helps prevent over-firing.

 

Nice set up

 

I just got mine today, they say it need a 1/8 (3mm) hole but I checked my probe and it would need a 5/32 (4mm) hole

which size is your probe and which size is the hole that you made?

 

What exactly did you get ?

 

I guess that would help

AT210-Combo from auber instrument with 4 inch probe

 

The 4 inch probe for double wall pipe Should be An 1/8 " prob, Maybe they sent you the wrong thing .
Can You post a pic of it ?