Soapstone Hybrid stove for a fireplace installation.

No was in shape buy CSS the 12 cord a year got fat and lazy in living room feeding every 2 hours..

I posted in IS thread my shock when we left on Friday afternoon got back Sunday afternoon and did not need a match still a bed of coals throwing heat..

to be fair IS is about the size of a standard kitchen stove. 13 could probably fit in it

 

burning slow is not a very specific or even a repeatable condition. Your draft changes by some amount as the temp outside changes. My 'slow' burn could be 'far too slow' by someone else's definition.
Plus some stoves don't burn 'slow' any more because you can't slow the air input rate to "zero' any more. Plus some stoves the secondary burn tube air input is a different source than the primary air. The chimney just ends up sucking more air thru the secondary input when the primary is turned down.
I can get a black sooted window from burning "too slow" on the True North and I don't burn unseasooned wood. I learned about dry wood advantages decades ago. "Too slow on that stove is very very close to "fire goes out". I've done both.

 

Man that stove should not be on the market.Every three hours before adding wood is a crime.Glad you got the IS.Does it do the job ?

 

Its not...been gone since 2020...might even have been 2017...

 

IS keeps the house comfortable..
I probably run it harder than most. Jan and feb try to keep STT 600+ as -20 happens most years.
Englander are not bad stoves, that one was way undersized for my needs.

 

Sounds like you might have had to push even a NC30 a bit...which was almost twice the size of the 13

 

I don't know where your getting your stats from, but, they are not correct.
Cat stoves are very stingy with wood use.

 

He's probably reading the stats from available stoves today for sale at dealers in 2022.
Hybrids are CAT stoves, CAT stoves are not hybrids.
But I could be wrong, I'm not a mind reader.

 

EPA reports on CAT stoves vs tube stoves vs hybrid stoves. Do your own research and see. EPA reports are the most consistent vs individual operation which can vary greatly. Most EPA reports are listed on the manufacturer's site.

 

Luke I find the EPA numbers misleading as manufacturers perform the test with kiln dried 2x4s not cordwood.

of course they do easiest way to control wood variable in the testing phase. IME there is a huge difference between real world and scientifically controlled environments.

example wood be fireplaces in our winters they actually draw heat out of homes.

 

Ya I don't agree with these wood heat charts that down play the btu's of Elm.My Elm is my best wood.Charts say no.Phoey on that !

 

Not necessarily, some use cord wood...you have to look at the chart, see which way they tested each model stove...4th column from the right. They are in the process of changing the testing method yet again though...someone found some loopholes and exploited them...imagine that.