Maybe by only a few minutes, but if you are waiting to turn the damper down every minute counts. I've got other things to do. I like having a day's supply inside.
The timer on my phone gets set most of the time so I can go back to doing something else without risking forgetting the stove is in BLAZE START mode... 5 to 9 minutes is normal for going from just loaded to "shut down the primary air". Sometimes it takes a little longer if I have totally packed the firebox tight with wood.
The dehumidifier uses about 400 watts. We're on a tiered system in Ontario for electricity rates so I only run it between 7 at night to 7 in the morning when usage costs 8 cents per kwh. I never costed it out but the benefit of drier wood has to outweigh the cost. The furnace fan uses about 450 watts when it's running and I don't run both at the same time.
Glad your system works for you I burn about half a cord per week of some large wood. 12 inch rounds of hickory for example. I have to be years ahead otherwise I am sizzling!!! You certainly have a rock solid system. And I wish I could do the same!!! Can you try leaving one large split in there....say 12 x 12 to see how it comes out? I may enclose my wood shed and throw s dehumidifier in it as the summer humidity is challenging, regardless of being css 3 years....
We had that system when we lived in Belgium, day-night meters. We always did laundry and baked cakes and pies at 2100hrs.
There may be some conditions that require a clinical name so that sufferers can get some help. That being said, My BIL's wife is a Beeach plain and simple. Once at a get together she was actively being one and said "it was to bad for us but we had to put up with her because she had a condition called (insert some strange psychobabble name) and couldn't help herself". A good friend of mine who talks straight from the shoulder replied "Isn't it interesting that Psychologists have come up with all sorts of new clinical names for what are just good old fashioned character flaws"! They are no longer on speaking terms!
It used to be worse. We were paying over 18 cents per kwh during the day at one point. It was lowered to 13 cents a couple of years ago because of the public outcry. We used to be one of the cheapest places in North America for electricity pricing but the green lobby co-opted our gov. and raised the rates through the roof to pay for playtoys like solar panels and windmills that make no economic sense whatsoever. Countries worldwide are starting to see the folly of that.
