Woodstock Absolute Steel - How to burn slow and low

Camber · Dec 18, 2018

I might have missed it, but is your wood truly dry. If not then you will have lots of char left as the stove burns from being hot on the shutdown to start with. Even splitting small like four inch splits you can run into that. I had a customer that was doing everything right, but he was not burning 20 MC and under. It was all he had though.

Mwalsh9152 · Dec 19, 2018

FeelTheBurn said: ↑

Mwalsh - when you get up in the morning, will your stove have cooled down a lot? I've been following a similar approach as you, and with the air shut down below 1, the stove seems to run along at a steady temp until it exhausts the gasses and smoke that fuel the catalytic burn. Once those are exhausted, though, the low air intake at that setting seems insufficient to burn down the remaining char, so the stove temp drops quite low until I get up and open the air back up.

I'm wondering if there's a sweet spot for the air setting and the timing of cat engagement where I can get a long slow catalytic burn while the fuel is off-gassing combustible fumes, but have enough air coming in to keep the coals burning a little better once the gasses have burned up. I'm going to experiment with engaging the cat before the stove heats up so much and see if that allows me to get a long slow catalytic burn at a high enough damper setting to keep the coals cooking once the gasses have all been consumed.
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Yes, the stove.was down to about 200-250ish STT this am. I opened the air and cracked the door while keeping the cat engaged to get the large pile of coals to.start throwing heat. It was still 69F on the first floor where the stove is.

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Woodstock Absolute Steel - How to burn slow and low

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