Short of buying a probe thermometer since I have double stovepipe is the regular thermometer on the stovetop (under the swingout doors) a good spot to put it on a T5. My break in fires have been between 400-600 F according to the thermomter. Thanks for the help.
PE T5 thermometer
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certified106
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I would recommend putting the thermometer to the left or right side of the stovepipe at the back underside of the trivets as that is where it tends to be the hottest due to the baffle. I also have a probe thermometer mounted through my double wall stovepipe roughly 20" above the stove top. How are you liking the T5 so far?
Today is the first day burning it but my thermostat is set at 67F and it is reading 71F right now and I am not really running the stove very hard so as of right now I am very pleased. I ran class A chimney up the side of my house.
gasavage
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Although not required, a probe thermometer is a good investment for the T5. From my experience with the T5 (going on 4 yrs), & reading about what other folks experience, I find this stove to be an "easy breather". Meaning that it doesn't take much draft & air to operate. You can send a lot of heat up the stack on start up. I use the probe thermometer as guide to throttle the air control. If I use just the stove top themo I can really heat up chimney pipe. With a wide open control I can have a 250-300 degree stove top & a 1400 dgree probe temp very easily. This is on 14' of straight up chimney. Typically, on start up, when my probe temp hits 500, I'm throttling the control air to 50%. When the probe shows 800, the control air to around 25%. I then use the stove top temp to determine when to close the air control any further. I like to see @ 550 for that adjustment.
sblat
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I have been doing a lot of tinkering with my thermometer lately. My blower is always on low, so it keeps the surface temp of the stove down a bit. I was having a hard time getting the stove top up over 550. I moved the thermometer to about 2 inches directly in front of the flue collar. I think I am getting more acurate readings here even with the blower on, since the flue blocks a little of the air going across the to stovetop. Now I am seeing readings between 550 and 650. My 2 cents...
Congratulations Murph. It sounds like you are doing fine. I have our thermometer placed as certified noted above. That is, under the trivet, so that it is just visible through the rearmost slats, close to the flue pipe.
I put it pretty close to the corner of the trivet closest to the pipe so it is just visible under the trivet, hopefully I am getting an accurate reading there. I had it to 600 last night and could smell the curing throughout the house. So far I have walked my wife through loading it while talking to her on the phone and she has kept it going so far today.
raybonz
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xman23
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I can't comment on the breakin fires with that stove, but i assume you did a 200, 300 , 400 degree fires before going for 600. If not 600 will cure the cement. Don't worry about the smell, its burning off stuff on the outside of the stove. With each new high temp it will smell again for a while.
Although it has a cast iron skin, the T5 is a steel stove at heart. One low breakin fire is usually enough to dry out the firebrick.
There was a little insert that came with my stove that said to let the first fire stay at 400F for 30-45 minutes and then increase it to 600F and this should cure the paint. I did that and it definitely was curing from the smell. I got it back up to around 650 for a short period today and there was a slight odor and then it has been odorless ever since. The manual didn't really state any parameters about break in fires unless I missed it.I have been running it between 400 and 550 depending on how high I have the blower set.
gogreenburnwood
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Murph. I highly recommend the probe. This stove responds fast and if you wait for the stove top to catch up, you'll be wasting a lot of heat. I equate it to my old Dutchwest, waiting for the combuster to heat up and "engage" would take a long time like 1/2 hour to an hour. With the PE your enjoying secondary burns within about 5 minutes sometimes. Just Don't do what I did. The thermometer came in the mail so I installed it while my wife was at work. I put it right in the front of our freshly painted stove pipe (we re-did the hearth and painted the pipe when we got the stove). this was the optimum place because i can watch it from the couch. Man did I catch it when she got home.
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