Got the new BK Chinook installed last Saturday.
The install:
New 6" rigid SS liner in a masonry chimney - it's an interior chimney.
Stove is in the partly finished basement. Stove pipe goes vertically for about 34 " - then 2 45 degree elbows - then a 1 ' piece into an excel insulated thimble - into the ss liner which is 21 feet.
So far so good: I get 12 hour burns without even trying! Am trying for a 24 hr burn right now - am about 10 hours into it and looks like almost 1/2 the wood is gone. Tsat is at 1.5 and the stovetop is maintaining just under 300.
The wood: fir and Larch which has been split and stacked for 3 years. Nothing tests more than about 15%.
Question: I have a thermometer on the stove top - but it's really a convection deck. The actual stove top is 2" below. My readings obviously are from the deck, do does anyone know how to convert from deck temp to st temp? eg. my stove is cruising right now at 300 on the deck - what is the actual stovetop temp?
Smoke issue: Boy does this baby smoke!! After a reload I go out to look at the chimney and it looks like a steam locomotive spewing smoke! - smells bad too! I'll try to get some pics up for you.
I used the same chimney setup with another EPA stove for about 5 or 6 fires. It acted just like my other chimney does with my Oslo - a little smoke on reload but none after the secondaries are engaged.
Even after closing the by pass, it smokes really badly for awhile --then slowly cleans up. Takes about 5 hours before it's clean
I spoke to the tech at the BK plant in Penticton...good guy and really helpful. I asked how the smoke gets by the combuter and spews out the chimney. He said that all the smoke will be definitely going through the combuster...but if the chimney has excessive draft the smoke will be going so fast that there won't be time for the combuster to "catch" all of it.
He suggested that I install a key damper to slow down the draft a little. Haven't tried that yet - will likely do that tomorrow.
Any other BK owners have this problem?
Also, today - about 4 hours into the burn - I went up on the roof to check out the smoke--only a small amount drifting out by that time. Honestly, it was more like water vapour than smoke. Very little smell to it, and I put my hand into the chimney and it was barely warm. What alarmed me was that the inside if the chimney was quite wet, and also it was dripping down the side of the SS onto the masonry cap. Not really creasote - just a slightly brown liquid! What gives here? Condensation?
Any input will be appreciated. Sorry for such a long post!
(got 1 pic up - buts it's probably 1mg!! Something else to figure out!!)
The install:
New 6" rigid SS liner in a masonry chimney - it's an interior chimney.
Stove is in the partly finished basement. Stove pipe goes vertically for about 34 " - then 2 45 degree elbows - then a 1 ' piece into an excel insulated thimble - into the ss liner which is 21 feet.
So far so good: I get 12 hour burns without even trying! Am trying for a 24 hr burn right now - am about 10 hours into it and looks like almost 1/2 the wood is gone. Tsat is at 1.5 and the stovetop is maintaining just under 300.
The wood: fir and Larch which has been split and stacked for 3 years. Nothing tests more than about 15%.
Question: I have a thermometer on the stove top - but it's really a convection deck. The actual stove top is 2" below. My readings obviously are from the deck, do does anyone know how to convert from deck temp to st temp? eg. my stove is cruising right now at 300 on the deck - what is the actual stovetop temp?
Smoke issue: Boy does this baby smoke!! After a reload I go out to look at the chimney and it looks like a steam locomotive spewing smoke! - smells bad too! I'll try to get some pics up for you.
I used the same chimney setup with another EPA stove for about 5 or 6 fires. It acted just like my other chimney does with my Oslo - a little smoke on reload but none after the secondaries are engaged.
Even after closing the by pass, it smokes really badly for awhile --then slowly cleans up. Takes about 5 hours before it's clean
I spoke to the tech at the BK plant in Penticton...good guy and really helpful. I asked how the smoke gets by the combuter and spews out the chimney. He said that all the smoke will be definitely going through the combuster...but if the chimney has excessive draft the smoke will be going so fast that there won't be time for the combuster to "catch" all of it.
He suggested that I install a key damper to slow down the draft a little. Haven't tried that yet - will likely do that tomorrow.
Any other BK owners have this problem?
Also, today - about 4 hours into the burn - I went up on the roof to check out the smoke--only a small amount drifting out by that time. Honestly, it was more like water vapour than smoke. Very little smell to it, and I put my hand into the chimney and it was barely warm. What alarmed me was that the inside if the chimney was quite wet, and also it was dripping down the side of the SS onto the masonry cap. Not really creasote - just a slightly brown liquid! What gives here? Condensation?
Any input will be appreciated. Sorry for such a long post!
(got 1 pic up - buts it's probably 1mg!! Something else to figure out!!)