Pacific Energy True North

Bought one a month ago.
Fairly easy stove to use.
I'll still have coals in the morning after 9/10 hours,(air at low stop ) enough to throw some small pine kindling, open the air all the way and have a fire going again in a couple of minutes.
Not much of a manual, not sure if the air adjust cuts back air to the secondary tubes .
Wish the fire box was a little taller, especially after two weeks of ash has accumulated in the bottom.
Easy to hit the tubes.

I didn't get the blower.
Have been burning mostly cherry and maple so far. Throw two big splits of oak in at 9PM. That's it till 6/7 AM.

Haven't pushed it yet as burning as low as possible has sufficed so far.
550 on top / 600 on the glass front when it's going good with nice secondaries.

First small fire after two tiny starters to bake the paint.
Little canon camera didn't capture the secondaries well.


A little soot on the glass. May have been the firebrick drying out.
Will look almost that bad at 6AM, but once a good fire is going there's just a little on the sides.

This is my first time burning on a wood stove and purchased one this past summer. Have been heating my house with it since mid October. I burn soft spruce (don't have access to anything else) and am quite pleased with it. I have no frame of reference to any other stove so I don't know if this is exceeding my expectations as I had no real expectations going in.

My wood was only seasoned one summer so my wood might be a bit green yet, however I usually have to have the air about .5 cm off all the way cut off. If I leave it cut off completely the temp gets too low and secondaries do not engage (however if the firebox is real hot and the wood real dry it can be closed all the way down).

I purchased the blower and am quite happy with it. It's a bit loud, but it moves the heat around my place. I had similar glass issues as the previous poster at first but they have mostly gone away. Very little soot on glass after two months of burning.

Tough to load E/W unless you have smaller pieces, and I agree on short box. Sometimes I hit the fiber baffel board and worry that I am damaging it.

On a full load of spruce I can get about 6 hours or so.

All in all I am very happy with the stove from a value perspective. Incredible deal from a quality manufacture at a great pricepoint. My next house will have a blaze king as I seek a longer burn time and a more moderate temperature (I live in a very mild rain forest in AK..it's 40 and raining now).

Saw one burning at my local shop last year, its a plain and simple good looking heater....