I was fiddling with the low burns for most of the day yesterday.
Could not keep the cat active at 1.
Could not keep the cat active at 1.5.
So last night I set the cat to 1.75 just inside the normal range.
This morning the stove is again in the inactive zone. More than half the fuel remains. These are solid pieces of wood not coals. It took only a couple of minutes for the fire to get back up to raging with the remaining fuel.
The lowest I have successfully kept the cat in the active zone is 2. Which like I have said is insufficient to keep the room warm and apparently higher than most of you keep your stoves on.
Do you have an outside air kit? Is there anything that could be pulling air and creating a draft issue? Like furnace, dryer, exhaust fan, etc. Is there a window in the room you can crack open?
If you have a decent draft and dry wood, there is no reason to not have that room at tropical temps at the lowest setting, with no blower.