As some of you may know I recently put a Lopi Endeavor in the upstairs of my home. Upstairs is aprox 1100 sqft. My wife has burned wood all her life in those old but beautiful but non efficient non-airtight wood stoves. She is the non-nervous type, complete opposite of me. Just the way I am I guess. We've already had a chimney fire in our Yukon-Husky Oil/Wood furnace (last year?) and I don't want to go through that again. That was partial to my ignorance with the necessary quality of wood that is needed for proper combustion.
At any rate. I'm trying to figure out the best temperature to burn my flue gasses at. I have a pretty good understanding on how to use a magnetic thermometer on the outside of a single wall stove pipe, keeping the flue gasses about 250F and not much higher than 550F. I understand that the water vapor will condense once dropped below the boiling point of water at to make sure that doesn't happen you need to keep your stack temperature high enough.
I have a double wall stove pipe with a probe thermometer. One of the digital auber unit's. My question remains that what should my flue gas temperature range/max be during start up and cruise? I find the stove pipe on probe gets to 7-800 easily and could easily get up further during initial start ups. Is this okay to do this every time I start a fire and is this normal? Gut tells me yes as long as their's not an excess of creosote built up in the pipes that could cause and uncontrollable chimney fire.
Since flue gasses will be higher in temperature than the surface temperature, what should I go by for proper start up and cruise temperature? I'm starting to think that I should be going by the magnetic thermo on the stove top when the Lopi is at cruise, keeping the stove top from reaching about 700 should keep my flue temperature at a reasonable level. The only true way to tell what the proper temperature should be during cruise is to purchase another probe and put it at the exit on top of the stack.
**Main thing I want others to re-assure me on is 1) Is it okay during start ups to run the flue GAS temperature up to 8-900F for up to 15-20 minutes while stove top temperature rises. and 2) What is a good cruise temperature of the flue GAS since I have no way of knowing the external surface temperature of the double wall pipe. I don't want to produce more creosote when i could easily raise the temperature,and if the probe reads 500-550 the pipe may only be 300? And does this even matter since the probe gives me what the flue gasses are instead of relying on a magnetic thermo most use on single wall pipe.
As I said earlier to ease my mind I think I just may have to purchase a new probe and attach it to the top of the stack and experiment with flue gas temps at the stove vs flue gas temps at the top. Ugh!
Or I could just listen to my wife and stop worrying, I just don't want my life possessions to go up in flames.
At any rate. I'm trying to figure out the best temperature to burn my flue gasses at. I have a pretty good understanding on how to use a magnetic thermometer on the outside of a single wall stove pipe, keeping the flue gasses about 250F and not much higher than 550F. I understand that the water vapor will condense once dropped below the boiling point of water at to make sure that doesn't happen you need to keep your stack temperature high enough.
I have a double wall stove pipe with a probe thermometer. One of the digital auber unit's. My question remains that what should my flue gas temperature range/max be during start up and cruise? I find the stove pipe on probe gets to 7-800 easily and could easily get up further during initial start ups. Is this okay to do this every time I start a fire and is this normal? Gut tells me yes as long as their's not an excess of creosote built up in the pipes that could cause and uncontrollable chimney fire.
Since flue gasses will be higher in temperature than the surface temperature, what should I go by for proper start up and cruise temperature? I'm starting to think that I should be going by the magnetic thermo on the stove top when the Lopi is at cruise, keeping the stove top from reaching about 700 should keep my flue temperature at a reasonable level. The only true way to tell what the proper temperature should be during cruise is to purchase another probe and put it at the exit on top of the stack.
**Main thing I want others to re-assure me on is 1) Is it okay during start ups to run the flue GAS temperature up to 8-900F for up to 15-20 minutes while stove top temperature rises. and 2) What is a good cruise temperature of the flue GAS since I have no way of knowing the external surface temperature of the double wall pipe. I don't want to produce more creosote when i could easily raise the temperature,and if the probe reads 500-550 the pipe may only be 300? And does this even matter since the probe gives me what the flue gasses are instead of relying on a magnetic thermo most use on single wall pipe.
As I said earlier to ease my mind I think I just may have to purchase a new probe and attach it to the top of the stack and experiment with flue gas temps at the stove vs flue gas temps at the top. Ugh!
Or I could just listen to my wife and stop worrying, I just don't want my life possessions to go up in flames.
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continuous operation,
). If you keep the flue temp at around 900
