Want to cover my bases

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Osagebndr

Osagebndr

Minister of Fire
Feb 20, 2014
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Central Indiana
We are going to be getting a PE summit installed in a couple days and I just want to cover a few things that I have been reading here. 1. I have a 12 ft flue and am adding 2 ft of chimney before the install to get above the peak of my roof. 2. 3 break in fires and suggested temps for them.
3. I'm getting a probe flue therm. And is 900 too hot ?
I have more q& a but I'm working them out right now. Thanks for your knowledge it has helped tremendously with my buck , I'm anxious to see this new stove perform
 
whens the installation date? For a steel stove, I normally just make 3 fires with some kindling and maybe one small split. get the surface temp to 300 or so, let the stove cool down to room temp between burns. Never used a flue probe. What kind of chimney do you have now, and how are you planning on extending it?
 
To answer the OP, you should have a stove top magnetic thermometer (or IR gun) plus a flue probe. One tells you the state of the stove, one tells you the exact state of the fire. These can be completely different animals. 900 is not too hot for the flue but it is where my alarm is set, so it's on the top of the range - for me. 900 is too hot for the stove, except for a rare occurrence. Make sure your chimney is above the roof line at least as much as the code demands, higher is better as your total length is not very much - at least from how I read it.
 
I have 12' of chimney top of stove straight up 2 more ft will get me 18" above the roof line and installation is tommorrow . Been planning on extending the chimney for awhile but been way to busy to do it. I am getting a flue probe from condar shortly as I have double wall stove pipe and I've read that's the best to use with it
 
I broke in my Summit yesterday and yes the curing paint stunk, I cross stacked 12 pieces of oak kindling making a small tower. It burned for about 35 minutes, it was hot enough to make the inside of the stove sweat(less than 200 degrees). After a complete cool down period I built a second fire that was the same size. I let it cool completely before burned a third fire late last night about a third more wood than the other fires. This morning I got a kindling fire going and added a couple of maple logs, at the coal stage I added 4 good sized oak logs let the fire burn up to about 425 degrees before choking it off to maintain this temp. I've had it burning all day now and some pine splits I burned got up to 550 degrees about an hour ago. I've got 2 mulberry logs I'm getting ready to burn and then let it go out and cool over night.
 
900F stove top temp is much too hot. 900F internal flue temp will happen if you don't shut down the stove early enough. You don't want to go there if possible. It's a waste of heat, but it will happen Occasionally we all have a spaceout or distraction. Carry a timer if you are not in front of the stove during startup.
 
Good info 2 pistol. Did it throw some heat during break in? The stove is gonna be our main heat source. I'm going to install the the chimney pipe tommorrow before installation and clean the flue while I'm at it. Can't wait
 
Not much heat as the fire didn't burn long enough but the stove got very warm, my main goal yesterday was to dry out the firebricks, expand and contract the metal and cure the paint. It hardly smells at all today.
 
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Got it installed today. Had our first break in fire at350* already got secondaries pics are with it am pretty happy just waiting for it to get back to room temp and go at it again. Need to order a probe therm from condar tommorrow got the flue up to 250 on outside of dbl wall pipe thinking 600 inside temp maybe but very glad I got this unit
 
Awesome fire. Any bad odor?
 
Slight not real bad, smelled like the dbl wall when it was first fired that stove holds and puts out heat for sure.
 
So how big a load was your second fire ? I'm starting to think I'm running light.
 
Very light, same as the first 200 degrees. I burned hot all day yesterday (475) and this morning (525). Hogwildz says the Summit should be way hotter than that, but I'm not using it to heat my house. After Christmas, once the lights and other holiday stuff is gone from around the hearth I'll fire it up nice and hot. I ordered a magnetic thermometer to stick to the hot spot on the stove, I just don't want to over fire the stove before I'm familiar with it.
 
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Here's a pic if the second fire it now just simmering with a little flame and some secondaries.
 
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Note that the fan should be considered a combustible and clearances to it honored.
 
Rite on begreen, there's a good 18" between it and the stove. I'm on burn 3 now maybe should start another thread? Stove is breaking in nicely just takes awhile to warm up. Added 2ft of flue helped out a lot and a roof guy kit and I caulked around all the screws too
 
Opened the air up slightly after this pic, not sure if it should be or owners manual is a little vague but got nice secondaries and wood is coaling well
 
Put a small load in after work and going to put an all nighter on shortly . Stove top is at 250* is this going to hurt anything ?
 
250? It might hurt your hand if you hold it too long on the stove.
 
This is too cool although I think the flue is getting upto 800-900 got it half way down
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