There's no way I can answer that question. Can't tell you what the chances are of tornadoes either. Ask the neighbors about lightning strikes on their houses.
My gf does the same thing. They don't understand that u need a healthy bed of coals before closing the damperHow do you get a 1/2" of creosote in just one month. That stove must have been blowing smoke like a freight train. Have you ever looked outside to see if it is clean or smoking.
I know I was outside the other day and I look up at the pipe from my wood stove and see smoke pouring out of it.
I quickly go inside the house to find the wife loaded wood in the stove on coals that were only hot enough to make it smolder but not take off and burn.
We are in Oklahoma. A few years ago i watched a tornado go outside my bedroom window.There's no way I can answer that question. Can't tell you what the chances are of tornadoes either. Ask the neighbors about lightning strikes on their houses.
Thermo outside reads 40. I do live between the Walnut and Rich Mountains.I looked up the weather in your area.. right now its 50 deg with 66% humidity, you might have draft resistance issues. Where you live do you have inversion problems..ie lots of foggy mornings?
Could be location requires more chimney to build draft. But I would check the chimney cap screen is the first candidate for checking. Once it starts clogging the best stove will get sluggish.Thermo outside reads 40. I do live between the Walnut and Rich Mountains.
Can you convince one to switch their major to thermodynamics?I have twins gratuating and going to college intge fall. Ones to be a Radioligist the other a Graphic Design.
Good to see that you're using this as a character-building opportunity.Thanks to everyone for the help. Im try to learn new tricks. Ill put a 12 hour anger to post restriction on myself in the future.
You'd think 17' would be plenty but I like your theory, maybe a picky stove in combination with warm outside temps... It averages 10 * warmer there than here, but I can burn at 50+ degrees on a rear-vented 16' stack since my stoves breath pretty easy, have small side-load doors and bypasses so smoke is less likely to roll out. If you think about it, having no bypass is like having couple of extra 90* elbows. Certainly 38's draft will improve as we get into the heart of the heating season and temps fall.It's possible that the Madison will turn out to be a stove needing a stronger draft that some
11:11pm- 487/508 stovetop, firebox has went black/all flames/secondaries gone, temps dropping, I reopen air all the way.
The weird part about it to me is that as mentioned up top, the fire always dies out after I cut air all the way the first time, then I reopen air and 1-2 mins later its engulfed, and I can shut the air down
When I shut my air, I always do it in stages: 100, 75, 50, 25%. If I shut it to 0% from full open, I can kill the secondaries, and get backpuffs. My stove is a different burn technology, but many do the same with other stoves, cutting back incrementally.
BTW, after 11:11 above, I didn't see where you shut the air back down. I assume just a minute or two later. Did I miss that somewhere, or did you?
This weekend ill stick a 4' section of pipe on top and see what happens.
Yes. I cleaned the pipe. Im sure it is a draft problem. I still stand by whst i said i sn earlier post. Englander knows how to built stoves and i dont think this one is any deferent.Has the current pipe and cap been cleaned? Please understand that if you have a bunch of gunk in there and you all of a sudden get things working correctly...you have a pipe full of fuel waiting to be lit off. You don't want that. It would be bad.
Contacted Englander this morning got to send em some pics tonite. Let there mathematicians figure out how much pipe i need to get proper draft
If you can post a pic of your overnite load.I just edited the post, yes, I closed the air again fully at 11:16. I have tried shutting the air incrementally like that, and it doesn't seem to matter. It always dies out the first time. Reopen air for a few minutes, then shut it again and it cruises good. (Sometimes I do have to re-crack the door instead of just opening air again)
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