5 Degrees with my Wiseway Stove

It got down to 5 degrees overnight. When I got up at 6 am the Wiseway was burning comfortably at 550 degrees and the temperatures in the house ranged from the mid 70's in the living room to mid 60's in the far reaches (not really that far in our 175 year old converted trappers cabin). This stove is amazing. In conjunction with the Okie DF pellets, performance exceeds my expectations.

AND, the stove has been burning, non stop, for five days now. With each day I'd ask my wife if we should shut the stove down for a good clean out. It's been burning so clean we kept putting it off. The primary burn chamber moves freely so there is no creosote build up, the amount of ash from the DF is ridiculously low and keeping the temps up around 550-600 has been easy. So, we'll go another day without shutting it down.

On top of that I bought an Ecofan 812 to help with spreading out the heat more efficiently. It arrives on Thursday. I have a feeling one will be enough but if I have to, I'll install another.

Cory S said:

Guessing it's consuming a serious amount of fuel also. Maintaining 550* takes a lot of pellets.

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I get about 16-18 hours out of a bag of Okie Doug Fir, burning at those temps. I get a little more (18-20 hours) out of a bag of Platinums (spruce) but temps are in the 400-475 range.

bogieb said:

I have always wondered about that stove - thanks for sharing your experience.

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The keys to my success with this stove were using softwood pellets and treating the stove like a traditional woodstove that burned pellets. Yes, it requires a little more tending than a typical pellet stove (all though after reading many of the posts on this board I've begun wondering) but it's far less demanding than my Hearthstone woodstove.

bioman said:

Sounds like you got it dialed in !

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It was either get this stove sorted or use electric. We are thrilled it's worked out as well as it has. When we first began thinking about the Wiseway we were concerned that there seemed to be as many negative posts as positive. We made sure we would have access to good softwood pellets and took to heart the need for establishing a strong draft. There are a couple of bends in our venting but they are 45 degrees so as not to inhibit draft too much. We even have a vacu stack to prevent down drafts, a real problem with the way our house is located on the inside rim of a hollow.