I haven't overfired in my new Lopi Freedom --- my wood is all scrounged, and I really don't think I COULD achieve a temperature of over 600 degrees!
But if someday something bad happens, what do I do? If I come back to my insert and see it glowing red, and the temp gauge at 950+ ......... what is the best way to deal with this?
Obviously I would choke down the air inlet, but has anyone had to do something more? Open the glass door and pour water on the fire? Drizzle water on the top of the stove to evaporate heat? Add a huge cold log to take heat out of the fireplace?
What would be the best course if choking off the air inlet didn't work?
PS In medicine, every now and then we get and old person with hyperthermia they die with temps of 106-107---- usually on the hottest day of the year and she/he doesn't have air conditioning and has a disability where he can't get to water easily to drink. We use cooling blankets, we infuse cold IV fluids, sometimes we make a hole in the abdomen and pour in cold saline and suck it out warm ..... but we've found the most effective way to cool off a hot person is quite low-tech...... strip them naked, squirt cool water them on from a kitchen squirt bottle, with a fan blowing on them. Simple. Saves lives.
But if someday something bad happens, what do I do? If I come back to my insert and see it glowing red, and the temp gauge at 950+ ......... what is the best way to deal with this?
Obviously I would choke down the air inlet, but has anyone had to do something more? Open the glass door and pour water on the fire? Drizzle water on the top of the stove to evaporate heat? Add a huge cold log to take heat out of the fireplace?
What would be the best course if choking off the air inlet didn't work?
PS In medicine, every now and then we get and old person with hyperthermia they die with temps of 106-107---- usually on the hottest day of the year and she/he doesn't have air conditioning and has a disability where he can't get to water easily to drink. We use cooling blankets, we infuse cold IV fluids, sometimes we make a hole in the abdomen and pour in cold saline and suck it out warm ..... but we've found the most effective way to cool off a hot person is quite low-tech...... strip them naked, squirt cool water them on from a kitchen squirt bottle, with a fan blowing on them. Simple. Saves lives.