FIREFIGHTER29 said:trump said:FIREFIGHTER29 said:Thats interesting that you bring that up Murry. Now that I have had some good cold weather and some time to really play with this stove, I have found that it will actually go in and out of afterburn throughout the burn cycle. I have found that sometimes I will load it up as normal get the after burn going and in about a half hour time it will stall. Then if I let it go, in time it will kick itself back in and continue to burn as normal. It may do this several times a cycle. The times I gave are not solid, it may burn in afterburn for an hour or two before going out. But my stove will go in and out of afterburn on its own.
Iv had time to get back to my TL-300 and the first thing i did was build a little tunnel out of firewood so i have a clear view of the AF chamber. Now that i can see whats going on it is much simpler to get a good afterburn. WHen there is a lot of new wood in the stove(hence a lot of smoke) each of the AF air holes looks like a little blow torch with a flame shooting out about 2-3 inches. later when the wood burns down
some, the whole AF glows cherry red even on the lowest air setting.And the lower air setting seems to increase AF activity However i still have smoke (or perhaps its steam) coming from my chimney even when i am positive my AF is lit. If i try to engage the AF too soon it will start only for a minute or 2 and then go out. also i get no sound (that i can hear) when in AF. But then again the fan might be drowning out the sound. Either way this is the way to burn wood ,any other way except a cat stove is a waste of wood and all the BTU,s that it can produce.
, I would say that 90% of the time I get little to no sound at all from the afterburn. The only time I get the "jet engine" sound is when my coal bed is at least half the way up the afterburn throat in the back of the fire box. Sometimes it scares the $hit out of me when I kick it in lol. The one thing that is a for sure with my stove is I get a ticking sound (like what any stove makes when its heating or cooling) coming from my stove. But I can tell from the fast frequency and pitch of the ticking sound that the afterburn is working. And sure enough if I would look, no smoke. So after a point in time I would not waste my time and freeze myself to look. And to this point I must be doing something correct due to the lack of creosote and the awesome wood lasting potential I can reach.
I finally heard the AB sound your talking about after turning the fan off, sounds like air rushing in the back of the stove, but disapears after a few minutes, and reappears when you turn the air setting back up.