How long is an overnight burn?

To me, an overnight burn is loading it up before I go to bed, usually around 11:00pm or so, and still having enough coals to re-light with when I get up in the morning. I'm usually up at round 7:00 or so, which would translate in to about 8 hours between reloads.

Typically not a problem for me, with a big stove.

-SF

How big is that firebox

LOL - here we go again...just like 'burntime'. And just like burn time, I don't give a cent if I could relight the fire after some time.

If I load up before I go to bed, sleep all night, and wake up warm - that would be a successful overnight burn. If I have to wake up and add wood, or wake up with the house freezing (even if I can spark come coals back to life) that's not an overnight burn in my book.

If you're not steaming wood, you won't need as much air and should get a longer burn.

I agree that it is a very subjective term - good marketing term though since there isn't a legal definition eh?

To me it has two useful meanings, you can pick which one you like better:

1) If I load before bed and have a stable burn, I wake up and find the stove still putting out useful heat

or

2) if I load before bed and have a stable burn, I wake up and find the stove with enough coals burning that I can re-start by only placing full splits on top (no kindling or lighting a match required).

In either case the length of time from bed to wake up of course is variable from person to person - in my case I put last load in around 9pm and get up at 6a so it is about 9 hours target to meet.

For #1 the debate can be "what is useful heat" - with my current stove I generally wake up with stovetop temp around 300 °F - great during shoulder season but virtually useless in my house when it is single digits outside.

My current stove will meet the definition of #2 with my current perhaps less than perfect wood for a good 10-11 hour sleep. My old stove was good for an afternoon nap - I only had two nights that it met definition #2 and never #1.

I stuff mine full, get it up to proper temp, close the bypas ......say 930-1030 pm. when I get up at 630 I will come down stairs and there will be a bed of coals.....depending on the weather it will be warm in the house and the heat won't have come on. My house is poorly insulated( I have need to fix that) and drafty. I used to get up around 430-5 to feed the stove but finally decided I was better of if I got a good night sleep.

An 'overnight burn' to me is eight hours with the stove still giving off usable heat, which for me is 350-400 degrees from the Vigilant.

I can only get overnight burns from the Intrepid if I cram it into a larger stove and set it on fire... (actually, me and the Intrepid are getting along a little better these days)

I loaded mine at 1 am, woke up nice and warm at 8am with alot of coals. I shut the fan off on my way out at 8:30, got home at 3:15pm and there was still enough coals in there to get her going without having to use a supercedar....just some small, dry kindling layed crisscross style and a few really small splits with the door cracked for 5-10min. I love this insert.

I load my Hampton at 11 pm and get up at 5. I mix up the coals and load it again. Within a half hour i have a good fire.

i think most would agree it is when you load it before bed and have a remnant of wood still going or atleast enough coals to start a new fire when you wake the following morning ,if you have to light a match to start it again ,then you did not get an overnight burn
you do not pass go ..and you do not collect 200 dollars

Getting an overnight burn is the reason I wanted the Blaze King, I usually load it up at 12:30-1 and set it at the second dot and hit the hay, I get up at 7:30 and still have wood left to burn, I turn the tstat up and turn the fan up to warm up and after an hour I load it up for the day.

I like to sleep for 7 to 8hrs so being able to reload after that is an overnight burn for me. The I300 has a 2.3 cu. ft firebox so I think you should do better than 6 hrs unless you are burning softwood.

My stove is a medium sized stove(2.2 cu. ft firebox I believe) and for me if I load at 10ish with hardwood I'll have plenty of coals for a quick reload of full sized splits at 6 or 7 in the morning. On the weekends I get up around 8 or 9 with plenty of coals for a quick restart although the heat will run some. The heat coming from the stove isn't usuable but when I get the last load of the night settled in the house temp is usually 74-76, when I wake up it's usually hovering around 70. This is all that I was looking for out of a stove the size of mine.

lexybird said:

i think most would agree it is when you load it before bed and have a remnant of wood still going or atleast enough coals to start a new fire when you wake the following morning ,if you have to light a match to start it again ,then you did not get an overnight burn
you do not pass go ..and you do not collect 200 dollars

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When I first started burning my definition of an over-night burn (and thinking based on what I read in all of the stove brochures) was that I could load up the stove when I went to bed (around 10 p.m.) and wake up at 6 or so and still find flames in the firebox . . . foolish me . . . not going to happen with a non-cat stove . . . and especially not going to happen when it's zero degrees outside and the wind is howling.

Nowadays I consider an over-night burn just like Lexy . . . I load up the stove a little bit before I turn in and if things go as planned there should be coals when I wake up around 5 or 6 a.m. -- 6-8 hours later. Typically the stove is still putting out some heat . . . although it may not be really high temps . . . early and late in the season the temp in the house is fine . . . this time of year the temps have dropped to around 60-62 degrees and on some particularly cold and windy mornings the oil boiler may kick on once or twice before I get up.

Sometimes when I get up I find a nice bed of coals or a fire with some nice secondaries going . . . however this is not the stove and a wicked long burn-time . . . this is typically my wife waking up at some point in the night and when she is up she loads up the stove . . . and sometimes it works the other way around . . . I wake up to go to the bathroom and may add some wood to the stove to keep the heat up.

Berone said:

How long is an overnight burn?

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Is this a trick question?