overfire

Suggestion . . . don't fall asleep.

If you're looking for reassurance that everything is probably OK . . . chances are everything is probably OK. Just check over the stove, flue and chimney . . . and learn from the mistake . . . as many of us have done so in the past.

mike821

I have done the exact same thing, woke up and said holy sh!&. Turn the damper all the way down, turn the blower oh HIGH and I even put a floor fan on it to try and disipate heat.
Scary isnt it!!

Glad everything turned out ok

Meth!

I suggest an alarm of some type. I KNOW I'll fall asleep on the couch waiting to dial down the stove after filling it at ~ 11pm or so. So, I set my cell phone alarm for 10-15 minutes after I load the stove. After that, I just keep hitting 'snooze' - which gives me about a 5 min interval between each alarm - this is often perfect for the complete cycle of dialing down the stove. I usually even fall asleep between each snooze. I do this routine because I've done what you did and I'm not a fan of repeating that again! Cheers!

I did that just the other night,too!! A little scary,......and pissed me off that I wasted that whole load of wood!!

I runtinely run my Lopi Endeavor North of 700* when the merc goes south of about 5*, have since install in '99 only thing I had to do was change the air tubes to the stainless steel tubes from the Liberty...burning that nasty ol PNW pine tooooo...

Mike, I also doubt that you did any harm to the stove but it still bears checking to make sure. The good thing is it taught you a lesson you are not going to forget for some time; probably never.

This seems to continually recurring problem, walking away from the stove with the door cracked open, leaving the air open too long, then the stove gets too hot. :ahhh:

This is the solution I came up with, not exactly cheap but quite effective.

Some of you may have seen some posts of the previous version of stove temp monitor/alarm but this is the latest one. I am quite happy with the way it works.

It uses a controller connected to a flashing read peizo warning buzzer. It has a magnetic mount thermocouple that simply mounts on the top of the stove. It can also be fitted withe a thermocouple probe to measure flue temp.

When stove top temp exceeds the alarm set temp the alarm will sound, the alarm will stop when the stove temp cools to below the set temp, or you can press the silence button which will quite the alarm.
The alarm will automatically reset when stove temp cools below the alarm set temp.

Here is a video of the temp monitor /alarm in action. In the video the alarm temp is set to 500*,
I usually have it set to 650*.

You can PM me if you want more info.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMeH_VNncQs

I have a ashley automatic that aotomaticly closes the air off if it gets to hot ,but I've still had it to 700 F

My Endeavor see's north of 700 on a regular basis when it's single digit cold. I don't start to worry till it's 750+ with the air shut down and still raging. Lopi says 800 is overfire so I'm sure you're ok as long as you caught it at the high spot.

My dad has an old (at least 28 years) flu gas alarm. It runs on a 9V battery, analog gauge, adjustable for the alarm temperature, probe that goes in the stack, very loud very annoying buzzing. I'd buy one if I could find one.

Mine has been up to 750 several times and I was not worried much. The manual says 840 is overfiring.