Pleasant hearth - medium sized wood stove

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toyarmy

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Dec 8, 2010
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louisville, ky
I'll start by saying we have this stove in our 900ish sq. ft. bungalow.

With some help from this forum, we've managed to keep our house fairly comfortable, at least the main areas.

Recently we finally purchased a magnetic thermometer, but we have dvl? (double wall) pipe. Granted, the thermometer is by another stove manufacturer (Morso), it says to install it on the pipe, of course this doesn't apply/work for us.
Based on a few quick search's we put it on the lip. This typically gives us a temp a little over 300 when going good. When placed on the "step" of the top of the stove, it's just over 500. I can't seem to figure out if these are good temps at these locations for our setup.

As for the damper... There's a sticker by the right hand side that says only leave it fully open for first 5 minutes. So once we see a nice secondary burn we tend to go ahead and close it all the way down to the second little.. step? (it's like ___------------ so the ___ part) but the right most part of that (does this make sense? I can take a picture if need be.) Then, if we get a really nice hot fire (or what seems like one... which is seldom) we close it down to the left hand side of that. Is this right?

While I feel like it's performing much better than originally, I still feel like we're missing something. Is it just because we got the stupid cheap stove? Or what? Hopefully we can afford to invest in a much nicer one by next winter, but this one has to do the job for now.
 
Try changing the title of your thread to include "Pleasant Hearth medium-size woodstove", or reposting with new title. (As to thermometer location, looks to me like in front of the flue opening, on the lower "step", would give the most accurate reading).
 
Test during a burn by moving the thermo every once in a while to find the hottest place on the stove top. Usually it is in front of the flue collar a few inches.

Five hundred to six hundred is a good burning range on stove top temps on a steel stove. It will probably burn a little hotter until a new load settles down.
 
I usually have mine closer to 1/2 open on the upper step, but if it's really burning I'll bump it down. If I'm not getting a good burn I'll open it up all the way if I have to. As for temps I pretty regularly run mine at 600+ deg in the center of the upper step, which usually yields more like 550-600 closer to the sides of the top. But basically I'll run mine as hot as I think I can without making it glow. There's no temp referances in the manual so that's about all I have to go off of.
 
i have the same stove , the sooner you can move air lever to left without killing the flames is your goal, that is when you
get best secondary burn, i have been very happy with stove , wish it were a little bigger, i had mine run away with too many
small splits stove went to 775 with no ill effects or glowing parts, normal temp on stove top is 450 to 475, when you take it
to 600 it really puts out the heat but wastes wood to do so.
 
That's a good looking stove...well, except for the ash lip - too much there...dang, I'd fry eggs on that puppy. Learn the nuances of this stove - you may come to love it. I bet when you get it cranking, it'll be enough heat in 900sf (unless no insulation).
 
Toy,

I have the same stove, and I operate it almost the same way you do, except that I hardly ever move the damper knob all the way to the left during the day. That's where I will set it for an overnight burn. My stove seems to coast along when the knob is to the far right of the little valley. Some of my wood isn't the best, and I will set it up on "Choctaw Ridge" to burn better, but I feel I'm losing heat up the flue when I do that.

I really like my stove; I don't like where I put it (in the basement). I am either moving it upstairs or getting another stove for upstairs.


Nancy
 
That stove is rated for 1800 sq. ft. and should easily heat your home...

Ray
 
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