How HOT is the air coming out of Your stove???

My Bosca's have 4 settings and on setting number 3 I get between 250° and 290°. On the highest setting I can get up to 320°. All of this is pellet dependent of course.

The hottest pellets I've used are Westwood Premiums and Armstrong SPF.

Hot enough to nearly roast my Jack Russell

-Soupy1957

right now 150, it is -11 out side

Its -12 here, stove air 180 indoor temp is 72

Depends where you measure the temp...and what you use to measure. These 2 factors will skew the readings between users by at least +/- 25 degrees...

Have a quick-read long stem oven thermometer stuck into one of heat exchanger tubes,
Enviro Mini, 5 settings. Lowest setting, 160-180 degrees, level 3 200-220. Usually burn
Golden Fire or America's Best (both Bear Mountain products) but picked up a bunch of
Hot Shots in nifty 25lb sacks. More ash, more fines and ash clogging in the corners of the little burn
pot. Also much cooler, 140-160 degrees on level 1, 180-200 on level 3. Levels 4 & 5 go past the
scale, looks like maybe 230-250 with Golden Fire.

~350° using a low mass K type thermocouple in the air flow with the stove on medium burn and medium blower

Traditions II (T300-P)
Lignetics pellets

Aaron

Englander 25-PDV

Low end I read about 170.

On high, I've seen as high as 250. It's really cranking at that point though.

Depends on which exchanger tube output I place the thermocouple into.

When burning hot...high feed rate and convection blower maxed out.
I get 195-240 F

Normal burn
150-200 F

It really depends on where you place your sensor. All measurements are relative to your use.

Best thing you can do is to measure at the same exact spot each time to get a feel for how you are burning.

Lot of variables go into a stoves heat output.

Just ask Jay. He has been measuring and recording for as long as I have been a member here.

---Nailer---

On the second lowest setting its between 98 (on the left side) and 138 deg f (on the right side). I've always noticed a lateral difference between both ends of the convection tubes.

I don't run the stove too much as its supplemental heat, but the best I've come across thus far are "Hardwood Heat" from TSC. Currently running some TSC pellet from Maine.. not nearly as good.

After having done a lot of experimenting in an attempt to wring more heat out of my stoves' heat exchangers and letting less go up the flue https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/64123/ and https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/70161/
you can see what I found. Many of these super high temperatures being posted here have me very skeptical of the measuring methods. If you just stick a meat thermometer into the tube, you're most likely measuring the temperature of the metal tube as someone above pointed out. That is also where the stagnant layer of air is insulating the probe. If you look at my readings, you will also see that some tubes have very, very little flow of air in them which will give the air a lot more time to pick up heat. As nailer said, it REALLY depends on where you put your probe. If you aren't hanging it in front of the tube with NO contact to the stove, you are kidding yourself about air exit temperature. Emmelch1 said his stack temperature was very hot so he's losing all his BTU'S up the flue in his possibly overfired condition and his efficiency is even worse than these stove's normal lousy efficiency.
Don't kid yourself about temps. Whatever your method, keep it consistent and at least you can tell if one type of pellet is better than another IF you keep all flame height, blower speed, and cleanliness the same.

I have a digital thermometer with a type K thermocouple permanently mounted on top of the stove.. The thermocouple is in the far left hand heat exchanger tube. It's in about 3 inches. Normally it runs around 120 on low, 180 on 2, 250 on 3, 320 on 4, and I haven't run it much on 5. I took some pictures of my temperature monitor and posted them back a year or so ago. When I get a chance, I'll find them and post them.

Chan

DAKSY said:

Interesting. Lower temps than I would've thought...
We put a Condar magnetic thermometer on our showroom P61 -
IN FRONT of the distribution air holes & got a reading of 465 degrees.
I realize that reading was the temperature of the stove body AND the hot air...
With an IR, the stove TOP temp was at 277... which was about a 190 degree drop...
Just for sh*ts & giggles, I scraped the accordion heat exchanger & the Condar thermo
jumped up to over 500 degrees. While none of this is exactly a "scientific test,"
we were amazed at the jump in temperature after a 30 second scrape job...

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From my experiments, flame height can easily jump temperatures 30 degrees if you have the usual high flame at start up; however, if the flame height was allowed to come back down to what it was before the cleaning and you waited about 1/2 hour, then that is very impressive.

IR - 310 to 325. After a good cleaning - 350 - 375

mhagerty said:

IR - 310 to 325. After a good cleaning - 350 - 375

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If you are using IR, then you are measuring metal temperature which is not air temperature and, if you look at my data, you will see that the air temp is really dependent on how it travels along the tube.

CWR said:

I have a digital thermometer with a type K thermocouple permanently mounted on top of the stove.. The thermocouple is in the far left hand heat exchanger tube. It's in about 3 inches. Normally it runs around 120 on low, 180 on 2, 250 on 3, 320 on 4, and I haven't run it much on 5. I took some pictures of my temperature monitor and posted them back a year or so ago. When I get a chance, I'll find them and post them.

Chan

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Also, if you look at my data, the outer two tubes on my Quads have little or no airflow. I would recommend that you move the probe into the center tubes for a better feel for how hot MOST of your air is. I'd be interested in what you find. My guess is that the temps will be lower because the air is moving faster. I'm not familiar with your stove so I don't know what your settings 1-4 mean.

Hello

I asked a similar question about the pellet stove's Top End for heat output.

Interesting responses.
https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/52626/

lbcynya said:

Depends where you measure the temp...and what you use to measure. These 2 factors will skew the readings between users by at least +/- 25 degrees...

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I hate to rant here but if you decide to write the above, finish the post. If you say depends and 2 factors, give them. Then since you are posting in a forum thread on temps, give those too. If not, don't post and take up room.

I have a PF100 and I see 110 - 120 with 2000 cfm blower

dmaclaren said:

lbcynya said:

Depends where you measure the temp...and what you use to measure. These 2 factors will skew the readings between users by at least +/- 25 degrees...

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I hate to rant here but if you decide to write the above, finish the post. If you say depends and 2 factors, give them. Then since you are posting in a forum thread on temps, give those too. If not, don't post and take up room.

I have a PF100 and I see 110 - 120 with 2000 cfm blower

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Uh, he did give two factors > 'where' and 'what'................... He also gave his 'opinion', which he is free to do, of +- 25 degrees. since he made the statements, I assume that he does not feel that one person's readings are relevant to another person's. I agree and, I hate to rant, but this whole thread was pretty useless for those very reasons.

It's tough for me to measure the air coming directly out of my Fahrenheit furnace because it goes through about 14' or so of 10" to 8" ducting before being blown out into my great room. I'd estimate the air coming out of the 12x20" heat registers is somewhere around 115°F, but I haven't used an IR temp gauge to get a more accurate reading.

ChrisWNY said:

It's tough for me to measure the air coming directly out of my Fahrenheit furnace because it goes through about 14' or so of 10" to 8" ducting before being blown out into my great room. I'd estimate the air coming out of the 12x20" heat registers is somewhere around 115°F, but I haven't used an IR temp gauge to get a more accurate reading.

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That's some good heat How many bags a day do you use up there in NY?

If you use an IR gun, be aware of this "Make sure that you are aiming the gun at a surface, be that a floor, wall or whatever you choose, at your target distance. No temperature gun measures ambient air temperature well and you will need to point the gun at a surface so that it can measure the reflected temperature."

http://www.ehow.com/how_7605286_read-gun-ten-feet-away.html

Dunno and don't really care.
It's 76F in here and I'm comfy so that's all I care about.
Have fun with your test results tho!

Our Whitfield Advantage WP2 on low (normal setting for us) runs about 150F

The Prodigy II will run about 170F but less volume of air.

I prefer to keep the stove temp down at a lower level and if I need more heat, just fire up the second stove.

Snowy