This has happened to us twice now. We need to heat up our stove so the top is approx 400-500 degrees before trying to engage AB. Last night, no matter what air setting we used, the flames flew up the open damper, heating the flue to super high temps (and the stove top was not even 300 degrees). We have double insulated stove pipe and it started to smoke (just paint fumes but stinky nonetheless). No matter what we did, the flames/heat went up the chimney and wouldn't heat the stove. I tried to rearrange the wood, thinking that was the problem, but it didn't do any good. I tried the low air setting with no luck. We simply could not get the stove hot enough to engage AB. This morning, no issues whatsoever.
Are there any "tricks" to getting the wood to burn more evenly, without all the flames shooting up the flue, while AB is not engaged? Is there something we might be doing wrong to cause this kind of problem?
Are there any "tricks" to getting the wood to burn more evenly, without all the flames shooting up the flue, while AB is not engaged? Is there something we might be doing wrong to cause this kind of problem?