Leaving the house with Insert Burning

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Wow thanks for all that great information, I never in my life thought I was going to say this but I am...............I can't wait for winter to come so I can burn that stove. Only burned it a few times overnight, with the low temp at night in the low 40's I had my downstairs man-cave at 80 degrees, upstairs living room at 75 and bedrooms at 68 and that's with turning the stove down a bit when it almost cooked me downstairs, it works great and can't wait for it to pay for itself considering I always used electric heat.
 
stejus said:
Your Regency should look similar to this. Put the thermostat in the area where the blower exits the warm air. Place it towards the front. You willl need a flashlight to read it.

I also attached a picture of the secondaries burning. Once these fire up, the fire will be shooting out of the tubes. If you don't see this read the next paragraph.

If you are closing it down and your secondaries are not burning, you either closed the air supply too quickly or your wood is not dry enough. The draft (air) can be closed all the way to about 1/2" closed if you are using the blower. If no blower, it can be closed completely. Remember, when you are closing the draft, do this in steps over a 1/2 hour period. If you get it going and slamb it down, you will choke it for sure.
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Great description and pictures. Like he said you need to watch the secondaries. When they start going good, then you can damp it down. I'm pretty sure that on any EPA stove, you can damp it down all the way and it will be fine at that point, from what I understand EPA stoves never fully shutoff the combustion air even when damped all the way down. At least that is how my PE is.
 
I have the same stove. I don't have a thermometer on mine, but do shut it all the way down and still get enough combustion to eliminate smoke. Dry wood is key, of course. Shutting it down in stages helps as well. Get it ripping, shut halfway, let it catch up, shut to 3/4 etc.

edit- keep the blower on when it gets warm- this makes it a LOT more efficient and reduces the chance of overfire.
 
Huskyforlife said:
I'm pretty sure that on any EPA stove, you can damp it down all the way and it will be fine at that point, from what I understand EPA stoves never fully shutoff the combustion air even when damped all the way down. At least that is how my PE is.
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I wouldn't say any EPA stove can be shut down completly. The goal of the EPA is to not let the stoves smolder a fire but depending on the type of wood(type, m/c, split size etc) and flue set up you can still smolder a fire in an EPA stove. Many people have posted here that if they close down all the way they'll smolder the fire and get smoke out of the chimney. Every install will perform different, that's the fun part of learning a new stove. :)
 
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