Exploding Harman Oakwood?

Troutchaser said:

Do as BBurner stated. Get a pile of coals in that thing before you think about afterburning.
Have you watched Harman's website videos? Great stuff for learning your stove.
Last night, I burned about 40 minutes before I could close the bypass and reduce the air to about 1/4 open. Just takes that long to get some coals and flaming splits on that.

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Wow. Have I learned a lot in the past few days. Yes. I have watched the Harman Videos. And watched them again, and again and again. And what I was missing was a good hot bed of coals. That seems to be the key to this wood burning stuff. You see, I replaced a nice Harman XXV pellet stove with this new Harman Oakwood, just because I love the big blast of radient heat you get from a wood stove, so this is all so new to me. I still have the pellet ,.....I put it in the basement, but there is just no duplicating the old wood stove heat. I am burning Envi Blocks as opposed to traditional firewood, otherwise I would not have considered the wood stove and they are awesome.

But I still have one more question. When I get this thing ripping hot enough to induce a secondary burn, and I then damper it way down and choke it, I will go 12 -16 hours in some cases. But I dont think that the fire rips hot enough for the secondary combustion to take place fot yhr entire 12-16 hours. Is there some point as the fire idles down that the afterburner is not actually working? And is this normal? Probally sounds like a silly question, but remember, I'm pretty new here. Thoughts?

Oops, double post. This forum is also new to me