Average cruising temps

I like 4-500 deg on the stove top. It varies alot.

I'm running full loads 3 times per day and the stove top usually tops out at about 600 then holds over 500 for about 2.5 hours then slowly drops off.

Cruising temp is around 525-550 stovetop.

Keystone is generally right on the 500 degree mark. Last night it set at 600ish for a long time with glowing logs, but no flames. Wonderful heat.

On the other hand, my son let the Englander 30 get up to about 625 and blasting out some serious heat - excercising for when the real cold hits.

Bill

my 30 likes to cruise at 450-550 for hours...

I have been running between 450-600 at the flue joint as I learn to control the fire better in my ancient Sierra.

Is this any concern?

bluedogz said:

I have been running between 450-600 at the flue joint as I learn to control the fire better in my ancient Sierra.

Is this any concern?

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that sounds like a good temp to me, but I am unfamiliar with your stove. What is it reading elsewhere on the top?

Remkel, X2

Still cruising at around 300,can't run hotter yet we'd have to open the windows.Run down into creosote making zone which i try to stay just above.Will be cleaning just after Christmas to check pipe.Run her up into hgh 4's once in awhile to clean glass but get's the room into the 90's fast so we don't keep it there long.Just cleaned upper chamber awhile ago.Had that creosote that looks like peeling paint chips and other that fell out of pipe that looked like the asphalt off of a roof shingle.

Danno77 said:

bluedogz said:

I have been running between 450-600 at the flue joint as I learn to control the fire better in my ancient Sierra.

Is this any concern?

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that sounds like a good temp to me, but I am unfamiliar with your stove. What is it reading elsewhere on the top?

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Dunno... will advise. I have focused on not letting it get TOO hot, so far.

500 stovetop, give or take 50 depending on how much fuel and air I give it. Once I get it where I want it (depending on how cold it is outside) it will stay there for hours.

The Vigilant: 450-650
Heritage: 500-600
Encore: 550-700

I like to let the stove run at 500-700 - puts out some very nice heat for 2-3 hours like that, then starts to slowly drop. However, more times than I care to remember this year (has been a bad year, I'm ashamed to admit), it's gotten over 900. Had some super dry poplar in the fall and then a bunch of small stuff. Both of those are a recipe for an overfire.

500-550 stove-top, But the steel around the connector and combuster will be much hotter when in downdraft.

Something else to think about. Your Fireview can get super high stove top temps like 600-700 with no flame at all just because the cat sits right under the lid and will gorge itself on the smoke and burn hot as hell. Other times you can have a good box fire with lots of flame and the stove top will only be around 500 or so but be putting out much more heat. Stove top temps don't always tell the whole story.

This time of year I try to not go much over 500 but is easy to reach 600. When it gets cold then we'll start off around 650-680 stove top.

Never really paid attention to the temp. Warm enough to keep teh house pretty hot.

pen said:

550-650 average. If it's cold, make that 650-750. If that's not enough, I'll take her up to 850 but not very often.

When the wife runs the stove, it's from 400 to 900+ :coolhmm:

pen

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850?? Thats crazy hot.

If it is dead of winter I cruise around 575 stove top temp.

Backwoods Savage said:

This time of year I try to not go much over 500 but is easy to reach 600. When it gets cold then we'll start off around 650-680 stove top.

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I thought it was cold in Mich. :lol:, 26 below wind chill this morning but wind was out of the NW so all is good. Cruise temp (with out fan) on summit is about 600, no matter what I do it always heads there give or take about 50 degrees.

It depends on the temps outside If its 20 or below ill let it run hotter like 600 in the 30s and up 400 to 600