Efel Arden Stove Questions

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Crabbypatty

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Nov 22, 2008
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Western MA
A friend of mine just recently bought a house and wants to heat the basement with a wood stove. He purchased a used efel arden stove and talked me into fluing it for him. I flued it yesterday into an existing fireplace. I removed the damper assembly and fabricated a block off plate. We cleaned and inspected the chimmney before we installed the flue pipe. We finished up and started a celebratory fire. I have never run a stove quite like this and I am used to a vermont castings defiant which iI grew up running, and now my encore which I heat my home with, at least on weekends.
It doesn't have a damper, yet it is gasketed like an airtite stove. It does have a air intake control to regulate the burn. It can be used with coal or wood.

My questions are, so far:
Does anyone have one of these stoves and can you give me any tips as to how to run it.
The previous owner gave him the old flue pipe and i was suprised to see it had a barometric damper in the pipe, we installed new pipe and no barometric, does it need one?
Should I install a damper in the flue pipe to keep some heat from going up the chimmney?

Thanks in advance!
 
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I assume this stove is very similar to my old wonderwood, except it is cast iron instead of sheet metal.

From what I understand a barometric damper is nessisarry for coal, but not wood, am I correct?
 
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