I burned for the 3rd time this am with around 8 1 to 1.5 inch kindling lots of paper and around 4 or 5 2 plus inch splits. It drafts well so shut down to around 1 and a half to 2 after about fifteen min. This time there was never really any smoke outside even without combuster. Around an houur later it got up to around 220 or so stove top. I had just some wood left and engaged the combuster. Unfortunately I was down to big coal soon after as my wood ran out. Question is how do I know if my combuster in limited time, worked? There was no red glow anywhere but stove temp did go down some and although hard to tell but seems like stove temp went up a little faster and no smoke outside still. Right now with stove out stove temp over 270. And do I leave the combuster in engage now until I make the next fire.
In general does all this make sense to the folks having this stove?
Thanks in advance,
Pat( aka Sappy)
In general does all this make sense to the folks having this stove?
Thanks in advance,
Pat( aka Sappy)