Hearthstone 8492 too much draft?

[Andrew V]

Moved into a new house and had an 8492 installed. 23’ insulated liner, wood moisture 10-12 white ash.

My old stove was the alderlea t5 so going to this cat stove was a little bit of a curve.

What I’m running into is I feel that draft may be too good and when I go to shut the air control down it does engage the secondaries but the front port doesn’t seem to slow down. I’ll try and attach a video.

This was installed on Wednesday this week and I have been reading a lot and have the cat side of things figured out

 

[Andrew V]

Found out I have the open port on top….

 

[Scott from Akron]

Hard to tell from that video. I'll have to check mine, when it's cooking, to see the difference between full open and shut down all the way.

 

[Narsil487]

If that hole in top isn't plugged with an Allen screw, that's the same problem I had. Luckily I found my screw sitting inside the box stuck in a crevice. Contact your vendor and tell them you need Hearthstone to send you a new one. Agree with Scott that it's hard to tell, but I've seen mine blow pretty good like that even with the air control closed down. But if your cat temp isn't coming down then you may have a problem, which is likely related to the open port. Also, I found that my cat probe was all over the place for the first couple of weeks.

 

[Andrew V]

If that hole in top isn't plugged with an Allen screw, that's the same problem I had. Luckily I found my screw sitting inside the box stuck in a crevice. Contact your vendor and tell them you need Hearthstone to send you a new one. Agree with Scott that it's hard to tell, but I've seen mine blow pretty good like that even with the air control closed down. But if your cat temp isn't coming down then you may have a problem, which is likely related to the open port. Also, I found that my cat probe was all over the place for the first couple of weeks.

Thanks, I ran to Lowe’s and got a set screw 5/16-18 that fit. It seems to be running a little better with the screw in there now. Car temps have been good.

 

[Narsil487]

Good idea! Glad it's acting better