Internal temperatures

[Bill]

Is there a formula for estimating the internal temperature of the stove box? Lets say your stove top is 500 degrees, the chimney is 800 degrees, what would you estimate the internal temperature?

 

[burntime]

Hot

 

[Todd]

If you have secondary combustion going on you know it should be over 1000 degrees in there.

 

[tutu_sue]

I forget where I heard it's about double surface temp.

 

[backpack09]

Hot enough to keep hair off your hand for the entire winter.

 

[Corie]

Its a combination of a lot of things- You could get easily find the inner surface temperature of the metal, but finding that temperature of the gas in the firebox would be a bit tougher. The easiest way to find out would be to measure it as any heat transfer calculation would have some error included in it.