It's an affectionate reference to Roospike's Summit from the very early days. Mechanic's stove just raised the bar.Sorry, I've resisted long enough, and just bored enough to ask: How does one recognize "whorehouse red" as a distinct color and how did you recognize it as such so quickly? I won't tell.
Really, you should have seen that one coming
I hope it is steam. I don't see any creosote signs. But what alerted me was the OP's mention that his older stove had no emissions like that, just warm air waves. I figured that in the same climate, any stove would look about the same in the same weather, but that varies of course. Pretty darn nice stove.
Well, that explains a lot. Pretty cool name for a color. I'll have to keep it in mind...and away from the wife, of course.
running stove at full pop, full air supply.
What type thermometer is it? I don't remember if your flue is single wall or double. Make sure your get the proper type. If double wall, you need a probe type from Condar. If single wall, a magnetic type is okay.
I have both types, one magnetic for the stove top and a probe for the double walled pipe.
Thanks for the compliment, love the stove, it really has consistent heat without having to load it every few hours.
Then your wood supply prob isn't ready, re-split a whole bunch of pieces into smaller ones and stack about 4ft away from stove and let them dry out, do like 2 days worth and keep rotating as you load the stove.
Guys, I went and got a new reliable stack thermometer.
From your description, I'm assuming this is a probe thermometer, not a surface thermometer, right? The 600 you mentioned before is high enough to prevent creo deposits, but 200 on the new meter is already below condensation temp. Without a window you can't see what the secondary is doing so I would try running a little hotter..while still keeping the stovetop temp under the recommended maximum, that is.
What he said. 200 internally is way to cool. You need to get it up in the burn zone of 325-400 and be at least 24" above the stove. If you can't shut down to clean I'd start out slowly with small hot fires around 300 to dry stuff out over a period of a few days and slowly increase your temps. Best idea would be to clean out and start over. Check your moisture content of your wood too.
Just reading the manual, and because this stove works on a different principal, the internal stack ideal temp is 150-200 it is saying.
yes, internal probe, page 21 of the manual talks about 150-200 degrees in the stack.
Hmmm, maybe this stove is very efficient at extracting heat before the exhaust leaves the box..?
