kochis said:dpgoalie-Have you called the Woodstock folks and brought this to their attention?
No. I was going to wait for it to happen again and try bypassing the cat and turning the air up a bit.
kochis said:dpgoalie-Have you called the Woodstock folks and brought this to their attention?
dpgoalie said:Being new to Cat stoves, sounds like I should have tried to open the air a bit to cool the secondary burn, but I'm not sure. I will try this if the problem happens again.
dpgoalie said:kochis said:Have you completed your break-in yet. How is your stove running?
I decided to upgrade from my Keystone mostly because of the larger firebox. The Keystone worked great except that loading up at night was like a jigsaw puzzle trying to match the wood pieces so that I could fit the max amount of wood in there. Have you been able to throttle your stove way down in order to have just low heat on the days when its not that cold outside. How does it work at the low settings. When I was at the open house, they had the stove running but at a higher temperature to show the nicer appearance of the flames and to keep the glass clean, but we all know that we don't always use our stoves like that.
II have completed the break in. The stove is running great. I have no complaints at this point. However, I loaded the stove up with large splits of dry maple this morning, and when I dampered it down the stove top temps kept rising. I shut the damper completely and in about 45 minutes, the temp went from 500 to 610 and stabilized there. I didn't know how high it was going to climb and I didn't like that the temps didn't drop when I shut the damper. And yes, I tried both burning with the cat and without and the temp wouldn't drop. I hope I don't have to add a stove pipe damper. They are ugly and it's just another thing to operate.
Si when there is a piece or 2 in there the low setting works great, but closing the damper completely didn't do much with it packed.
Todd said:I suppose when you cut off the cat with the bypass the secondary combustion is still kickin and since the exhaust path is forward in the stove instead of the rear straight up the pipe like the other Woodstocks it will still throw the heat. Probably take a little while to fine tune this beast. I hope it doesn't turn out to be too non catish where it likes to burn hot and is less controllable than a true cat stove.
kochis said:DP
How are things going with the Progress?
Are you able to keep the temps under control with a full load of wood?
Backwoods Savage said:I wouldn't do that. Why waste wood? It is like opening up your wallet the next time you are in town and just throwing a $5.00 bill on the sidewalk. Save the wood for when you need it.
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