Smoking secondary chamber

[huffdawg]

I'm getting lots of smoke out my secondary door when I open it to look at gasification . Also quite a bit of smoke out the chimney. I moved the turbulator handle prior to starting fire. I thinking there must be a bunch of fly ash in the bottom of the turbs.

Huff

 

[taxidermist]

do you have a bed of coals over the nozzles when you do this?


Rob

 

[NNYorker]

I'm assuming you are not gassifying at that time, like Taxidermist asks about the bed of coals, gasses forced thru the bed of coals give you the white/blue flame with a nice roar with virtually no smoke. When gassifying I can hear a roar inside my unit. Nozzle could be plugged with charcoal (coals not yet matured to red hot gassers :coolgrin: ) or most likely a combo of ash and charcoal. Check the nozzle in the upper chamber.

 

[huffdawg]

Yup ,you guys were bang on. I guess I loaded the wood in too tight must of been a chunk blocking the the jet off. working fine now . Whats your fan set at Rob.

Set my mine to 50% and my secondaries at 4.5 turns. seems to gasify with a better blue flame . I was reading more on the Fine tuning stickey so I started playing. maybe burn the wood a little slower


Huff

 

[taxidermist]

I always start mine on 100% as I get a nice bed of coals I turn it to 50% so I dont wash the coals away from the rear nozzle so fast.


Rob