Summit YouTube Clip

[Battenkiller]

What's going on here? Is that much smoke normal with this stove at startup? Wood in the box seems to be burning OK, fire's not choked down. There's plenty of active flame with no coals, so wood must be dry enough. How long will it burn this way before the secondaries kick in? Just curious.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWrhm0Zii4k&feature=related

 

[begreen]

Looks like it's in a garage with bicycles and flamables near by. I'm guessing it's a short stack, fire just started, probably with some partially dried wood on top of dry kindling. Given the way things look, maybe the baffle isn't even in?

I like this one better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR4aFg-F0mY&NR=1

 

[Battenkiller]

Ya, that's a lot better, but that's a clip of a well-established fire. I was a bit startled to see so much smoke come out of a startup fire. Every stove seems to smoke a bit when you first load it or start a fire in a cold stove, but that is a hefty amount of smoke pouring out for such a small amount of wood in the box.

 

[vvvv]

white smoke is water, blue smoke is fuel............pull this!

 

[albertj03]

Here is my Pacific Energy Super 27 right after throwing some small splits on a good bed of coals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUe8MYgkaF4

 

[Battenkiller]

Here is my Pacific Energy Super 27 right after throwing some small splits on a good bed of coals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUe8MYgkaF4

Look, I'm not putting down PE stoves, I'm sure they're as good or better than anything out there. I was just wasting time on YT and clicked on that link and saw all the smoke and thought WTF. If they all behaved that way, I'm sure they wouldn't pass the EPA test procedure. ;-)

White smoke means that the droplets are small than visible light waves. Can be steam condensate or tar droplets. Steam condensate evaporates and dissipates quickly in the air, tar doesn't.

 

[BrotherBart]

You will never know what is going on there. You don't know what "substance" is in that stove burning to get it started. You don't know if maybe the wood was cut the day before etc.

 

[albertj03]

I saw that clip a long time ago and thought the same thing, wtf? Obviously there is something wrong happening there. Probably wet wood. Once I get the secondary burn going in my S27 I have no smoke at all coming out of the chimney.