Hello all,
Removed my Fisher Mama Stove this summer and tore down my masonry chimney. I have my IS installed and connected to Selkirk Class A UT chimney pipe. The chimney is 20' tall from the tee connection to the top. I have a goofy roof called a mansard so the second floor is tapered in about 1.5' on all sides going up to a flat roof slanted towards the rear of the dwelling. Started my burn in fire last night and was happy with the stove.
I do have a question for the IS burners here. I was able to slowly heat the stove to 400 monitored at the point where the stove would exit for a top exhaust. I exhaust out the back. I ran it at 400 for the required 45 minutes. I had the cat engaged and was running about 3/4 open on the air. I disengaged the cat to add 3 large splits of mixed wood Oak and Cherry. closed the door and ran draft open full air to ignite the new load. Engaged the cat after a fem more and reached 550 degrees easily. Suppose to burn at 600 for 45-60 minutes and I could never get to 600. Itried moving the air to 1/3 open kinda hung at 550. Closed the air to 1/4 and it went down little. Opened air to 3/4 and it just hung at 550. What should I do when trying to hit the 600 degree mark? Run full air cat disengaged close down the air below 1/4 with cat engaged?
This stove runs way different then my Fisher and I know there is going to be a learning curve. Wood was in the 15-20 percent moisture range with no sizzling at the ends ever during the burn. Will post a video of the process once I edit the footage. Will add some pics of the chimney install this evening hopefully. Out side temp was 70 degrees. One thing I was suprised with was the temp of the Class A double wall chimney pipe outside reading 150 degrees 1' above the tee.
Thanks for you thoughts
~Micah
Removed my Fisher Mama Stove this summer and tore down my masonry chimney. I have my IS installed and connected to Selkirk Class A UT chimney pipe. The chimney is 20' tall from the tee connection to the top. I have a goofy roof called a mansard so the second floor is tapered in about 1.5' on all sides going up to a flat roof slanted towards the rear of the dwelling. Started my burn in fire last night and was happy with the stove.
I do have a question for the IS burners here. I was able to slowly heat the stove to 400 monitored at the point where the stove would exit for a top exhaust. I exhaust out the back. I ran it at 400 for the required 45 minutes. I had the cat engaged and was running about 3/4 open on the air. I disengaged the cat to add 3 large splits of mixed wood Oak and Cherry. closed the door and ran draft open full air to ignite the new load. Engaged the cat after a fem more and reached 550 degrees easily. Suppose to burn at 600 for 45-60 minutes and I could never get to 600. Itried moving the air to 1/3 open kinda hung at 550. Closed the air to 1/4 and it went down little. Opened air to 3/4 and it just hung at 550. What should I do when trying to hit the 600 degree mark? Run full air cat disengaged close down the air below 1/4 with cat engaged?
This stove runs way different then my Fisher and I know there is going to be a learning curve. Wood was in the 15-20 percent moisture range with no sizzling at the ends ever during the burn. Will post a video of the process once I edit the footage. Will add some pics of the chimney install this evening hopefully. Out side temp was 70 degrees. One thing I was suprised with was the temp of the Class A double wall chimney pipe outside reading 150 degrees 1' above the tee.
Thanks for you thoughts
~Micah
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