OK, on my list of woodstoves to buy for my upcoming basement/den install is the new Woodstock combo cat/secondary burn stove, in addition to a few other make and models.
Being a Woodstock Keystone owner, one of the things I really like about this stove is the cat combustor vs. the secondary tube non-cat arrangement. I feel both are great ends to a clean burn, but I read a goodly amount of postings, especially with the Englander NC30, of overheating stoves at times on reload. Knock on wood; I can load my Keystone at 500 degrees stove top with zero problems with run-away temperatures. I don’t know why I haven’t sent the stove top over 700 degrees, but the stove just seems to max out at 650ish temps and gradually cools to 500-600 temps and cruises. I load the stove, wait a few minutes, set the damper and get on with other things. It may be that the firebox is just to small in capacity to off-gas enough smoke to overfire the stove.
This brings me to the new Woodstock hybrid stove.
How controllable do you think this new stove will be on hot reloads with both the cat and secondary tube set-up (I assume that is how it will be done). Will the stove be controllable like my Keystone or can I expect to babysit it for an hour before it settles into cruise mode?
What I wish Woodstock would do is simply scale-up the Keystone. The Keystone has a large glass window, top/rear vent, ash pan, cat combustor and a really nice modern look to it. It is also dead simple to operate, minimal parts, gaskets, linkages, etc. If Woodstock did a scale-up on the Keystone, I’d be on the pre-order list ASAP.
So based on your experiences with cat stoves and non-cat stoves, how to you think this new stove is going to operate and if it will behave differently from today’s designs.
Thanks
!!
Bill
Being a Woodstock Keystone owner, one of the things I really like about this stove is the cat combustor vs. the secondary tube non-cat arrangement. I feel both are great ends to a clean burn, but I read a goodly amount of postings, especially with the Englander NC30, of overheating stoves at times on reload. Knock on wood; I can load my Keystone at 500 degrees stove top with zero problems with run-away temperatures. I don’t know why I haven’t sent the stove top over 700 degrees, but the stove just seems to max out at 650ish temps and gradually cools to 500-600 temps and cruises. I load the stove, wait a few minutes, set the damper and get on with other things. It may be that the firebox is just to small in capacity to off-gas enough smoke to overfire the stove.
This brings me to the new Woodstock hybrid stove.
How controllable do you think this new stove will be on hot reloads with both the cat and secondary tube set-up (I assume that is how it will be done). Will the stove be controllable like my Keystone or can I expect to babysit it for an hour before it settles into cruise mode?
What I wish Woodstock would do is simply scale-up the Keystone. The Keystone has a large glass window, top/rear vent, ash pan, cat combustor and a really nice modern look to it. It is also dead simple to operate, minimal parts, gaskets, linkages, etc. If Woodstock did a scale-up on the Keystone, I’d be on the pre-order list ASAP.
So based on your experiences with cat stoves and non-cat stoves, how to you think this new stove is going to operate and if it will behave differently from today’s designs.
Thanks
!!Bill
