Arrived home Saturday night after a week away to gusty winds, moist air, outside temps of 52 and inside 62. Unpacked, ate, connected my computer, and checked e-mails and hearth.com. Read Waulie's post with interest, so decided to play around with the stove when I started my fire at 12:50 AM:
Outside temp lower than 52 (52 at 10PM)
Inside temp 62
Load: 12 pounds sugar maple splits into cold stove, air and bypass open
12:57 Maple has all caught, fire is starting to roar
12:57- 1:45 played around with air control and catalytic bypass for the fun of it
1:45 bypass is closed, air is cracked open, stove top is 250
6:30 (dawn) Stovetop 350
8:30 46 out, windy; 68 in, stovetop 300.
Lifted soapstone to expose cooktop, and cooked oatmeal and Red River cereals on two of the three elements, after opening the air to about 1/4
10:00 Soapstone is covering cooktop, stone is 300, air is totally closed
1PM Stovetop 200, red coals in firebox, room is still 68
1:45 Still lots of hot coals; opened bypass and air, added small 2 pound maple slit.Caught
in under 1 minute
2:00 Double wall flu pipe 150, closed bypass, completely closed air, gases flaming
6:10 Coals, stovetop 150, house 72
7:15 Add 1 dogwood log, bypass and air open
7:20 Roaring fir, air closed to 1/2
7:27 Stovetop 220, Stovepipe 170, closed bypass
7:35 Stovetop 260, pipe 170, 52 degrees out, very active gas flames
7:38 Stovetop 300, pipe 170
7:40 Stovetop 310, pipe140
8:46 Stovetop 310,pipe 150 70 degrees inside
5:30 AM Stovetop 170, pipe 100. open air and bypass, add 5 lbs maple splits
5:55 Stovetop 240, pipe 170, closed bypass, closed air to 1/2
6:10 air closed then cracked open
6:15 Stovetop 310, pipe 170, closed air supply totally
6:50 Stovetop 340, pipe 140...
and the story goes on.
My PH is heating my 3000 plus square foot home a good 20 degrees above pre-fire temps
using about twelve pounds of wood per 12 hour + burn. I'm very happy.
Outside temp lower than 52 (52 at 10PM)
Inside temp 62
Load: 12 pounds sugar maple splits into cold stove, air and bypass open
12:57 Maple has all caught, fire is starting to roar
12:57- 1:45 played around with air control and catalytic bypass for the fun of it
1:45 bypass is closed, air is cracked open, stove top is 250
6:30 (dawn) Stovetop 350
8:30 46 out, windy; 68 in, stovetop 300.
Lifted soapstone to expose cooktop, and cooked oatmeal and Red River cereals on two of the three elements, after opening the air to about 1/4
10:00 Soapstone is covering cooktop, stone is 300, air is totally closed
1PM Stovetop 200, red coals in firebox, room is still 68
1:45 Still lots of hot coals; opened bypass and air, added small 2 pound maple slit.Caught
in under 1 minute
2:00 Double wall flu pipe 150, closed bypass, completely closed air, gases flaming
6:10 Coals, stovetop 150, house 72
7:15 Add 1 dogwood log, bypass and air open
7:20 Roaring fir, air closed to 1/2
7:27 Stovetop 220, Stovepipe 170, closed bypass
7:35 Stovetop 260, pipe 170, 52 degrees out, very active gas flames
7:38 Stovetop 300, pipe 170
7:40 Stovetop 310, pipe140
8:46 Stovetop 310,pipe 150 70 degrees inside
5:30 AM Stovetop 170, pipe 100. open air and bypass, add 5 lbs maple splits
5:55 Stovetop 240, pipe 170, closed bypass, closed air to 1/2
6:10 air closed then cracked open
6:15 Stovetop 310, pipe 170, closed air supply totally
6:50 Stovetop 340, pipe 140...
and the story goes on.
My PH is heating my 3000 plus square foot home a good 20 degrees above pre-fire temps
using about twelve pounds of wood per 12 hour + burn. I'm very happy.