By no tubes, are you referring to their baffle system? I heard they may be a bit more robust than the Regencys. Plus I do like their side blower system. Really the one negative about the Super for us is it has the smallest glass of those inserts I'm currently looking at. That was a big plus for the Neo, but their 1.6 seems too small and the 2.5 seems quite large for this place. That said, the 2400 may still be a bit big.
That is a good point to consider. - We live on the edge of a forest, and cutting permits are very cheap. We already have a good wood supply that has ventilation and is out of the rain. We've been practically shoveling wood into our old drafty fireplace up til now - things will be very different here no matter what insert we end up with.
The newest durafoil combustors hit 550F or higher is less than 15 minutes...on cordwood, real world.
Keeping in mind of course the Hearth BK family are a finite group and like Highbeam, run around in minimal apparel! There is a real world study showing actual clean burning for up to 9.5 years. Of course, not all cat stoves are alike.
Actually, Highbeam reports pretty normal room temps. With a young family I suspect they stay fully clad. No user hear except one has reported a cat working for much over 12,000 hrs., 10,000 hrs being more typical.
If brand new, perhaps. Several threads advise to run the stove with bypass open for about 30 minutes to bring the cat up to temp and burn off any moisture. That appears to be the more common procedure reported. Regardless, a great deal of stoves in the marketplace are running on ceramic cats.
Well power outages here are rare, but it would be nice to know that we could still get by without power in the event it happened.
Thanks for that link. I was leery of running the Buck 91 without the blower but I don't know for sure if that would have been a problem. On my Dutchwest, there are removable plates that let the stove convect well if the blower is off. I unscrewed the bolts in the plates a ways to drop the plates down a bit if I didn't want to run the blower, or tightened the plates when running the blower. The blower had its own air inlet.
No relation to the Summit, except being a PE stove. The Pacific line was the predecessor of the Super. Almost the same stove, it's mostly a name change to make the naming consistent with the freestanding version. Same firebox size of ~2 cu ft.
The PE fans are set on the side blowing upward in a duct forcing the air through a baffle/diverter plate system on top between the firebox top & the outer upper casing. The fans take air in from the side grille(s). The older Summit and the smaller ones were one fan on the side. The new Summits have a fan on each side. No air is taken from below or forced out below the insert for the blower system.
