Got the insert installed last Wednesday and I have been burning E-S. Seems like a good hot burn, I get no smoke from chimney, no backdraft. I never was able to get good strong secondaries but I figured with no smoke out the chimney evrything must be working good. Last night I attempted my 1st N-S burn. I started the fire E-S and let it burn to coals and die down to about 300. I raked the coals forward and added 4 splits (maybe 4" each). That thing just took off. At 400 I closed the primary to 3/4. At 450 I closed it all the way. Themps kept climbing to 600 and it sounded like I had a blow torch in my stove. The secondaries were just blowing like crazy. I was scared to go to bed. I stayed up with it until it went back down to 550. Is this the way it is supposed to work?
Happy to say though that we have had lows of 25 and highs of 40 and I haven't had that darn furnace on for 5 days!
Happy to say though that we have had lows of 25 and highs of 40 and I haven't had that darn furnace on for 5 days!