24 hours later?

[Rick8325]

This stove was dying down barely flaming what was left of the 3 logs I put in at 8pm last night. It's now 8pm the next night and I walk by my insert and saw this. I looked this morning and it was all ash from a quick glance. I'm in shock. My Quadra-Fire Voyaguer has been so disappointing with heating my house let alone the room it's in. This stove eats a whole bag of gas station bought kiln dried wood in 2 hours. And my ACC seems to be stuck open allowing too much air. Stove was showing 600 degrees last night on the IR thermometer and the chimney cap was reading -2 degrees with no smoke. I have a home energy audit tomorrow, hopefully they can tell me where this heat is going....

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[BrotherBart]

Happened to me with the 30-NC a few days ago. Monday was going to be 50 degrees so I didn't reload that morning after loading it for the night at nine PM Sunday night. Monday afternoon I noticed the stove was warm. At eight PM Monday night I opened it expecting to use a Super Cedar to start up a night load. There were enough coals in the back under the ash to load and go.

By manufacturer's definitions I had gotten a 23 hour burn.