Got the adrenaline pumping last PM.
Leyden had been cruising in downdraft mode for about an hour with pretty stable temps. 600flue and 600 stove.
Then I started getting those syrupy blue flames rolling around the splits. Then some minor "explosions". This happens and usually I just watch the show. But I noticed a short time later the flue was reading 800, then 900, then 1000, then 1100. . .
At this point, I decided something was amiss and that I needed to kill the secondary air. No foil in house! So, I stuffed a couple of oven mitts into it and within a few minutes I went from 1200 right down to 600.
I cannot figure out what happened. Why did my flue temps skyrocket inside of a few minutes like that? Stove temp never exceeded 650.
Very high pressure and windy. But I don't like to think that means I can't run the stove safely in those conditions.
Any suggestions on what happened? I'm really bummed.
And if I hadn't been a part of this site, I would never have known to cover the secondary and snuff things out. Thank you all so much for that.
Leyden had been cruising in downdraft mode for about an hour with pretty stable temps. 600flue and 600 stove.
Then I started getting those syrupy blue flames rolling around the splits. Then some minor "explosions". This happens and usually I just watch the show. But I noticed a short time later the flue was reading 800, then 900, then 1000, then 1100. . .
At this point, I decided something was amiss and that I needed to kill the secondary air. No foil in house! So, I stuffed a couple of oven mitts into it and within a few minutes I went from 1200 right down to 600.
I cannot figure out what happened. Why did my flue temps skyrocket inside of a few minutes like that? Stove temp never exceeded 650.
Very high pressure and windy. But I don't like to think that means I can't run the stove safely in those conditions.
Any suggestions on what happened? I'm really bummed.
And if I hadn't been a part of this site, I would never have known to cover the secondary and snuff things out. Thank you all so much for that.