Whats the average temp you run your stove at? And how long does it take for you to reach a stove top temp of 500 degrees?
Anyone have a Jotul F600
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Timebandit said:
Ive burned one in my showroom. I would run it at 450-600 degrees. It's a big stove and without babysitting it (light with some firestarters some kindling and then loading wood on top and opening the air) it would take about an hour to get up to cruising temps. Once there it would maintain a fire nicely. It is my opinion that a very large stove like that shouldnt be an on/off every day stove. It should be started up when the cold weather gets here and run all year long non stop. That is just my opinion and my opinions normally get slammed, so take it how you want.
I have been burning my f600 cat model for the last two seasons, this one being the third.
I usually burn 24/7
Around late November I will light it and then until sometime in February I will just keep adding wood to the coals. I get about 9 - 10 hour burns on each load. The coals can sustain heat for an hour or two sometimes before I put more wood on.
Anyway, I use a stove top magnetic thermometer. I get it up to about 400 before I turn on the cat ( takes about a half hour to get it up to temp with seasones wood, longer if its wet wood). If the wood is not perfectly seasoned you need to get it up to about 450 to ensure the CAT ignites. I keep it burning at about 400-450 steady with the air shut down 90%, it'll burn for a good 9-10 hours this way. Half loads are what I'm burning now and I get about 4-5 hours burn on those.
I have to say, I absolutely love this stove and its coming with us when we sell the house. I have no experience with other stoves but I can say I really enjoy this one, especially with the top loader feature. Just keep an eye out not to scrape the gasket on the top loader when loading wood. It could cause a runaway fire.
Enjoy your Jotul
I usually burn 24/7
Around late November I will light it and then until sometime in February I will just keep adding wood to the coals. I get about 9 - 10 hour burns on each load. The coals can sustain heat for an hour or two sometimes before I put more wood on.
Anyway, I use a stove top magnetic thermometer. I get it up to about 400 before I turn on the cat ( takes about a half hour to get it up to temp with seasones wood, longer if its wet wood). If the wood is not perfectly seasoned you need to get it up to about 450 to ensure the CAT ignites. I keep it burning at about 400-450 steady with the air shut down 90%, it'll burn for a good 9-10 hours this way. Half loads are what I'm burning now and I get about 4-5 hours burn on those.
I have to say, I absolutely love this stove and its coming with us when we sell the house. I have no experience with other stoves but I can say I really enjoy this one, especially with the top loader feature. Just keep an eye out not to scrape the gasket on the top loader when loading wood. It could cause a runaway fire.
Enjoy your Jotul
yup, that foot pedal top loader was the dogs meow. That was an easy selling stove back in the cat stove days. (i know i know, cat stoves are teh pwn and all that)
Franks said:
Yep, I a love the foot pedal top loader feature. My dog loves lounging in front of it.....except he doesn't meow, he grunts.
I don't care what anyone says about CAT stoves. This thing burns and burns clean. I have used not so perfect wood the last two seasons and I have never had any creosite issues.
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