Baffle glowing red

[Treemoss]

I had a 6 log fire going last night and the top fire baffle was glowing red where the air holes come out of the secondary's. You can see the little red lines in the pic. Now they are new baffles that I put in yesterday. They were replacements for ones that I had that were shorter. Do you have to break in baffles or the glow is because it's getting nice and hot for the secondary's. Which is a good thing. My old baffles never got to the point of glowing. The new baffles that napoleon replaced with seem much heavier then the old ones. The inferno stove top magnet topped off at 600. I had it at 600 before with the old baffles but never got that glow.

 

[BrotherBart]

Normal. Probably better wood than you had before combined with better insulation value in the redesigned baffle boards. Mine glow on the 30-NC sometimes. For seven years now.

 

[Treemoss]

Oh ok, I thought that maybe I had the new baffles to hot for its first fire and the glow was a bad thing like moisture evaporation to fast. The fire lasted 5 hrs and there was hot Coals 6 hrs later. Which I never had the stove do before with the old baffles. Hopefully the new design of the baffles will run my stove much better and longer.

 

[Dix]

I'd like to see that in both stoves most of the time.

 

[Treemoss]

I am glad to here that it is a good thing. The only bad thing was my house was 78deg for 24 hrs. LoL

 

[CenterTree]

I am glad to here that it is a good thing. The only bad thing was my house was 78deg for 24 hrs. LoL

LOL, to me, ^^ THAT is also a good thing! ^^^^

 

[Nick Mystic]

With my Jotul F 600 woodstove my magnetic thermometer can read down as low as 400 F on the top corner where the manufacturer says to put it and the front most air tube on the secondary burn unit will glow red. I'm guessing the fire shooting out of the tubes behind it are super heating it.

 

[blueguy]

My Napoleon 1450 does the same thing.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Well it is baffling...

 

[Treemoss]

My Napoleon 1450 does the same thing.

Ok good to hear, how long can you get a fire to last in your stove. Also is east to west better for longer burn times. I know north to south gets it hotter.

 

[blueguy]

This is my second year with the stove, and the first with half decent wood. Last winter, I was getting about 5 hours or so of flame from a full load, and about 9 hours or so of useable heat. I found E-W loading lasted quite a bit longer, but N-S was a lot hotter. So far this year, we've been having better luck with some pretty dry softwood a buddy of mine needed gone. Once this cord is gone, we're going to start into the last cord from last year's hardwood stash...

 

[Treemoss]

That sounds good that is about 2 or less loads a day. Also that is with not that great of wood. Hope you do better this year with better wood.