Blaze king Ashford 25 Lowest setting, still seeing decent size flame, shorter burn time

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JZ333

New Member
Oct 20, 2025
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Massachusetts
Hello,
This is my first season ever using wood insert. So still in the process figuring out things.
Last night and this morning when I ran the stove, I got it going pretty easy, reached the CAT temp in 25mins, closed the bypass door, waited another 20mins, slowly turning down the temperature setting. 2 hour after, the CAT is still in the active range, but I can see a medium size fame going on in the insert. Last night I loaded the stove around 11pm and by 8am this morning the needle just dropped the active zone, so roughly 9 hours before I have to reload the stove.
My question is that is the active flame shorten mu burn time? It is new stove installed in October. Since I have already closed the bypass door and the temp setting to the lowest, how can I put out the fire to have a long burn time.
Thank you!