Blaze King Princess 32 cat temps?

[PE32noob]

I've been burning a new PE32 about a month now and have had similar worries with the cat temp. I saw the cat thermometer wrap around to 8 o'clock once. It hasn't been so extreme since the first weeks burning, but it still climbs past the end of the active zone easily. My issue is the stove is not heating my place above 10°C despite the cat thermometer being high and the fire burning bright on the high setting.

I'm burning beetle-kill spruce with 15% moisture content. I have a 5' of single walled pipe above the stove and 14' of insulated double walled pipe above that (19' total). I haven't piped the air intake to the outside yet

The stove is on the open concept mainfloor, with 8' ceilings. The house footprint is 660sqft, with a second story above, the same size. Its a new build, air tight, with r30 walls and R68 attic, triple pane windows. The house maintains the heat very well, if I skip a day of burning, but I can't raise the heat to standard living contions (its been 0 to -10°C outside).

I've read the manual 3 times, and haven't found discussion online about these stoves not outputting enough heat. Any thoughts?

 

[moresnow]

I've been burning a new PE32 about a month now and have had similar worries with the cat temp. I saw the cat thermometer wrap around to 8 o'clock once. It hasn't been so extreme since the first weeks burning, but it still climbs past the end of the active zone easily. My issue is the stove is not heating my place above 10°C despite the cat thermometer being high and the fire burning bright on the high setting.

I'm burning beetle-kill spruce with 15% moisture content. I have a 5' of single walled pipe above the stove and 14' of insulated double walled pipe above that (19' total). I haven't piped the air intake to the outside yet

The stove is on the open concept mainfloor, with 8' ceilings. The house footprint is 660sqft, with a second story above, the same size. Its a new build, air tight, with r30 walls and R68 attic, triple pane windows. The house maintains the heat very well, if I skip a day of burning, but I can't raise the heat to standard living contions (its been 0 to -10°C outside).

I've read the manual 3 times, and haven't found discussion online about these stoves not outputting enough heat. Any thoughts?

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This post needs its own thread here. Plenty to decipher. Start your own post and you will be provided guidance. Good luck!

Done.

 

[PE32noob]

Done.

Thank you!

 

[Tron]

It's one thing that the stove itself is hot, but another if it's heating the building. You have to make sure that you have good convection throughout the room to distribute the heat. A ceiling fan running in reverse (i.e., pushing air toward the ceiling) works pretty well. The air will then hit the ceiling and come down at the sides, and at the same time you don't feel the draft from the fan.
Do you have the fans on the stove? Those are also good in pushing the heat into the room.

Also, if your house is rather airtight, and you don't have the OAK installed yet, you may need to crack a window to make sure the stove gets enough air.

That said, it may be hard to get the upper floors up to temperature, depending on the size of the stairwell. Warm air rises, but it needs a proper pathway to do so.

Where are you measuring your room temperature?

 

[Murray01]

Try a smallish fan behind the stove, it won’t be an efficient as the BK fans but should help moving air farther into the room.