Cat question

[CTwith3]

I have a VC Encore FlexBurn.
I get the stove heated up to 500F, make sure I have a solid bed of coals, and throw the lever to operate in Cat mode.
My question is this: after putting it in Cat mode and it has been running a while and my splits have burned down some, at what lower temp should I be taking it out of Cat mode? 400? 350?

 

[Woody Stover]

I, and I think most others, just leave it in cat mode even though it's not burning. The path the exhaust takes through the stove in cat mode will extract more heat, and send less up the flue. You could ask in the VC thread, but I would think that with Flexburn, you would burn in secondary mode for a while, then switch to cat for the duration. I'm just guessing though...

 

[CTwith3]

VC thread? My stove is only 3 years old, all I saw was a forum for much older stoves.

 

[Woody Stover]

There are some 2040 owners around... https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/2016-2017-vc-owners-thread.156768/

 

[Dobish]

and this one
https://www.hearth.com/talk/posts/2106431/