Concern about burning my stove too hot

[johnblacksox]

I have a fireplace insert woodstove, with a cat. Recently, I was burning a very hot fire for a few hours, and re-loaded it up with wood. Cat was glowing orange, and secondary burn was going strong. I looked up into the stove at one point, and the middle inside ceiling of the stove was glowing orange. I know that's not good, so I choked the air back and got the temp back down a little.

Obviously, I'll try to never do that again. I checked the stove out after it cooled the next day, and the metal on the interior ceiling looks fine, no damage.

My question is, how dangerous is it to do that?

 

[Woodsplitter67]

What stove do you have. You should look in the manual it came with and read up on it. You should be using a bimetal thermometer or an IR gun. Taking the temperature to high will warp things in the stove.. you dont want that

 

[gibbs906]

I have a fireplace insert woodstove, with a cat. Recently, I was burning a very hot fire for a few hours, and re-loaded it up with wood. Cat was glowing orange, and secondary burn was going strong. I looked up into the stove at one point, and the middle inside ceiling of the stove was glowing orange. I know that's not good, so I choked the air back and got the temp back down a little.

Obviously, I'll try to never do that again. I checked the stove out after it cooled the next day, and the metal on the interior ceiling looks fine, no damage.

My question is, how dangerous is it to do that?

fwiw, 20yrs ago I ruined a Riteway wood boiler with burning too hot, the bottom grates got so hot they sagged down to where I couldn't pull out the ash tray any more.

 

[begreen]

Is this with the Lopi Large Flush insert? What we don't know is how hot the stove was being run during the previous few hours. What part was glowing orange, the secondary tubes? If so, this probably did not damage the stove but it illustrates the value of instrumentation on the stove and the importance of not putting a large load of wood on a large bed of hot coals.