I built a new house which included a 6 inch stainless chimney. Code in ohio required an outside air source to be installed, so an insulated vent was run close to the area where I would put the stove. It looks about 5 or 6 inches dia.
I had a TL300 installed later. It would shoot flames and smoke up at me when I opened the top. so I stuck a 3 inch flex tube I had laying around into the 6 inch air source, and ran it down to the floor and layed it behind the stove close to the rear air intake. That seemed to solve everything.
Now I am completing my set up, which was installed for emergency use (no electric)as my geothermal heats cheaper then burning wood. I began to like it alot as I learned to burn the stove, and now I burn it as an obssesion, not a necessity. I can never burn all the wood available to me, but do not have time to burn 24/7. It burns weekends and cold nights when I have time to do it.
Any how, it appears I need the outside airsource to burn, as my house is extremely tight, blown foam with fiberglass insulation over that,,I wondered if I should just leave it laying on the floor behind the stove, as it is now,,or connect it? I feel air flowing out of the hose. It is a 3 inch, and I think the book says I should use 4 inch due to the length. I will change it to the 4 inch if that is needed..
The question--- Doesn't the rear hole feed the "firedome"? If so, I think the outside air should just continue laying on the floor so that the stove could also use the incoming air for main combustion and keep the room from being low pressure. If it is connected, only the secondary burn will get any advantage and the stove may spit the dragon breath at me again.
But,, on the other side of the coin, if it was connected to the back of the stove, air would just flow from the outside, thru the stove and out the chimney when I was not burning, which would prevent heat loss when there was no fire by making a closed circuit of the air since the gaskets seal the stove.
Any experience?
I had a TL300 installed later. It would shoot flames and smoke up at me when I opened the top. so I stuck a 3 inch flex tube I had laying around into the 6 inch air source, and ran it down to the floor and layed it behind the stove close to the rear air intake. That seemed to solve everything.
Now I am completing my set up, which was installed for emergency use (no electric)as my geothermal heats cheaper then burning wood. I began to like it alot as I learned to burn the stove, and now I burn it as an obssesion, not a necessity. I can never burn all the wood available to me, but do not have time to burn 24/7. It burns weekends and cold nights when I have time to do it.
Any how, it appears I need the outside airsource to burn, as my house is extremely tight, blown foam with fiberglass insulation over that,,I wondered if I should just leave it laying on the floor behind the stove, as it is now,,or connect it? I feel air flowing out of the hose. It is a 3 inch, and I think the book says I should use 4 inch due to the length. I will change it to the 4 inch if that is needed..
The question--- Doesn't the rear hole feed the "firedome"? If so, I think the outside air should just continue laying on the floor so that the stove could also use the incoming air for main combustion and keep the room from being low pressure. If it is connected, only the secondary burn will get any advantage and the stove may spit the dragon breath at me again.
But,, on the other side of the coin, if it was connected to the back of the stove, air would just flow from the outside, thru the stove and out the chimney when I was not burning, which would prevent heat loss when there was no fire by making a closed circuit of the air since the gaskets seal the stove.
Any experience?
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