I've read the handful of threads about this, and the consensus seems to be "open the door" when the fire gets too hot too quickly. But here I am asking about it anyways, as my experience with that was not too pleasant!
Context: I've only had our stove for two weeks, and am still getting used to its quirks, how the re-load cycles work, etc. Thanks very much to this forum for all I've learned thus far.
The stove is small (Drolet Deco Nano, ~1.6cu ft firebox) that's connected to an ICC double-wall Excel chimney. I don't have a flue thermo but I do have an Imperial magnetic thermometer on the top of the stove right near the flue collar. When burning dry Ash/Maple, I see it go up into ~650-700F range for 15-20 minutes at the "height" of the burn, then settle in near 550F or so, and the secondary burn is excellent with no smoke out of the chimney, etc.
Today, I raked the (still red hot) coals while the stove was around 500F, and put two ~4x4" dry Ash splits and one larger ~3x6" split on top. Closed the door and turned the air intake down as I normally would (maybe 3-5 min open all the way then back it down to half-open; half-open for 10 minutes or so, then all the way closed). The temp kept creeping up and up even with the air intake all the way closed, until the stove was around 750F. I am used to the "pinging" noises of the flue expanding/contracting, but I could tell the temp was still going up pretty quickly. So as a "worst case scenario" test to see how rapidly the temp would reduce, I opened the door all the way.
The opposite of what I thought would happen, happened: within two minutes, the stovetop thermo was off the charts (roughly 900-1000F), smoke was coming from the flue pipe (presumably from the paint getting hit with temps it hadn't seen yet), and the stickers were melting off of it. I opened every door and window in the house and got my fire extinguisher, hoping I wouldn't have to explain to the neighbours that "yes, we did just get this stove installed two weeks ago, and yes, it did burn our house down."
Within 10-15 minutes, STT was back to 650 or so and my heart rate slowly went down. I know the pipe is rated to "3 x 30 maximum 2100F", but, whew.
My question is: what did I do wrong here? When temps are reaching ~800F or so, should I just have left the air intake all the way closed and let it burn down? Is opening the door all the way NOT the way to cool the stove down rapidly? What kind of damage did I potentially just do?
Context: I've only had our stove for two weeks, and am still getting used to its quirks, how the re-load cycles work, etc. Thanks very much to this forum for all I've learned thus far.
The stove is small (Drolet Deco Nano, ~1.6cu ft firebox) that's connected to an ICC double-wall Excel chimney. I don't have a flue thermo but I do have an Imperial magnetic thermometer on the top of the stove right near the flue collar. When burning dry Ash/Maple, I see it go up into ~650-700F range for 15-20 minutes at the "height" of the burn, then settle in near 550F or so, and the secondary burn is excellent with no smoke out of the chimney, etc.
Today, I raked the (still red hot) coals while the stove was around 500F, and put two ~4x4" dry Ash splits and one larger ~3x6" split on top. Closed the door and turned the air intake down as I normally would (maybe 3-5 min open all the way then back it down to half-open; half-open for 10 minutes or so, then all the way closed). The temp kept creeping up and up even with the air intake all the way closed, until the stove was around 750F. I am used to the "pinging" noises of the flue expanding/contracting, but I could tell the temp was still going up pretty quickly. So as a "worst case scenario" test to see how rapidly the temp would reduce, I opened the door all the way.
The opposite of what I thought would happen, happened: within two minutes, the stovetop thermo was off the charts (roughly 900-1000F), smoke was coming from the flue pipe (presumably from the paint getting hit with temps it hadn't seen yet), and the stickers were melting off of it. I opened every door and window in the house and got my fire extinguisher, hoping I wouldn't have to explain to the neighbours that "yes, we did just get this stove installed two weeks ago, and yes, it did burn our house down."
Within 10-15 minutes, STT was back to 650 or so and my heart rate slowly went down. I know the pipe is rated to "3 x 30 maximum 2100F", but, whew.
My question is: what did I do wrong here? When temps are reaching ~800F or so, should I just have left the air intake all the way closed and let it burn down? Is opening the door all the way NOT the way to cool the stove down rapidly? What kind of damage did I potentially just do?