Yesterday, my wife saw that the needle on our stove thermometer, was 700ºF + and said to me, "Hey, according to the charting on this Thermometer, we're burning in the "Danger Zone." I didn't know what to tell her, and said "I believe that this Thermometer is designed to read Flue temps, and since we have a double-walled Flue, it wouldn't read accurately, so I put it on the front flange of the stove, just to get an idea of the heat in the box; but that's not representative of what the heat is, in the Flue."
First, the double-wall Flue pipe is only double-walled as far as the ceiling baffle, correct? Beyond that, it's single wall, right?
Second, the temps that the thermometer is reading on the face flange of the stove is the fire box temp, and not the Flue temp, yes?
Third, the "Danger Zone" shown on the thermometer is for Flue temp safety, right?
Fourth, (and I think I asked this before) there is nothing bad about running the stove consistantly up around 650ºF to 750ºF, correct? (If anything, it's a great creosote destroyer).
-Soupy1957
P.S.: By the way........here's the thermometer that we bought: (I think this link is to an older version, because the right side of the gauge reads "Danger Zone" on ours).
http://www.amazon.com/Imperial-BM01...8-3624519?ie=UTF8&s=hi&qid=1265892724&sr=8-11
First, the double-wall Flue pipe is only double-walled as far as the ceiling baffle, correct? Beyond that, it's single wall, right?
Second, the temps that the thermometer is reading on the face flange of the stove is the fire box temp, and not the Flue temp, yes?
Third, the "Danger Zone" shown on the thermometer is for Flue temp safety, right?
Fourth, (and I think I asked this before) there is nothing bad about running the stove consistantly up around 650ºF to 750ºF, correct? (If anything, it's a great creosote destroyer).
-Soupy1957
P.S.: By the way........here's the thermometer that we bought: (I think this link is to an older version, because the right side of the gauge reads "Danger Zone" on ours).
http://www.amazon.com/Imperial-BM01...8-3624519?ie=UTF8&s=hi&qid=1265892724&sr=8-11