Charles how do you know you're overfiring are you measuring your stove temps w/ a thermometer? The one split on top of a bed of coals is meant to burn down a big pile of coals left over from a full load so you can load up again.
With a decent load of wood you ought to be able to run for a couple hours at least and keep max temp stove temps under 700ish with cruise around 500 give or take 100. If if shoots up to 750-800 w/ the air closed you may need a key damper to give you more control. I know that's not why you started this thread but I'd think you want to run the stove for a couple hours w/o having to futz with it.
OP I think they are polycarbonate. The sparks hit the "glass" and bounce back off, whereas if they were true glass they would fuse to the glass. The polycarbonate also blocks all UV light, which is what prevents flash burns.
So what are your temps? What is your burning procedure? What is the moisture content of your wood? If you truly are having problems with over firing you need a pipe damper to help control it. Loading one piece every hour if not the right way to burn a stove at all but we need more info to help you.Overfire is defined by the manufacturer, and yes, I'm using a thermometer.
Is the stove and pipe brand new by chance? Paint curing stink/fumes?
I wouldn't think the low amount of infrared given off by a stove would cause an issue.
They put an air control on it for a reason. Load it up and reduce the air as the fire gets stronger. If they were designed to be loaded one or two pieces at a time there wouldn't be stoves of different sizes.I find that loading it full doesn't reduce the coals any, and I have to choke the air back to prevent overfiring.
Like I said, more than one piece at a time will cause an overfire unless I choke the air back.
can you please give us the info we need to help you? We need to know how you are burning your stove what mc the wood is at and what temperatures you are running at?The paint cured last season when the stove and pipe were new - set off the smoke alarm.
I'm no physicist but I would have guessed that a stove would give off more infrared than most people ever experience.
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