Higher temp-Easier control

[hareball]

Okay so I got over that fear of 500 degrees on the pipe. I've learned alot here over the last month about the proper ways to keep and maintain a smokeless fire even in a 30+ year old stove. I guess it makes sense that a hotter firebox would be easier to control but I guess there is a science to it. I'm guessing the splits must reach a certain point in their mass whereas the slightest air adjustment can control the burn? Tonight I was able to dial in any temp from 450 upwards of 750 and the stove pipe would react and settle within 5 minutes. 750 degrees was rather impressive...talk about radiating some heat! I think bricks in the hearth thought they were being cured again.

Thanks for all the good reads and someday I hope to get one of those newer designs for my second hearth that currently sits empty.

 

[PJF1313]

Okay so I got over that fear of 500 degrees on the pipe. I've learned alot here over the last month about the proper ways to keep and maintain a smokeless fire even in a 30+ year old stove. I guess it makes sense that a hotter firebox would be easier to control but I guess there is a science to it. I'm guessing the splits must reach a certain point in their mass whereas the slightest air adjustment can control the burn? Tonight I was able to dial in any temp from 450 upwards of 750 and the stove pipe would react and settle within 5 minutes. 750 degrees was rather impressive...talk about radiating some heat! I think bricks in the hearth thought they were being cured again.

Thanks for all the good reads and someday I hope to get one of those newer designs for my second hearth that currently sits empty.

What kind of t-stat are you using on your pipe - magnetic type or a probe?

When I get my probe to ~500 or so (about 400 on the surface type), any surface thermometer on the stove is in 7-800 deg range.
Granted, it's not glowing (yet), but I gotta take care of the old girl for the rest of the season ;-)

Hopefully Uncle Sam is going to be nice to me this year, so I can join all you EPA users.


Have a Happy, Healthy and, most important, SAFE, New Year !

 

[hareball]

Thank you, same to you too!

I have a Condar magnetic about 18" up the pipe.

This was my first time taking it up that high and everything went smooth, somehow by holding around 550 on the pipe I was getting better burn times and by morning the house was still warm with 3 splits thrown on a big coal bed before I went to sleep.
The Fisher was never intended to have to work that hard as my Father did put a second hearth in the home around the same time but that stove became unsafe a few years ago so it was scraped. I'd like to get one of them EPA stoves with that secondry burn technology someday and set it up on that hearth.