how many leave there stoves on when not home

[FordMastertech]

I run it all the time when home or not. There are some many safety items one these stoves they will shut off before major trouble starts.

 

[Xena]

Yup. On all the time other than shutdown once a month for cleaning.
Main source of heat once the cold temps set in and I like a very warm
house so shutting it down is not an option for me.

 

[nosaudioil]

The stove runs whether we're here are not, except during a weekly maintain.

 

[Jonsered]

Stove is my only heat...if it goes out so do my pipes and my poor dogs would be coldy coldy.

 

[chris288]

24/7, I go away on business for a week at a time, and my wife is only home at night 3 days a week, I give it a good cleaning before I go and my dad comes over and tops it off, thats it..

I did have a nasty close call with my whitfield, and i dont know if newer stoves have any features that would prevent this but here is what happened: Middle of Winter, was at work and away from the house for ~12 hrs. stove on heat setting 3 of 5, convection blower on 4 of 5. Burn pot developed a clinker, clinker got worse and burning pellets eventually filled up the entire burn pot, pelelts spilled out of the burn pot and started a fire in the wells on each side of the pot, came home to a rip roaring blazing inferno ( no thermostat ) with pellets on fire in and around the pot, house was well over 90 degrees and the stove was snap crackle popping from all the heat, I'm surprised the stove didn't burn right down the the hearth pad. Fair warning, if your not 100% confident in your stoves reliability, a potential problem could happen.

 

[cncpro]

and i dont know if newer stoves have any features that would prevent this but here is what happened:

Does that old stove have "snap discs" ? My understanding is that if something unexpected happens and the stove gets dangerously hot the snap discs shut it down on modern stoves.