I have a wood pro 2.0 stove I bought last year. Due to the very mild winter we had in southern Missouri we hardly had to burn the stove and rarely had to burn it hot enough to maintain warmth. I have a mobile home, approximately 1200 sq. ft. I am burning seasoned oak at the moment which has been seasoning for over a year. The wood lights easy and burns hot. This winter is already kicking off much cooler than last year and to maintain enough warmth I have to burn the stove much hotter. I prefer to keep it at 80 degrees in the house, any cooler and it seems to have physical as well as mental affects. So far the hottest the stove has went is 550 degrees F.
I have a surface mount temperature alarm which triggers at 500 degrees. I also have a flue temperature probe and the alarm is set to trigger at 650 degrees F but usually it burns around 300-400 for the flue.
My question is can I burn hotter than 500 degrees?
I feel like I need to burn hotter at times but from watching the fire it doesn't seem safe. When the surface temperature hits 500 degrees the fire inside is really blazing and even when I close the damper it seems like the fire is making its own weather inside and is somehow pulling in oxygen still from somewhere, despite the stove being air tight. The door seal and ash plug seal are fine and I don't see any cracks in the steel so I don't know why closing the damper seems to make no difference on the fire beyond 500 degrees. When it is less than 500 I can close the damper and the fire will immediately start to die down but beyond 500 closing the damper may not make any difference. Last night I had to turn on a big fan to blow the heat away from the stove because the temperature climbed to 550 with the damper closed and was continuing to rise. Once I turned the fan on it started cooling things down enough to kick off the alarm but I had to leave the damper closed.
My biggest complaint about this stove is the air intake. It seems like it is either fully open or fully closed and there is no in between as far as trying to maintain a medium burn. This stove also eats the wood like crazy. It has to be loaded every 2-3 hours. I usually throw wood in and close the damper at bed time and when it cools down too much the electric heat takes over so I don't wake up to a freezing house.
I have a surface mount temperature alarm which triggers at 500 degrees. I also have a flue temperature probe and the alarm is set to trigger at 650 degrees F but usually it burns around 300-400 for the flue.
My question is can I burn hotter than 500 degrees?
I feel like I need to burn hotter at times but from watching the fire it doesn't seem safe. When the surface temperature hits 500 degrees the fire inside is really blazing and even when I close the damper it seems like the fire is making its own weather inside and is somehow pulling in oxygen still from somewhere, despite the stove being air tight. The door seal and ash plug seal are fine and I don't see any cracks in the steel so I don't know why closing the damper seems to make no difference on the fire beyond 500 degrees. When it is less than 500 I can close the damper and the fire will immediately start to die down but beyond 500 closing the damper may not make any difference. Last night I had to turn on a big fan to blow the heat away from the stove because the temperature climbed to 550 with the damper closed and was continuing to rise. Once I turned the fan on it started cooling things down enough to kick off the alarm but I had to leave the damper closed.
My biggest complaint about this stove is the air intake. It seems like it is either fully open or fully closed and there is no in between as far as trying to maintain a medium burn. This stove also eats the wood like crazy. It has to be loaded every 2-3 hours. I usually throw wood in and close the damper at bed time and when it cools down too much the electric heat takes over so I don't wake up to a freezing house.
