Hi All,
Brand new to wood burning and have had my Napoleon 1402 insert for 2 weeks now. Love the thing, it's doing the job on my 2500/ft2 two story home built in 95. Definitely not air tight house as the windows are terrible.
I'm posting for any tips and tricks from those more seasoned individuals in wood burning. My wood has 1 year on it as I cut, split and stacked last December and is a mix of cherry, oak, and some Bradford Pear. Moister with my rather cheap reader is at 20%. The stoves lights like a champ and rises to around 500-550 when I finally choke the air to 2 or less. From there it cruises around 500-550 for an hour or so with the secondary burners firing like it should and then tapers into the mid 300 400s for the majority of the rest of the time.
I was just curious if anyone had experience with the best temps for this stove? I'm getting about a 5-6 hour burn with hot coals enough to relight without kindling as late as 10-12 hrs. Overall I'm pleased with the burn times and didn't expect any miracles as this stove is to supplement my heat pump with electric back up. Ohios winter had me seeing $700 electric bills last season and that isn't happening again! EVER!! I write this as just came in from bow hunting out back with temps at 30f outside and 70f inside.
Any and all advice is appreciated for this rookie!
Brand new to wood burning and have had my Napoleon 1402 insert for 2 weeks now. Love the thing, it's doing the job on my 2500/ft2 two story home built in 95. Definitely not air tight house as the windows are terrible.
I'm posting for any tips and tricks from those more seasoned individuals in wood burning. My wood has 1 year on it as I cut, split and stacked last December and is a mix of cherry, oak, and some Bradford Pear. Moister with my rather cheap reader is at 20%. The stoves lights like a champ and rises to around 500-550 when I finally choke the air to 2 or less. From there it cruises around 500-550 for an hour or so with the secondary burners firing like it should and then tapers into the mid 300 400s for the majority of the rest of the time.
I was just curious if anyone had experience with the best temps for this stove? I'm getting about a 5-6 hour burn with hot coals enough to relight without kindling as late as 10-12 hrs. Overall I'm pleased with the burn times and didn't expect any miracles as this stove is to supplement my heat pump with electric back up. Ohios winter had me seeing $700 electric bills last season and that isn't happening again! EVER!! I write this as just came in from bow hunting out back with temps at 30f outside and 70f inside.
Any and all advice is appreciated for this rookie!