New Napoleon 1100PL Stove - First fire & question.

[gchunter]

I want to thank everyone on here for their knowledge and willingness to share it. I bought from a local Stove store and installed my Napoleon 1100PL myself with some help from a great neighbor. I installed it using 6" double wall on the inside running into a new 6" double wall class A chimney on the outside.

I purchased an all black stove and before installing, I painted the legs and door a dark metallic brown to give it some accent with paint that I purchased from the efireplacestore. ( wife really likes that)

When I purchased the stove they threw in on the deal a Napoleon branded stove top magnetic temp gage. ( you can see it on top in the picture) The stove shop guy told me to place it on top of the stove in front of the stove pipe and that I should run the stove from 350 - 500 degrees. Is this the correct range to burn in? Also should I install a probe temp gage into the pipe and if so what brand & probe length would you suggest? Also what is the correct range?

Thanks to everyone!

Al

 

[Nick Mystic]

Nice job with the customizing paint job. I hope it holds up well for you. I'm not familiar with your stove, so I can't speak first hand regarding the stove top temperatures and thermometer placement. One would like to think the stove shop guy would give you the straight scoop, but I've gotten enough misinformation from sales people of the years that I take most of what they tell me with a grain of salt. I would dig into the stove manual to see if they give you information to confirm what the store said. I recently bought and installed a new Jotul F600 and the manual gave specific instructions on where the thermometer should be placed (one of the top corners). When the thermometer is reading 500 F in that location my IR thermometer gives a reading more than 100F higher when I aim it at the location where you have your thermometer. I'm not contradicting anything your store told you, I'm just pointing out that on my stove there is a significant difference between a couple of places on my top. If I burned my Jotul at between 350 - 500F where your thermometer is situated I would have a difficult time getting my secondaries to fire off since the stove would be too cool. As for the probe question I have no experience using one. Good luck with your new stove. It looks like you have a nice clean installation.

 

[begreen]

Nice paint job. Don't be disconcerted if by mid-winter you are running the stove at 600-650F on the stove top. It is fine at that temp. Is that double-wall connector pipe? If so you can use a Condar probe thermometer.
(broken link removed to http://www.condar.com/probe_meters.html)

 

[gchunter]

Nice paint job. Don't be disconcerted if by mid-winter you are running the stove at 600-650F on the stove top. It is fine at that temp. Is that double-wall connector pipe? If so you can use a Condar probe thermometer.
(broken link removed to http://www.condar.com/probe_meters.html)

Thanks begreen! Yes it is double wall pipe. What length prope do you recommend?

Al

 

[begreen]

It only comes in one length that I know of, 4".

 

[gchunter]

Ok. Thank you, your the best. I followed the link you posted and found that out. Am going to order one tomorrow.

Al

 

[mepellet]

I just ordered a condar probe thermometer to use in my double wall stove pipe for my Napoleon 1100c that I bought used. I an also curious about operating temperatures. I don't remember seeing them in the manual.

 

[begreen]

Stove manuals are usually vague or moot on this point. Probably because most stove owners are not the fire geeks that we are.

 

[gchunter]

Just ordered a Condar Flueguard probe temp gage.

 

[firefighterjake]

Stove manuals are usually vague or moot on this point. Probably because most stove owners are not the fire geeks that we are.

Who are you calling a fire geek . . . I'm a fire nerd thank you very much.

 

[mepellet]

Just ordered a Condar Flueguard probe temp gage.

Just got mine today. Gotta install the chimney and stove pipe now. Nothing like waiting to the last minute.....

 

[gchunter]

Just got mine today. Gotta install the chimney and stove pipe now. Nothing like waiting to the last minute.....

Cant wait for mine to get here.