Hi all,
Ok, this is gonna sound really obvious to some of you...
But I've been really learning the stove this year and found I can get the BEST burns by shoving the stove FULL and then shutting the air all the way.
If I fill it 2/3rd, shutting the air all the way will kill it under the same circumstances.
But if it's, say, 450 stove top and I shove it full, I can shut the air down and within 10 minutes it's roaring secondaries, spiking up to 650-700 with the fan on high the whole time, and burning for hours.
So I recently "figured out" the science behind this -
With the stove box full, there's alot less AIR in the box. So I can shut the air input down, and it doesn't need nearly as much oxygen in order to burn really efficiently. Whereas, if I leave another .5 cubic feet of space free in there - it requires more air input (oxygen) in order to burn.
Meanwhile, I'm getting less overall heat output & more wood consumption when I'm only loading in 1/2 to 2/3rds full.
And it's all a matter of airspace available in the stove - less airspace = less air input needed to burn efficiently = greater heat output and slower burns due to less overall air flow.
There's my equation for the night
Joe
Ok, this is gonna sound really obvious to some of you...
But I've been really learning the stove this year and found I can get the BEST burns by shoving the stove FULL and then shutting the air all the way.
If I fill it 2/3rd, shutting the air all the way will kill it under the same circumstances.
But if it's, say, 450 stove top and I shove it full, I can shut the air down and within 10 minutes it's roaring secondaries, spiking up to 650-700 with the fan on high the whole time, and burning for hours.
So I recently "figured out" the science behind this -
With the stove box full, there's alot less AIR in the box. So I can shut the air input down, and it doesn't need nearly as much oxygen in order to burn really efficiently. Whereas, if I leave another .5 cubic feet of space free in there - it requires more air input (oxygen) in order to burn.
Meanwhile, I'm getting less overall heat output & more wood consumption when I'm only loading in 1/2 to 2/3rds full.
And it's all a matter of airspace available in the stove - less airspace = less air input needed to burn efficiently = greater heat output and slower burns due to less overall air flow.
There's my equation for the night
Joe