smoke ?

[logman742]

I have a Lopi 1750 and my question is at anytime during a burn should there be smoke coming out of the chimney ?

 

[begreen]

There probably will during the first 10 minutes of the fire or after a reload. The drier the wood and hotter the start, the less smoke there will be.

 

[logman742]

I noticed smoke after i had shut my air down.The stove was running out about 550 and in it's coaling phase no smoke before I shut it down An it stop when I opened it back up about half way

 

[prezes13]

That means you are starving stove for air. Even stove running at 550. Your wood might be a bit on a wet side.

 

[Grisu]

I noticed smoke after i had shut my air down.The stove was running out about 550 and in it's coaling phase no smoke before I shut it down An it stop when I opened it back up about half way

Why is your stove already at the coaling stage when you shut the air down? Once your stove is over 500 F you can turn down the air to its final setting, which should give you plenty of secondary flames in the top of the firebox. There should only be heat waves coming from your chimney. When turning down the air makes the fire go out, you are not in the coaling stage but you are smoldering the fire.

 

[prezes13]

He had to have some wet wood in there I think. So it wasn't really coal stage it just wasn't burning yet. In coal stage there should be no smoke.

 

[logman742]

I had shut most of the air off way before then. I went ahead and pushed it in all the way and the pulled it back out about a quarter inch , Maybe I didn't understand the manual right on that part

 

[Chimney Smoke]

I have a 1750 as well. I'm on my second season with it and one thing I've learned is that I can't run it with the air fully closed. Even with very dry wood like poplar and pine I need to leave the air open about 1/2 inch to maintain good flue temps. With harder wood that's a little higher moisture content I need to leave the air open about an inch. Running like that I almost never see smoke from the chimney except for 20 minutes or so after a reload.