Nubie here. I only have an air control on my R14, no damper. Do I shut the air all the way down, because when i do that usually the temp rises, but when I open the air all the way it starts to cool down. Just wanted to get a "best practice".
Ramon Bow said:how many people here are comforable if thier burn tubes glow red? It has happened and i do not like it. I usually shut the air off as much as i can and wait for it to cool off a bit. I may make a foil "plug" to stop the secondary air and may also get an additional fan to blow on the stove.
ControlFreak said:When you speak of a stove getting hotter and hotter, you MUST measure just how HOT is is. The EPA stoves are not like the pre EPA stoves. They do burn MUCH hotter than pre EPA. That's why they have a lining of firebrick. Inside that firebox is going to look like a nuclear reactor during the middle of the burn, and if you're accustomed to the dark, smouldering fires of the old stoves, then you're going to think you're overfiring the stove.
An EPA stove, when it approaches its operating temperature, will continue to get hotter because there's a tremendous amount of smoke being generated and the secondaries are burning that smoke. Many stoves have no control over the secondary air, but they control the air that's spraying in at the bottom on the wood. The idea is that they want to burn all of the smoke and they control how much smoke is generated by how much to blow on the wood.
If the draft control is fully closed, and the stove continues to get hotter, relax. This is normal. Now if the exterior of the stove starts to glow, yes you know for sure that are are overfiring. If not, enjoy the fire and get acquainted with more heat than you were expecting. It's perfectly normal for some interior parts to glow red or even orange.
If your stove exterior is reaching 800F, then yea, that's hotter than you need to be, but its still not something to get alarmed with. Just start closing off your draft control a little bit earlier next time.
I hope this helps.
pulldownclaw said:I posted something about the tubes glowing awhile back and somebody said that they're stainless steel, rated up to some ridiculous temp, and that glowing is no problem at all. Unfortunately, I've had the top of my stove glow a few times as well, and that's what I believe is referred to as overfiring. :red:
The one question I would ask is this: Are you running the blower? If you’re not running the blower, then I wouldn’t be surprised if it glows.
As for the burn tubes glowing, yes they are made out of stainless steel, and I do think that they are designed to glow. The inside baffle of my napoleon will glow orange, and this is desirable. It serves as an ignitor to keep the secondary combustion burning ALL of the smoke. I must admit that the HI300 is my first stove with the common burn tubes, but I haven’t been able to fire it up yet. But looking at how the holes are oriented in the burn tubes, I’d be surprised if the tubes DID NOT glow. Good grief, each tube is sitting in front of a blow torch.
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