What is your max external stove pipe stack temperature that you are comfortable with?
When crusing, what is your stove stack pipe temp?
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Thanks!
Bill
When crusing, what is your stove stack pipe temp?
Just courious.
Thanks!
Bill
I like to run it in the "safe" zone on the thermometer (surface mount) 250 to 500 after fire has settled in, I dont worry too much on the over shoots on reload and start up (650 or so), and when the fire is dying the temps get lower that the 250 but that in not a problem either.leeave96 said:What is your max external stove pipe stack temperature that you are comfortable with?
When crusing, what is your stove stack pipe temp?
Just courious.
Thanks!
Bill
madison said:bill,
magnetic on the stack? Dbl wall or single wall? --> makes a big difference. sorta like guessing the outdoor temperature with an indoor thermometer.... Though some would (will) argue with that. FYI I can hold my hand for hrs on my class a pipe while the stove top is 800.
Battenkiller said:I'm comfortable with 650º... as long as I'm standing nearby. Beyond that things can suddenly runaway if there is enough fuel in the box. I've watched on several occasions as the flue temp suddenly skyrocketed from 650º to pinned on the gauge, and the dang thermometer sliding down the pipe because it lost its magnetism. That happens somewhere around 900º. It happened so many times last year there's a trail rubbed down the front of the pipe, but I've got a better handle on it this year. I'm never comfortable with flue temps pushing 900º. That's freaky hot, and my PBF (Panic Button Finger) starts to twitch all of a sudden.
Thankfully with my stove and install, things always quite down shortly after I close the bypass damper. I've never had a true runaway fire because, with the bypass closed, the flame path switches from a short vertical path through the stack of wood to a 55" serpentine horizontal path that starts at the bottom and winds its way upward. That restrictive flame path just kills a runaway draft.
HotCoals said:Why don't you engage the cat sooner before the flue temps get way high like that..900 °