Have a Clydesdale insert. Second season using it and enjoy it quite a bit. Am still trying to understand the idea of not overfiring the insert. So have a temp gauge just behind the grate. Also have IR gun. Hearthstone mentions not to regularly go above 600. I can get there pretty quickly and can maintain a temp in the 550-650 pretty easily. Every now and then it jumps up to 650-700 even with damper shut down.
my question is, if I up the fan and things cool down to say 550, is the fan just cooling the surface temperature and could the firebox still be “too hot”? The other night I used the IR gun to measure just below the grate where Hearthstone says to measure. With fan on fairly high the temp read around 550. Bower I tried the IR gun on a dark area of the glass and it read much higher— maybe 650. Also tried point gun at a log and it registered over 700. So if the fan helps bring down the surface temp is that all I need to worry about?
my question is, if I up the fan and things cool down to say 550, is the fan just cooling the surface temperature and could the firebox still be “too hot”? The other night I used the IR gun to measure just below the grate where Hearthstone says to measure. With fan on fairly high the temp read around 550. Bower I tried the IR gun on a dark area of the glass and it read much higher— maybe 650. Also tried point gun at a log and it registered over 700. So if the fan helps bring down the surface temp is that all I need to worry about?
