VC Aspen C3 (2023) Can’t Heat Small Room

[30WCF]

11:45 Im sitting at 70 in the hall, 580 STT and the pine is chewing the coals up. By the time this pine is ready for a reload I’ll just have nice ash in the bottom.
Outside them is 34 at the moment.

 

[30WCF]

Get some pine for next year. I know you have plenty of it in SC.
I got busy doing my work and phone calls and forgot about the stove till I heard the furnace kick on. So, in about the last 5 hrs, the rest of the hardwood coals and those two pine splits disappeared. Granted, it’s probably not been pushing much heat for the last couple hours either, but I raked it around and it lit right off with a piece of pine and a half a holly log. Pulled the coals up in a pile up front, and there is a flat bed of ash in the back.

Point being in my area, if I only ever collected pine from here on out, it wouldn’t bother me. Pine will heat hot and fast, and reduce coals to nothing. The C3 is not a passive stove. You have to tend it every 3-5 hrs for best results. I can put a beast of a log in for an overnight burn, but you’ll wake up to 120 STT if you sleep 8 hrs.

Good luck. Let me know if you have any questions.

 

[meagloth]

Someone mentioned cleaning the front air vent stack right by the door. I actually checked that before all this and it was very clean. I don’t have any pine or softwood to burn right now but that is a good tip to help with the ash.
I think I will have to wait till the season is over to pull it out of the brick alcove and screw around with the inner workings. It’s not great but it’s better than nothing and I don’t want to put it out of commission on the middle of winter. It’s sounds like no one has a good video/picture/diagram of how the innards are meant to go together, so when I do that I will try to make a quick YouTube video and post an update.

 

[meagloth]

Pine loaded up, I gave it a few minutes of air to get it going good, then I closed the door. The thermostat around the corner in the hall is 68*F a 30 minutes in.

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Pictures and descriptions you have posted here look and sound very similar to how I would run it. Seems like yours just gets a good bit hotter than mine.

 

[meagloth]

Well it was 16 outside over night last night and we woke up to a 57 degree house. The fire has burned all the way down from the big log we put in at 10pm. If it’s gonna stay cold this week I might have to get up in the night and stoke it. Curious if keeping it running will actually warm the house at all. Was 68 when we went to bed at 11.

 

[stoveliker]

But you can't really expect to have one big split keep your home warm enough over a night...?
Only do many BTUs in a volume of wood.

 

[bigealta]

I fully loaded my f400 with 3 year oak and 4 year locust about 3 times in that same time frame. When it's this cold that's the deal.