What to look for during burn. Got our new Osburn pumping out some serios heat Yee Hah

[chipster314]

I followed "Abhoth" method in this thread https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/32665/ and it sure takes off like hell.

I get it burning real good then I dampen it down to almsot closed. It seems if I close it all the way it starts to shut down. Do I want to see flames or just nice glowing red hot wood? I get it so the is some fire dancing around up near the inlet air tubes, I assume that is good.

10 Degrees F here and I got the place cooking at 73 in the room and keeping house warm.

Thanks

 

[chipster314]

here is a pic

infared temp guage is reading 482 just above door on main unit plating

 

[bluefrier]

Sounds good to me...however, you should always have flames in the firebox until the wood is reduced to coals.
Otherwise you will just be smoking up the neighborhood. (CAT stove excluded)

 

[Defiant]

:coolsmile: Nice burn, stay warm 450 to 550 isa good surface temp.

 

[akhilljack]

i live in fairbanks ak and it was almost 67 below for a couple days and has been in -40's for weeks until today it turned 40 above all the suden. the whole time it was real cold it was 90 in my house throughout my whole house. its about 3 bed rooms 1100 sqft plus the garage. i have an osburn 1600. i love it

 

[chipster314]

so once your down to the hot coals should be able to close it right down

 

[akhilljack]

i get mine up to between 450 and 550 on the stove top and then close it until the air control has about a pinky fingers width left to close, and close the damper in the pipe to about a 60 degree angle where it is alost closed and it will stay 500 for hours. i usualy put two logs in every 3 hours to keep it going. you will see flames up top until the logs are burned good. then just one small little flame near the logs for the rest of the time.

 

[Defiant]

Burn on It's gonna be cold tonight, another one of your famous Alberta clippers.

 

[Abhoth]

Well I'd say when you get down to coals you should have already gotten to the point of having the air shut down. Once you damper the air all the way down you should have a pretty good roil going still, but it'll be the slow-mo ghost flame burn. But result's are very dependent upon the type of wood and the seasoning of said wood... That initial burn with the air fully open for 5 or 10 (depending) is to get a good char on the wood and burn off any water ... all wood has a little. Using that method you should be able to close the air supply all the way down after about 15 or 20. But that does depend upon the wood, if it's pretty damp or wet and you shut down the air it might try and go out or smolder. Don't want smolder! ;-) So, if it tries to go out then open it up a bit, maybe an inch, and let it go for 5 and then try to close it down again. But if that picture you posted is with the air closed down then you're fine... speaking of... I'd better go stoke mine up a bit!

 

[Frank_enstein]

Now granted I'm new to getting my stove running but gettin there quick. I let my stove get going pretty well for about 20+ min then start shutting it down. Or if I'm gonna be doin something for a while i'll set the damper where I want it after I fill it back up and it might take awhile but it will get going really well in about 45 min or so. It seems to burn pretty well this way to if I set it just a little past closed it will be at about 475 on stovetop when I get back to stove and it will burn this way for about 5-6 hrs. Now I have a pretty big wood stove and set my wood n-s. I usually will have to be in before 4 hrs anyway for my cookstove. :wow:

 

[Abhoth]

And therein lies the rub Frank... all stoves are different, the wood's different, the moisture levels are different... all numbers can easily be expanded or contracted depending upon any number of different factors. The bottom line is how does the fire look and how much smoke is coming from the chimney, shut it down too quick and you'll be puffin' smoke instead of burning it so we all have to get to know our various stoves and the wood we're burning.

 

[burntime]

You will definitely wake up to a 85 degree house this spring when the weather changes Atleast once on each shoulder season I get er rippin and the weather changes. Way to go, you did what most people take a week to do because they are nervous about the stove temp!