Second time posting, and new to wood stoves since we bought this house 3 years ago.
I just wanted to share what I just started using to monitor my wood stove double wall pipe temperatures with my phone. I didn’t want to mess with a raspberry Pi or other DIY thing. Just wanted something that worked and was less than $150.
I ordered this SafeSense TempTouch 1 channel thermocouple sensor from Amazon https://a.co/d/8znr4PU for $100+tax. I couldn’t find the same exact one without the probe included (other models don’t have the holes for connecting a sensor) . This probe is a beaded type probe with a lower temperature range that wouldn’t work for stovepipe so do not try that. Repurpose or discard the included probe.
For the stove pipe probe, I ordered from auber, the k type probe with the mini connector. $20 plus shipping ($10 from Florida to WA) https://www.auberins.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=291
I got the probe installed late last night, and built a fire in the stove today. The setup worked perfectly! I’m very pleased. It’s possible to set alerts but I haven’t used that yet.
The little blue glow on the ceiling in the second photo is from the temp touch unit, which is plugged in. It has a battery but if it’s plugged in you can refresh the temperature reading in the app anytime you want. Otherwise the most frequently it checks the temperature is every 15 min to save battery. I installed the probe on the backside of the stovepipe and I like that I can’t even see any of the extra stuff looking straight at the stove alcove.
Wood stove is a 20+ year old Country Stove ST310. It was looking pretty rough when we bought the house 3 years ago. We had it repainted 😍, and I purchased a new fan with thermostat for it last year. The year before, I figured out that the secondary burn tubes weren’t installed correctly and the firebrick was also not installed per instructions. Got new baffle bricks and blanket and replaced broken firebricks and reinstalled. I love watching the fire dance (see short slow motion clip, if it works).
I just wanted to share what I just started using to monitor my wood stove double wall pipe temperatures with my phone. I didn’t want to mess with a raspberry Pi or other DIY thing. Just wanted something that worked and was less than $150.
I ordered this SafeSense TempTouch 1 channel thermocouple sensor from Amazon https://a.co/d/8znr4PU for $100+tax. I couldn’t find the same exact one without the probe included (other models don’t have the holes for connecting a sensor) . This probe is a beaded type probe with a lower temperature range that wouldn’t work for stovepipe so do not try that. Repurpose or discard the included probe.
For the stove pipe probe, I ordered from auber, the k type probe with the mini connector. $20 plus shipping ($10 from Florida to WA) https://www.auberins.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=291
I got the probe installed late last night, and built a fire in the stove today. The setup worked perfectly! I’m very pleased. It’s possible to set alerts but I haven’t used that yet.
The little blue glow on the ceiling in the second photo is from the temp touch unit, which is plugged in. It has a battery but if it’s plugged in you can refresh the temperature reading in the app anytime you want. Otherwise the most frequently it checks the temperature is every 15 min to save battery. I installed the probe on the backside of the stovepipe and I like that I can’t even see any of the extra stuff looking straight at the stove alcove.
Wood stove is a 20+ year old Country Stove ST310. It was looking pretty rough when we bought the house 3 years ago. We had it repainted 😍, and I purchased a new fan with thermostat for it last year. The year before, I figured out that the secondary burn tubes weren’t installed correctly and the firebrick was also not installed per instructions. Got new baffle bricks and blanket and replaced broken firebricks and reinstalled. I love watching the fire dance (see short slow motion clip, if it works).
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