10-12k? really? thats not long. I burn from Oct to June so that's a couple of years for me as well. I was thinking my wood (softwood) was too dry but i don't think you can have wood that is too dry. Gonna have to visit the dealership and see about a new Cat, hopefully under warranty. Thanks guys.
A good test to see if your cat is worn is to load the stove up, get a good char and make sure the cat probe is within the active range, turn the t-stat to 3 o'clock and then wait, the cat probe should rise to noon, if it gets to noon on a full load and holds then your good to go, if it gets to noon then falls to the inactive / active line while the are large coals or even pieces of wood burning then the cat is shot.
Really? I had the impression that cats were consumable items. Sure, if it's defective and only lasts 1000 hrs, but after 10k hours I really don't see it as a warranty case as the cat obviously did its job.
Kennyp, it would not hold position when thermo was set to 3:00 so I think this is last bit of confirmation I need that the Cat is burnt. I'll head to my dealer tomorrow to see about getting a new one under warranty. Thanks everyone again.
Great point Canada has different rules... I'll elaborate on my 1st message, the epa before certifying wants a locked in emission rate of X amount of time (hourly on a unit) with wood stoves its figured 8 years on a single cat to have emissions at or below the 2012 rate, BK extended the warrantee to 10 years because they took an average of all their customers and figured maybe 15 - 25% of us are hard core and within the US, the rest of the owners are either batch burners or out of country, either way us people here on this website are the anomaly and not in a bad way either.
@bholler has similar observations and personal experience with a lot of stoves. Hope he responds.
My Chimney is 23 feet tall, The stove seems to be working great The princess is a great Stove but for my needs I'm asking too much out of it. I'm not sure if a non cat stove would even be better, just looking for someone who has a similar situation. My house is around 2600 square feet, I need a stove that can push more btu than a princess and still get an 8 hour burn.
Wow a 3.65 fire box can handle a 24 inch log and still on a 6 inch flue. That is impressive.
Do you have a way to measure stack temps? I’ve got 25 feet of stack and we just went through another period of -10 to -22 below zero with the princess.
I don't have a way to measure stack temps, However over firing has never been an issue. I do notice a much stronger draft when the wind is strong, my solution is to lower the thermostat. A king would be the ideal stove for my situation, the princess works 7 out of 10 days on average. I don't mind a hot reload at 2AM but when your gone at work for 8-10 hours is when things get tricky.
