Well I think sometimes, that has more to do with our radiant floor heat turning on sometime overnight and not from the residual stove heat the night before. Having a decent coal bed the next morning is good enough for me, but having no hot cols and starting over is not fun nor efficient.A bit more around managing expectations vs managing the stove.
We got a bit of a mild spell friday - almost hit the freezing point. Then temps dropped to @ -14 C again by Sunday morning, and the house was @ 65 deg when I woke up. I was quite happy with that, especially as we didn't load up for an overnight fire (house was very warm, lots of hot coals when we went to bed, so we just let it ride). Today it's down to -25 deg C - things are a bit different of course. The stove would get loaded up for bedtime for sure this week. Still we would likely wake up to mid - 60's in the a.m. I love the sound and feel of the fire roaring back to life when I reload the stove in the morning. Going from 65 to 70 is easy after that.
IMHO things should be consistent but only to a point - expectations should fall within a range especially with a tube stove. But if you're waking up to 68 deg that's not too shabby, something's right with that routine. Sounds like the stove is treating you well.
3hrs on a full load?
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Sorry - my bad - I thought you had enough coals for a restart. Not sure how big the firebox is in the Jotul, I have 2.2 cu ft I can get an easy restart after 8 or 9 hours if I load it up the night before and get it dialed in. If I had to do it over (with another tube stove), I'd likely go a bit bigger.
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I'm glad I read all these post as I thought I was burning poorly to with only getting 3-4 hrs of flames then mabe 3 hrs of coaling on my 13 with only a 1.8cu/ft box but sounds like it's going good. I wish I would looked into the cat stoves to those sound like where the burn times are at
Yeah kinda wished I looked into cat stoves as well although the jotul is working decent
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Yea mine is working great at keeping my house at a constant 75. But I was expecting 8hrs of flames I can keep a stove top of 600-700 for 3hrs or better
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought on single wall you double the surface temp,so your 350 is actually 700?
No its 350 the way he monitors it, surface temp is how many of us keep track of our single wall stove pipe.
Jdog
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That's how I run mine (single wall) and keep it around 350400 for cruse mode but run it to 5 if need be on start up and reloads
Jdog
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I am thinking of getting a condar probe for my flue but don't really know how practical it is on single wall but I'll still know exact temps.
Not sure what your point is, he said it was 350 on the single wall so its close to 700 internal.
Ok ..that's what I thought.
I guess you would have to read back to who he was replying to.
But yes I did think internal was roughly twice as much as the wall temp. But I was thrown off some by your reply.
I must not have read it right.
Had no idea what you were getting at as most of us regular posters know that now, although I did find some testing done by a lab and it was not the 2 to 1 reported here.
OK I read the thread and I see the confusion now, OP must have been talking internal and BWS was talking external.
dyerkutn
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Lately I have been thinking that monitoring the temps by the stovetop is a more reliable and useful way to go since the stove top would be the same whether a single or double wall pipe. Any thoughts? I see a lot of people talk about reloading when the stovetop is about 300.
Jdog
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I monitor both to. What do you think of useing a probe on my single wall oldspark?? Is it over kill or ok
I use both . . . and quite honestly probably rely more on my probe style thermo in my double wall pipe for running the stove more so than the stove thermometer.
Not sure I would call it over kill but I think I get a good idea with my surface mount, I do have a IR tester to see how far off they are.
I think BG said the probes were designed for double wall so you may have to be picky with which one you buy.
Jdog
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I have a IR gun as well but it use my stove pipe to get every thing in check of when to shut air and stuff just figured the probe would be 100% acc. In knowing what the real gasses were I know the whole double the surface reading just not that accurate
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