40 foot chimney

[riverat]

Gaining more knowledge about my NC-30 and the 40 foot chimmey it's hooked up to, I get about 2 1/2 maybe 3 hours of burn time on the wood stacked tight in the box with only 1 to 2 inch clearance from the secondary pipes ,my single wall flue pipe will read close to the stove top temp with the flue damper 3/4 shut, I can get 480 to 575 degrees of stove top heat for about 1 1/2 hours before coaling stage gets to where I have to reload, I do have bad coaling when it's time to reload the stove for the 3rd time in one day to try and keep the heat at a 500 + for longer periods of time, I think I am going to have to live with the bad coaling that I get after each load . I want to make a special thank you to Mike at Englander stove Company for giving me his patience on many occasion with the phone calls that I had with him,he surly made sure I understood what he was explaining on helping me achieve better results on my quest to performance of wood burning with the Eng 30 stove, also a thank you for all of you folks that posted your remarks on my post, hopefully in the future I can make the coaling chunks a lot less and have more ash after each load

Thanks again

Jeff

 

[mellow]

Wow, that thing must be a vacuum, I never thought I would say this but I wonder if a Magic Heat would help capture some of that heat going out?

 

[Hoozie]

I remember a thread from a while back where the guy also had an abnormally tall chimney. He was able to control the stove better after covering some of the rectangular secondary air intake on the back/bottom of the stove with a magnet. Essentially doing the same thing as a key damper, but focused on the secondary air.

 

[begreen]

Sounds like an improvement. Try running with the key damper all the way closed or perhaps put in a second key damper.

 

[riverat]

Hoozie, I blocked off half of the secondary air port underneath with a magnet like you posted, my flames slowed down and my last reload is still reading 500 degrees after 2 hours and the splits don't seem to be glowing as much, I sure would be a gods blessing if that help some in the big chunks a coaling, will post a update later



Thanks. Again

Jeff