Sounds like everything a Smart Stove Controller can do.
TurboJoe, Is this what you are referring to?
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Sounds like everything a Smart Stove Controller can do.
That's it, Mine should be here this week, stay tuned Dan has incorporated alot of nice features into his controller.TurboJoe, Is this what you are referring to?
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It's all in where you measure. You ideally want to monitor three temperatures, for operation of a catalytic stove:Keeping in mind that today marks the end of only the third week of me burning my stove, it occurs to me that having a cat stove complicates the automatic damper option. I'm seeing higher stove top temps when I close the damper down on a hot, loaded firebox. So without having a microchip to regulate based upon multiple parameters it seems that when the temp drops the damper opening might cause it to drop further, causing the damper to open wider. What am I missing?
Good stuff, keep us in the loop on your progress.I just implemented v1 of automating my draft control on my Buck 81 insert. Hopefully the pics show up below. I used a 12v linear actuator controlled by an Arduino microcomputer with a relay shield. Pretty easy coding, as I mimicked a stepped time delay similar to how I would manually (and slowly over 20 min or so) close the draft control. It works great! I have a button setup that initiates the sequences (basically starts a timer with delays built in to move the actuator). It's almost humorous to load wood, hit a button, and sit on the sofa and hear a electric motor turning on/of every 7 minutes or so. Mostly I did it because of the middle of the night wood loads. No more sitting around half asleep babysitting the control. I'm working on v2 now, which incorporates a push/pull cable. The cable will be attached to a fabricated bracket on the stove end, and the other end (about 4' away) will go to some sort of a case that will house the actuator, computer, power supplies and buttons.
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