Long time reader here first time posting hope you can help me out.
This is my second season with my blaze king sirroco 30.1 and it's worked great till a few weeks ago. I reload the stove onto hotcoals let it roar with bypass open than when I close the bypass the flames really die down sometimes just get the secondary explosion of flames than the black box which is familiar at a lower setting. Checked the chimney seems alright ,vacuumed the face of the cat and back behind it which seemed to help a little bit but still not great. I doubt its the cat cause it still glows and burn time and emissions are good at my cruising setting. Has anyone else had this issue the only thing I can think it could possibly be is the thermostat is not opening all the way. I'm used to getting the stove top up to 700-750 on my temp gun in fairly short order now after an hour it barely creeps past 500. Temps rise once I actually turn the stat down and cat really heats up. Thanks for any help.
This is my second season with my blaze king sirroco 30.1 and it's worked great till a few weeks ago. I reload the stove onto hotcoals let it roar with bypass open than when I close the bypass the flames really die down sometimes just get the secondary explosion of flames than the black box which is familiar at a lower setting. Checked the chimney seems alright ,vacuumed the face of the cat and back behind it which seemed to help a little bit but still not great. I doubt its the cat cause it still glows and burn time and emissions are good at my cruising setting. Has anyone else had this issue the only thing I can think it could possibly be is the thermostat is not opening all the way. I'm used to getting the stove top up to 700-750 on my temp gun in fairly short order now after an hour it barely creeps past 500. Temps rise once I actually turn the stat down and cat really heats up. Thanks for any help.
