I turned down my cat stove last night - damper almost all the way closed for an overnight burn. Left the stove with a glowing cat and a full firebox of wood, no flames visible, a few glowing coals in the bottom. After 8 or so hours, the stove had a nice bed of coals left over and the glass was colored medium to light brown.
Threw a few splits on, opened the damper up and in no time the stove was cranking out serious heat again and the brown burned off the glass fairly quickly.
With the temperature moderating a bit, I am going to try this type of burn and see what kind of build-up I may get doing it.
My question is - if the glass is turning brown on a smoldering fire, how much creosote, if any, is getting by the cat? I'm thinking that very little if any since the cat is fired-off and glowing. Since there is not a lot of air volume moving through the stove due to the low damper setting and the cat is glowing, the creosote is being burned. The colder glass and stove sides are where any lingering creosote may condensate out as the smoke swirels around the firebox waiting to go through the cat.
Just courious - anyone have a cat stove with a dirty glass, but a clean chimney with these ultra low burns?
Any Woodstock owners burned their cat stoves with the damper closed all the way with a cat glowing? I haven't tried this yet - but it's tempting.
Thanks!
Bill
Threw a few splits on, opened the damper up and in no time the stove was cranking out serious heat again and the brown burned off the glass fairly quickly.
With the temperature moderating a bit, I am going to try this type of burn and see what kind of build-up I may get doing it.
My question is - if the glass is turning brown on a smoldering fire, how much creosote, if any, is getting by the cat? I'm thinking that very little if any since the cat is fired-off and glowing. Since there is not a lot of air volume moving through the stove due to the low damper setting and the cat is glowing, the creosote is being burned. The colder glass and stove sides are where any lingering creosote may condensate out as the smoke swirels around the firebox waiting to go through the cat.
Just courious - anyone have a cat stove with a dirty glass, but a clean chimney with these ultra low burns?
Any Woodstock owners burned their cat stoves with the damper closed all the way with a cat glowing? I haven't tried this yet - but it's tempting.
Thanks!
Bill