I just wanted to chime in and let everyone know that I finally have my stove in and some cool weather to break it in after many yrs of waiting to get it and months to get it installed. Today I'm having my second fire and I couldn't be more amazed at the performance of this stove. I have read the whole manual several times as suggested on this forum, and everything has went perfect. No smoke at all in the house when loading, good draft, stovetop right now running 350 and slowly climbing after 2.5 hours of burning, lots of windows open, and a beautiful slow flame. Going to keep it going all day since we will mostly be outside, for a good breakin. This stove held heat all night on my first fire with just a few pieces of wood, now I know its not up north and really cold but I am still very impressed, it is been everything I had hoped for and much more.I just have a few questions, I am having a little trouble keeping flames after engaging the combustor and shutting the damper down to the recommended setting of 1 or below. I am burning well seasoned Oak,about 8 yrs seasoned. Also, I haven't loaded the stove up yet because of breakin but I can't seem to get the stove top above 350, It was climbing earlier this morning but now it is started to fall, any suggestions would be appreciated.