Loaded up stove to about 2/3 for overnight burn, put it on cat and tried to go to sleep, but kept getting up to check on it. (Kinda like puttin' th' baby to bed for the first week they come home--y'think you've got t'watch 'em sleep!) Stove was holding at just under 600 degrees. Air was at 1.0.
1-Noticed that where the manual shows to put the thermometer is 150 degrees cooler than up in the back, center corner.
Q-Is there some compelling reason for putting it over the combuster shield as opposed to the back, center corner? Seems to me I'm wasting 150 degrees of heat and several minutes of combustor time.
2-Got up at 0230 to check. Almost no flame, but very bright orange glow on the floor in front of the stove. Got down on floor and looked up through grill into combustor compartment. That thing was glowing bright orange!
Q-Is this okay or am I over cooking it?
2a-Little or no flame on wood, but little "flame people" kept running down from top of firebox and around all over the wood.
Q-Does this mean I'm doing something wrong?
3-When reloading stove manual says to open air and put cat in "off" position.
Q-When finished and closing door, if temp is still in cat range, should cat be put back on or not? If not, what should be done?
4-Heard sound like a gas flash (like when lighting a propane burner that has accumulated a little too much gas when it finally lights). I heard it in the bedroom, which is behind the wall the FP sits in with the stove in front of--not very far away.
Q-Any of y'all have such a noise from the cat engaging?
Left stove with no reload until 1430. Still enough coals to light it again right away when I put in some 4" diameter "logs".
1-Noticed that where the manual shows to put the thermometer is 150 degrees cooler than up in the back, center corner.
Q-Is there some compelling reason for putting it over the combuster shield as opposed to the back, center corner? Seems to me I'm wasting 150 degrees of heat and several minutes of combustor time.
2-Got up at 0230 to check. Almost no flame, but very bright orange glow on the floor in front of the stove. Got down on floor and looked up through grill into combustor compartment. That thing was glowing bright orange!
Q-Is this okay or am I over cooking it?
2a-Little or no flame on wood, but little "flame people" kept running down from top of firebox and around all over the wood.
Q-Does this mean I'm doing something wrong?
3-When reloading stove manual says to open air and put cat in "off" position.
Q-When finished and closing door, if temp is still in cat range, should cat be put back on or not? If not, what should be done?
4-Heard sound like a gas flash (like when lighting a propane burner that has accumulated a little too much gas when it finally lights). I heard it in the bedroom, which is behind the wall the FP sits in with the stove in front of--not very far away.
Q-Any of y'all have such a noise from the cat engaging?
Left stove with no reload until 1430. Still enough coals to light it again right away when I put in some 4" diameter "logs".