Went to load it up for the night yesterday evening, was down to coals, around 350°F. I probably didnt need to leave the door cracked (I do when its cooler) but out of habit I left it cracked just for 1, maybe 2 minutes until visible flame had half way engulfed the new load. Closed it up and went into the other room to load the other stove up. After loading the other stove I was going to sit down and read a magazine while waiting for the stoves to come up to temperature. Realizing I hadnt set my little timer I pressed the button before sitting down. I have had it set to 10 minutes but after fumbling with it in the dark a few days ago it got set to twelve minutes, I didnt really think much of it and went with 12. After reading a bit of Organic Gardening I heard a bit of a thwack from the Rockland and went out to look. After staring at it a second, it looks as though a couple pieces shifted and banged against the glass (nothing broke, just figuring thats what made the big thwack). It seemed awfully hot though, and a whole lot more flames then I am used to so I shut the air down 75% closed and grabbed the IR gun. First readings were showing in the 800's! Closer to the center I was finding some hot spots up to 940°. I shut the air as low as it goes. I looked inside and it appeared the baffle was just starting to glow towards the front edge in a few spots, but couldnt tell anything else was glowing. It was difficult to see, there was a whole lot of flames going on up there. I've heard just opening the door a way (not just cracked) helps cool things down with a lot of room temperature air, but thats hard to do when two pieces fully engulfed in flames are sitting against the glass. After a few minutes of watching the baffle glow I got out the poker and opened to door, I was going to hold the pieces back with a poker but they actually didnt seem to move after openeing but I held the poker on em anyhow. Wasnt sure if I should just leave it open, I ended up opening and closing a few times on a couple minute interval. Once the baffle was no longer glowing I felt much better, I dont know if there has ever officially been an overfire temp established for the stove but I recall reading a few times as long as nothing is glowing your ok. So once nothing was glowing I let it be, was still showing stovetop temps peaking in the low to mid 800's and mid 700's further to the sides.
There was about a minute left on the timer when the bang happened so it went from 300's to 900's in 11 minutes plus the time I loaded the other stove, probably 12-13 minutes. This is my first season with this stove but never seen that fast of temperature rise before!
The highest stove top temps I've recorded before were mid to upper 700's. I had not ever seen even 800° before and I just blew right through that mark. I've not been involved with overfiring before, hopefully nothing was damaged. Too bad it happened just after installed my insulated block off plate, before the block off plate I am sure it would have cooled down a little easier!
Also, I now see why some have said having an uncontrollable secondary air that always runs wide open can be a bad thing. I've heard of folks stuffing rags and what not into the secondary air intakes, but I can not find anything on this stove for secondary air. Does anyone know?
There was about a minute left on the timer when the bang happened so it went from 300's to 900's in 11 minutes plus the time I loaded the other stove, probably 12-13 minutes. This is my first season with this stove but never seen that fast of temperature rise before!
The highest stove top temps I've recorded before were mid to upper 700's. I had not ever seen even 800° before and I just blew right through that mark. I've not been involved with overfiring before, hopefully nothing was damaged. Too bad it happened just after installed my insulated block off plate, before the block off plate I am sure it would have cooled down a little easier!
Also, I now see why some have said having an uncontrollable secondary air that always runs wide open can be a bad thing. I've heard of folks stuffing rags and what not into the secondary air intakes, but I can not find anything on this stove for secondary air. Does anyone know?