oldspark said:I was wondering about flue temp, does any one else do this and use the 250-300 range as a effieient burn range?Todd said:I watch my flue temps more than anything else. When she's cruising along in the 250-300 range I know my stove is operating efficiently and not sending too much wasted heat up the stack.
Yup . . . I would guess that when it comes to temps and monitoring the temps about 95% of the time I am running the stove with the flue temps . . . although in my case I'm most happy when the temps are 500-700 degrees since this is right in the middle of the 400-800 degree safe range on my probe thermometer (due to the double wall pipe). I tend to use this thermometer most often for determining when to start shutting the air control . . .
I still have the thermometer for the stove top, but since I added the soapstone topper I know it's not as accurate . . . it seems to show about 100 degrees less than the actual stove top temp . . . based on the readings from the IR thermometer . . . but of course that varies depending on if its reading from a cold start before the stone has had a chance to heat up or if it's been sitting there for quite some time.