I fired-up the Keystone tonight for a small shoulder season burn - just to knock off the chill through morning.
Loaded the stove with some pine vs my normal oak and interestingly enough while in cat bypass, I was getting secondaries with a stove top at 105 degrees, so I engaged the cat and it lit off! So much for 200 or 250 degrees stove top temps before engaging the cat. I think it is good that I've got the newer stainless steel cat as tonigh's low temp light-off could have been some serious thermal shock for the ceramic ones.
So - within a few seconds of engaging the cat, it started glowing orange - like a bright light. Like a bright no smoking light as no smoke is going out the chimney, just a nice clean low temp burn.
Nice.
Thanks,
Bill
Loaded the stove with some pine vs my normal oak and interestingly enough while in cat bypass, I was getting secondaries with a stove top at 105 degrees, so I engaged the cat and it lit off! So much for 200 or 250 degrees stove top temps before engaging the cat. I think it is good that I've got the newer stainless steel cat as tonigh's low temp light-off could have been some serious thermal shock for the ceramic ones.
So - within a few seconds of engaging the cat, it started glowing orange - like a bright light. Like a bright no smoking light as no smoke is going out the chimney, just a nice clean low temp burn.
Nice.
Thanks,
Bill