OK, so now that I have a little more experience, I did a burn and collected data every 10 minutes. I did fiddle with the controls a bit, but this is about the best I can do. I am curious if the collective opinion is that this was a bad, decent (average), or good burn. It's about the best I have gotten so far, with my suspect wood. That is, just under 4 hrs useful burn. Still very far from getting a useful overnight, when I cannot fiddle as much as I did here, opening and closing the air control.
Attached some graphs also.
3 oak splits, 3 cherry splits. Total weight, 32 lbs. Loaded E-W, 2 in back, 2 in middle, one in front until 7:30
Started at 300F, after burning down most coals in front then spreading around before reloading
Outside Temp @ 6:50: 15F, Wind 10 mph, feels like 5F.
Outside Temp @10:30: 12F, Wind 10 mph, feels like 0F.
Stove Thermometer measures 415F in a 350F oven. I think stove top is ~150F hotter than where the thermometer
is, so thermometer should be measuring 85F less than actual top temps, since it is on the front of the insert.
Time Stove Temp House Temp Fan Speed Air control Fire status notes
6:50 300 66 low open front right only
7:00 300 66 low open front across to middle
7:10 360 67 low open full 2 rows
7:20 460 68 low open full all
7:30 485 70 low/high 3/8 full all Added 6th log. After going to 3/8, the flames died and temps started dropping, so increased to 5/8
7:40 450 68 low 5/8 light
7:50 490 68 low 5/8 light
8:00 525 69 low 5/8 same
8:10 545 69 low 1/2 same
8:20 510 69 low 1/2 same
8:30 475 68 low 1/2 lighter
8:40 450 68 low 5/8 very light Back two and top middle are whole but completely charcoaled---others have almost vanished into coals
8:50 410 67 low 5/8 same
9:00 400 67 low 5/8 same
9:10 360 67 low 3/4 same
9:20 350 67 low 3/4 same
9:30 340 66 low open same
9:40 325 66 low open almost none
9:50 300 66 low open almost none
10:00 290 65 low open none Pulled all remaining coals into pile at front
10:10 290 65 low open some
10:20 300 65 low open some Pulled coals together again
10:30 300 65 low open some
10:40 300 65 low open none Natural Gas fired up when temp dipped below 65F. Reload time.
Attached some graphs also.
3 oak splits, 3 cherry splits. Total weight, 32 lbs. Loaded E-W, 2 in back, 2 in middle, one in front until 7:30
Started at 300F, after burning down most coals in front then spreading around before reloading
Outside Temp @ 6:50: 15F, Wind 10 mph, feels like 5F.
Outside Temp @10:30: 12F, Wind 10 mph, feels like 0F.
Stove Thermometer measures 415F in a 350F oven. I think stove top is ~150F hotter than where the thermometer
is, so thermometer should be measuring 85F less than actual top temps, since it is on the front of the insert.
Time Stove Temp House Temp Fan Speed Air control Fire status notes
6:50 300 66 low open front right only
7:00 300 66 low open front across to middle
7:10 360 67 low open full 2 rows
7:20 460 68 low open full all
7:30 485 70 low/high 3/8 full all Added 6th log. After going to 3/8, the flames died and temps started dropping, so increased to 5/8
7:40 450 68 low 5/8 light
7:50 490 68 low 5/8 light
8:00 525 69 low 5/8 same
8:10 545 69 low 1/2 same
8:20 510 69 low 1/2 same
8:30 475 68 low 1/2 lighter
8:40 450 68 low 5/8 very light Back two and top middle are whole but completely charcoaled---others have almost vanished into coals
8:50 410 67 low 5/8 same
9:00 400 67 low 5/8 same
9:10 360 67 low 3/4 same
9:20 350 67 low 3/4 same
9:30 340 66 low open same
9:40 325 66 low open almost none
9:50 300 66 low open almost none
10:00 290 65 low open none Pulled all remaining coals into pile at front
10:10 290 65 low open some
10:20 300 65 low open some Pulled coals together again
10:30 300 65 low open some
10:40 300 65 low open none Natural Gas fired up when temp dipped below 65F. Reload time.