New stove PE Summit and am learning the ropes. When I reload the stove with 3 splits of 2 year old sycamore, full air, the splits take off and my stack temp starts going up fast, from say 250 to 400 in about 2 or 3 minutes and I have to start backing it down or the stack will go above 500 in no time. This stove with full air acts like my old stove with an open ash pan. I do not have the ash pan on this stove. The stove does respond well to air control adjustment, I have had no problems controlling it. It just seems to get really hot, really quick. With the 3 good sized splits I have only been able to get the Stove up to 500 degrees, I thought it would get hotter with the way it burns. So I guess my questions are:
1. Is it normal for the stove to take off so fast on reload? If I had a leak somewhere, I wouldn't think I would be able to control it so well.
2. Can I reload with air control at half setting instead of full?
3. Is the 500 degree stove top what it should be with 3 splits in it. I have not been brave enough to put more than that in there because I am afraid of how hot the stack may get on the initial reload. I plan on loading 4 splits tomorrow morning and see how it goes.
Been cruising at 500 degrees for about an hour and a half with the air set just below the L but not shut all the way down. I assume I have secodaries burning since there are flames in the top of the box but no flames out of the air injection holes themselves.
Thanks for any suggestions.
1. Is it normal for the stove to take off so fast on reload? If I had a leak somewhere, I wouldn't think I would be able to control it so well.
2. Can I reload with air control at half setting instead of full?
3. Is the 500 degree stove top what it should be with 3 splits in it. I have not been brave enough to put more than that in there because I am afraid of how hot the stack may get on the initial reload. I plan on loading 4 splits tomorrow morning and see how it goes.
Been cruising at 500 degrees for about an hour and a half with the air set just below the L but not shut all the way down. I assume I have secodaries burning since there are flames in the top of the box but no flames out of the air injection holes themselves.
Thanks for any suggestions.