ive been burning now for 4 to 5 years now and for the most part I love it. The learning curve for me is something that took a lil bit longer as im in the eastern north and only burn 24/7 for like 4 months out the year maybe 5. It took a while to master the wood and mositure contents, getting shorted for cord deliveries and pretty much making a mess and smoke spillage into the house lol. I can def say im way better and have it down to a science now. But just when i think i got my wood good, mositure good, getting a good price for wood(now i get log length) and keeping the house much cleaner i started getting confused on the activity of the cat. I was always seeing the cat in the inactive zone so i was turning my stove up to keep it in the active zone. Which in turn i was burning the wood much faster.
I have been complaining about the cat being non active now for about 2 seasons but the stupidity was on my part, last year i got a flue thermometer probe but never replaced my cat probe thermometer. I even took it to the point where i called my dealer up asking for a cat replacement under warranty. After some trouble shooting with Fransisco at Blaze King we came to 3 areas that might need attention, 1 the cat, 2 the thermostat and 3 the cat probe. I checked 2 and orderd number 3 from condor. BOOOOOOOOM what a huuuggggeee difference.
All i can say is order a dam cat probe if you own a cat stove. I cannot believe why i did not do this earlier and I cannot beleive seeing temperature numbers makes all the difference when it comes to understanding the actual stove temperature itself. I feel like now i can now master my max burn times on my stove just for the fact that my last probe was broken.
So anyways get a new cat probe if yours is old and you will feel like your stove is brand new again
I have been complaining about the cat being non active now for about 2 seasons but the stupidity was on my part, last year i got a flue thermometer probe but never replaced my cat probe thermometer. I even took it to the point where i called my dealer up asking for a cat replacement under warranty. After some trouble shooting with Fransisco at Blaze King we came to 3 areas that might need attention, 1 the cat, 2 the thermostat and 3 the cat probe. I checked 2 and orderd number 3 from condor. BOOOOOOOOM what a huuuggggeee difference.
All i can say is order a dam cat probe if you own a cat stove. I cannot believe why i did not do this earlier and I cannot beleive seeing temperature numbers makes all the difference when it comes to understanding the actual stove temperature itself. I feel like now i can now master my max burn times on my stove just for the fact that my last probe was broken.
So anyways get a new cat probe if yours is old and you will feel like your stove is brand new again
